Archive: 12/1999
1999-12-01
- Police attack protesters at Seattle WTO meeting
- Molson brewery workers occupy Ontario plant
- US releases Egyptian jailed for three years on secret evidence
- The humanity of Van Dyck
- Fresh evidence that NATO's bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade was deliberate
- Australian union joins building companies to win contracts in East Timor
- New York City Ballet musicians on strike
- Stage set for a clash between Free Aceh supporters and Indonesian security forces
1999-12-02
- Arrests of protesters at WTO meeting in Seattle near 500
- Nationals defeated in New Zealand elections
- Four miners killed in Australian mine disaster
- Comedy, despair, isolation
- British police attack anti-WTO protesters in London
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- US Department of Agriculture report shows 10.5 million households without adequate food
1999-12-03
- Clinton interview sparks warnings of WTO split
- The plausible and the implausible in Carolyn Chute's Snow Man
- At least seven dead in second worst rail disaster in Australia's history
- Nawaz Sharif faces possible death sentence in Pakistan court
- PKK leader Ocalan's fate remains undecided after death sentence upheld by Turkish appeals court
- Power devolved to Northern Ireland Assembly
- Washington Post Online echoes official line on Chinese embassy bombing
- First complete privatisation of a Local Education Authority in Britain
- Letters on the Nathaniel Abraham verdict
- More readers write in on the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash
1999-12-04
- Some interesting films on US television, December 4-10
- Australian teachers oppose worsening conditions in new NSW award
- Political instability in Catalan region of Spain following election losses for ruling party
- Canada: Federal government to change rules on Quebec secession
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Financial scandal envelops former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
- 18,000 jobs threatened in Scottish take-over bid for National Westminster Bank
1999-12-06
1999-12-07
- Thailand expels thousands of Burmese immigrant workers
- David Lynch's compassion
- Letter on the conditions of children in Pakistani prisons
- Malaysian election results a blow to the Mahathir government
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Indian government to accelerate pro-investor "reform"with Congress backing
- A comment on Freudianism and Marxism
- Six die in Detroit house fire
- City University of New York to exclude thousands of students
- Assassination of Islamist opposition leader destabilises Algeria
1999-12-08
- The collapse of the WTO talks: What this means for global capitalism
- US Supreme Court to consider reversing Miranda decision
- German SPD conference strikes a new note in foreign policy
- Pope's visit to India exacerbates tensions in BJP-led government
- Army massacres civilians and police shoot to kill in Nigeria
- Sri Lanka: LTTE's support tilts towards UNP presidential candidate
- Social conditions and tensions in the US take their toll
- Disenchantment dominates Chilean election campaign
- A metaphor for post-Soviet Russia
- Sentencing postponed for 13-year-old Michigan youth convicted of murder
1999-12-09
- Young boy acquitted of manslaughter
- Bitter contest in Sri Lankan presidential elections
- Thousands rally in defense of the homeless in New York
- Workers Struggles: Europe and the Middle East
- A mind so open that the brain fell out
- A letter on the WTO talks
- Mad Cow Disease inquiry reveals how British government protected pharmaceutical companies at expense of public health
- Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat clamps down on his critics
1999-12-10
- Dozens of Sri Lankan refugees killed in artillery attack on church
- Britain extends diplomatic recognition to Libya
- Military chiefs call the shots in the Indonesian cabinet
- Detroit museum controversy: Censored artist defends his exhibit
- More on Freudianism and Marxism
- Britain demands swift action against France over beef ban
- Despite new treatments, world AIDS deaths continue to rise
1999-12-11
- Some interesting films on US television, December 11-17
- Growing social divide in Britain
- One in eight South Africans HIV-positive
- Australian government pressures Timor refugees to leave
- Blair government refuses public inquiry into deaths in police custody
- The Nathaniel Abraham case and the conditions facing Michigan's children
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A reader writes in on the Malaysian elections
- Chilean President revives labour reforms in bid to win votes
- Nuclear saber-rattling from Yeltsin as Chechen War intensifies
1999-12-13
- Clinton lectures the world on labor standards—but what is the state of workers' rights in America?
