Archive: 01/2000
2000-01-05
- El marxismo y los sindicatos obreros
- Port worker's wife killed on New Zealand picket line
- Six new extra-solar planets discovered using new technique
- Striking visions of the First World War
- British government does not prosecute Nazi war criminal
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US and Britain combine to maintain crippling sanctions on Iraq
- After the airline hijack ends, India steps up its verbal attacks on Pakistan
- Seven drug deaths in Scotland over Christmas
- Britain's "debt relief" and what it means for the world's poor
- WSWS interviews Wim Wenders: director of Buena Vista Social Club
2000-01-06
- The crisis of the German Social Democratic Party
- Company filming documentary on Mumia Abu-Jamal harassed by Philadelphia authorities
- Judge denies bail to jailed US scientist Wen Ho Lee
- Worker's death exposes the dirty secrets of Japan's nuclear industry
- A brief tribute to Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
- Germany: Social Democratic government proposes massive tax breaks for big business
- Australian union leader Norm Gallagher dies at 67
- Canadian business decries wave of foreign takeovers
2000-01-07
- Fifty truckloads of jellyfish reveal a jittery political atmosphere in the Philippines
- Mental health law and the US judicial system
- Love, death & angst in California's San Fernando Valley
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Leading Tamil politician assassinated in Sri Lankan capital
- Tudjman's ultra-nationalist party defeated in Croatian elections
- On the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy
- Child labor and child slaves
2000-01-08
- Artist of a turbulent epoch dies
- The transfer of power in Moscow: what it means for Russia's political trajectory
- Australian Treasurer advocates lower wages in rural areas
- Train drivers boycott crash line in aftermath of Norway rail disaster
- But here on earth ...
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Another Kosovo lie exposed: NATO used doctored video to justify bombing of passenger train
- Mercy Hospital to close on Detroit's east side
2000-01-10
2000-01-11
- The socialist standpoint on the 1995 Quebec referendum on secession
- Rail companies could get immunity from prosecution following Paddington train crash
- Workers should oppose both federalist and separatist camps in Canada's constitutional dispute
- Papua New Guinea budget targets public sector workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Iranian students' death sentences confirmed
- Insightful, engaging modern dance
- Recent letters from WSWS readers
- Child psychiatrist discusses Supreme Court manslaughter trial of young boy in Australia
2000-01-12
- Two Tamil political prisoners killed as Sri Lankan prison guards crush protests
- Poverty and hunger worsen under US welfare reform
- The German Green party, and what is left of them
- The Elian Gonzalez affair—a case study in hypocrisy
- Primary school principal commits suicide in Australian country town
- Hundreds of Tamils rounded up in security dragnet of Sri Lankan capital
2000-01-13
- Protesters accuse Sri Lankan security forces of murdering a young Tamil woman
- Australian signalling engineer warns of further rail disasters
- Pinochet can go free, says Britain's Home Secretary
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Both parties applaud reappointment of Greenspan to head US Federal Reserve
- Florida legislature approves bill to speed executions
- Economic crisis forces Ecuador to abandon its own currency
- Ambitious, deeply flawed
- WSWS readers comment on recent arts reviews
2000-01-14
- Corruption and China policy dominate Taiwan presidential campaign
- US Supreme Court strips state workers of protection against age discrimination
- A reminder of how we all begin
- AOL buyout of Time Warner: merger frenzy sweeping corporate America
- Sordid maneuvers over six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez
- Michigan judge sentences 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham to juvenile facility
2000-01-15
- Execution of PKK leader Ocalan postponed
- Germany: PDS changes attitude in relation to military interventions
- NATO accused of human rights violations in Kosovo War
- Five Malaysian opposition figures arrested in government crackdown
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters to the WSWS
- Seattle and beyond: disarming the New World Order
- Risk of Mad Cow Disease growing throughout Europe
- Alcoa Australia admits cancer dangers
2000-01-17
2000-01-18
- Teachers and students fight to save a technical college in Sydney
- Sri Lankan government alleges opposition, military and business involvement in plot to kill the president
- Examining physician suggests British home secretary misled Parliament in bid to release Pinochet
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The "Hurricane" Carter story on film: What's there, and what's not
- On the threshold of the twenty-first century
- Report predicts four in every ten Britons will develop cancer
- New York state makes settlement offer to Attica inmates
2000-01-19
- El candidato del Partido Socialista ha derrotado por poco al anterior oficial de Pinochet en las elecciones presidenciales de Chile
- Two cases reveal wretched conditions for immigrant laborers in New York City
- Two Nassau County, New York jail guards plead guilty in fatal beating of inmate
- New report documents growing social inequality in the US
- US warns against Indonesian military coup
- Britain: Report calls for "unwanted" housing to be demolished
- Socialist Party candidate narrowly defeats ex-Pinochet official in Chilean presidential poll
- Strangeness and failure: Gish Jen's Who's Irish?