- Former Bauhaus student speaks in Liverpool and Sheffield
- Britain's further education cuts cause working class students to drop out
- Spratlys continue to loom as Asian flashpoint
- Sri Lanka plantation workers hit by declining wages and conditions after privatisation
- Amazons of the avant-garde—an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London until February 6
1999-12-14
- New York transit workers prepare for December 15 contract expiration
- Incoming Labour Prime Minister rules out immediate rises in pensions and wages in New Zealand
- Frankfurt intends to "go it alone" in creating pan-European stock exchange
- US protests demand freedom for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Three prisoners set to die December 14 as US executions near 100 for the year
- Helsinki summit marks aggressive turn by Europe
- Cuban child sacrificed to right-wing political agenda
1999-12-15
- Mounting concern over failure of World Trade Organisation talks
- The Worcester fire and the social crisis in America
- JVP enters Sri Lankan election with an eye to a deal with the major parties
- German SPD party congress: united without a perspective
- Mehring Books Holiday Offer
- Italian officials ignored tenants' complaints in apartment building collapse
- Australia: new Labor government in Victoria defends Kennett's gagging laws in the Supreme Court
- Sacked Australian teacher wins significant victory
- Cuban detainees take hostages at Louisiana jail
1999-12-16
- WSWS reporters visit refugee camps in the war-ravaged north of Sri Lanka
- Croatian President Franjo Tudjman dies
- In wake of anti-strike injunction, New York transit union accepts tentative contract
- Two-tier system in New York City parks
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- US brokers Syria-Israel talks
- Indian tea estate workers still on strike after six months
- "The heart and soul of country music is the experiences of ordinary people"
1999-12-17
- Australian Labor Party wins safe Liberal seat in Victorian by-election
- Token compensation for some victims of forced labour under the Nazis
- Inexcusable
- Memphis jury finds that a conspiracy led to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
- British Labour government intensifies attacks on asylum-seekers
- Sri Lankan government cuts funding for vital drugs in public hospitals
- La decision de ETA de poner fin al alto el fuego provoca una crisis política en España
- The Jamie Bulger killing: European Court rules that two 11-year-olds tried as adults did not receive fair trial
1999-12-18
- Some interesting films on US television, December 18-24
- Russia on the eve of the Duma elections
- Canada's political elite supports law to impede Quebec secession
- US indicts Taiwanese-American target of nuclear espionage furor
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Signs of political instability as South Korean government prepares for next year's election
- Election violence escalates as polling date nears in Sri Lanka
- Two Cuban detainees surrender in Louisiana jail standoff
- Rightwing could form government in Chile after presidential election
- Paul Cadmus dies at 94
1999-12-20
1999-12-21
- Venezuela: Pervasive poverty compounds human disaster from floods and mudslides
- UNP sniffs a possible win in the Sri Lanka presidential election
- Sri Lankan election leaves Tamil parties in complete disarray
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- "Reform" of US tax agency has led to decline in audits of the wealthy
- The end of the dole "as we know it" in Australia
- Sri Lankan President Kumaratunga narrowly escapes assassination by suicide bomber
1999-12-22
- Defection of Conservative MP spotlights rightward lurch of Britain's Labour government
- Pro-government forces make gains in elections to Russian Duma
- Portuguese colonial rule over Macau ends after 442 years
- Do nostalgia and serious purpose mix?
- Welfare cuts hit co-operative jobs in Sri Lanka
- Panama Canal handover no end to US sway
1999-12-23
- Artists organise against artistic censorship in Berlin
- Kumaratunga's narrow election win sets stage for further instability in Sri Lanka
- Trial in Amadou Diallo killing is moved out of New York City
- Sri Lankan unions divide health workers over the color of uniforms
- Letters to the World Socialist Web Site
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- David Walsh names his favorite films of the year and the decade
- Former IMF deputy to stand in Côte d'Ivoire presidential elections
- Chilean Socialist Party candidate backtracks on abortion policy
1999-12-24
- Some interesting films on US television, December 25-31
- Australian Labor helps deliver a "tax jackpot for investors"
- Striking Karachi newspaper workers appeal for support
- Elderly patients being left to die in British hospitals
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Korean Air jumbo jet crashes near London
- Chilean teachers send message of support to victimised Australian teacher
- "Freedom of speech must be defended"
- American historian C. Vann Woodward dies: an interview with Civil War historian James McPherson on Woodward's contribution
1999-12-29
- Fierce fighting around key northern military base in Sri Lanka
- National Gallery of Australia cancels Sensation exhibition
- Student loans report aimed at holding together Scottish coalition government
- Surveys show significant growth in British Internet use
- The rehabilitation of Gustav Gründgens
- Europe ravaged by record storms—more than 100 dead
- Study finds "indisputable" link between BSE/"Mad Cow Disease" and CJD in humans
- Australian unions call strikes as BHP shifts to individual contracts
1999-12-30
- Arrests made in India over screening of film on the Manjolai massacre
- What lies behind the German Christian Democrats' financial scandal?
- Favorite artists, works and performers of the twentieth century: a survey of WSWS contributors
- Christmas Eve coup in Côte D'Ivoire
- New Argentine government shoots down protesting workers
- Indian Airlines hijacking highlights political tensions on the Indian subcontinent
1999-12-31
- Mergers lead to thousands of job cuts in Britain's utility companies
- Floods devastate central Vietnam
- Six Sri Lankans held for 19 months without trial plan to go on hunger strike
- Mistaken identity
- Overloaded ferry sinks in the Philippines killing at least 42 people
- OSCE report paints devastating picture of conditions in Kosovo
- Diplomatic scramble by Japan, US to open up North Korea
- Country music singer Hank Snow dead at 85
- Britain's Labour government agrees to finance controversial Turkish Ilisu dam project
- Report cites continued global warming trend in 1999
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