2000-01-20
- US welfare reform: behind the hype
- Australia: Victorian Labor government reneges on its education promises
- Two Samoan ministers go to trial for assassinating a fellow cabinet member
- Britain poised to release Chilean ex-dictator Pinochet
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Letters on the Elian Gonzalez controversy
- French filmmaker Robert Bresson (1901-1999)
2000-01-21
- A political balance sheet of the Yeltsin era
- Thai government survives no-confidence motion
- US steps up pressure on Sudanese government
- Safety concerns raised after deaths of three US students in fire at Seton Hall University
- Resentment mounts against UN administration in East Timor
- Union dock workers clash with police at South Carolina port
2000-01-22
- Basque separatist ETA blamed for explosions in Madrid
- British government to implement reform of Royal Ulster Constabulary
- Two homeless men freeze to death in New York City
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Glaxo Wellcome-SmithKline Beecham merger creates world's largest drug company
- The class divide in America and the 2000 presidential campaign
- Letters from WSWS readers
- Censorship, democracy and the state of contemporary art
- Michigan prosecutors bring new charges against 14-year-old Nathaniel Abraham
2000-01-24
2000-01-25
- Human rights groups to mount legal challenge to Pinochet's release by British Home Secretary
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Blair government presses ahead with attack on right to jury trial in England and Wales
- Readers comment on WSWS coverage of the US 2000 presidential campaign
- Bosnia fours years after the Dayton Accord: US and Europe preside over ethnic partition and corruption
- Thousands of jobs to go in European banking
- Contaminated aviation fuel grounds 5,000 planes in Australia
2000-01-26
- Divisions in British government over arms to Zimbabwe
- New evidence supports allegations of RUC collusion in murder of Irish lawyer
- Clinton panel rejects call for mandatory reporting of hospital errors
- Concerns in G7 over "imbalances" in world economy
- 50,000 protest Confederate flag in South Carolina: political issues in the fight for democratic rights
- The crisis of the German CDU and its consequences
- Finance scandal engulfs German Christian Democrats
- Australian trade unions reject national strike against BHP
2000-01-27
- London High Court considers moves to release Pinochet
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- The new year brings thousands of new job cuts in the US
- A worried face is not enough
- Anti-gay hysteria greets Blair's proposal to repeal Section 28
- A reply to a reader on the role of Stalinism in the former Yugoslavia
- Letters to the WSWS
- BHP prepares new global strategy at its Australian iron ore mines
2000-01-28
- Soft Fruit: A missed opportunity
- One hundred frame-ups admitted in widening Los Angeles police scandal
- Job prospects bleak in Australia as government and business continue to downsize
- Iowa caucuses mark official start of US presidential nomination process
- Presidential elections in Croatia go to second round
- Coca-Cola to eliminate 6,000 jobs in worldwide restructuring
2000-01-29
- Scottish deal on university tuition fees divides UK students
- Australia's MRI "scandal" diverts attention from government restrictions on medical diagnosis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- East Timor atrocities report threatens to deepen rift in Indonesian government
- Libel case focuses on collusion between security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries in northern Ireland
- A piece which fails to convince in any respect
- New Labour pledges to continue attack on public services
2000-01-31
- US dollar to be official currency in East Timor
- The State of the Union address: Where was the US Supreme Court?
- Clinton's State of the Union address: an exercise in deceit and self-delusion
- Spanish daily reveals secret correspondence in Pinochet extradition case
- Beijing exploits appalling safety record to shut mines
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