Archive: 02/2000
2000-02-01
- Sword attack on Cheltenham politicians: a product of social tensions in Britain
- Two million incarcerated in the US
- British High Court rejects challenge to stop Pinochet’s release
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ultra-rightist Haider close to entering Austrian government
- Interviews with Australian teachers about Geraldine Rawson's Supreme Court challenge
- On film reviews by David Walsh
- Thousands of officials punished in China's anti-corruption purge
- Angela's Ashes —too much of a chocolate box depiction
2000-02-02
- Art and swinishness considered, weakly
- Political lessons of the New York transit workers' contract struggle
- Department of Health issues guidelines to British parents on how to smack their children
- US admits radiation exposure killed nuclear weapons workers
- "Witness": An important chapter in US history
- Report on East Timor atrocities sets stage for political confrontation in Indonesia
- Illinois governor calls temporary halt to executions
- Suicide at Detroit casino—the human cost of legalized gambling
- The coup in Ecuador: a grim warning
- UK prison deemed guilty of "institutional neglect" in treatment of asylum-seekers
2000-02-03
- Britain's religious right campaigns to defend anti-gay "Section 28" legislation
- Toronto police target "anti-cop" politicians
- Sydney's homeless to be removed for Olympics
- Reports to New Zealand Labour government contain a picture of social devastation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- US intervenes to shape settlement in Congo
2000-02-04
- UAW officials take an auto worker for a ride
- Russian President Putin introduces widespread state monitoring of the Internet
- OECD study highlights widespread and persistent poverty in Europe and America
- US delivers a thinly disguised ultimatum to Pakistan
- The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: US court agrees to consider defense motion charging bias
- New revelations expose company-union complicity in fatal blast at US Ford plant
- Australian unions prepare to impose company demands on Pilbara workers
2000-02-05
- Guards, police charged with abuse of prisoners at New York area jails
- Britain: Government resignation highlights gulf between New Labour and working people
- Sacked Australian textile workers picket for $11 million in unpaid entitlements
- New Hampshire primary vote shakes up US presidential campaign
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian teachers continue their fight against new award
- Letters to the WSWS
- The Austrian ultra-rightist Haider and Europe
2000-02-07
2000-02-08
- El Caso de Amadou Diallo: Las Raíces Socio-políticas de la Violencia Policíaca
- La Exoneración de los Policías de Nueva York: el Tribunal Sancionan el Asesinato de Amadou Diallo
- Arbitrary detention of schoolchildren provokes a student boycott throughout northern Sri Lanka
- Philippines president buys a little time by ending Cha Cha reforms and reshuffling cabinet
- Britain: government reports, leaks to media promote military build-up
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- My century?
- US presidential campaign: George W. Bush speaks at racist university
- Technical workers denounce union officials for rejecting strike action against Boeing
- European Union: restrictive asylum policy costs lives
2000-02-09
- University of Michigan study shows decline in net wealth for poor, minorities in the US
- Sri Lanka's 52nd Independence Day: a pall of gloom hangs over the ruling elites
- President Mbeki threatens South African workers
- British High Court ruling opens way for deportation of over 6,000 Kurdish asylum-seekers
- Afghan hijacking in fourth day at London's Stansted airport
- Trial begins in New York police killing of Amadou Diallo
- New information on the case of two jailed Australian aid workers
2000-02-10
- Police suppress Mexican University strike
- Some things are clearer than others
- Labor Party invokes emergency measures against Australian electricity workers
- British Appeal Court grants judicial review, delaying release of Pinochet
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Top Indonesian general continues to reject presidential calls for his resignation
- Reader comments on Ford Rouge explosion
- Letter about The Green Mile
- Boeing technical workers strike US aerospace giant
2000-02-11
- Spain: racist violence injures 50 in Almeria
- The banning and unbanning in Australia of the new French film Romance
- US court orders seizure of Northwest flight attendants' home computers
- Japan slides back into recession
- Officially launching her Senate campaign, Hillary Clinton submits her right-wing "New Democrat" credentials
- After the hijacking: British government, media demand deportation of Afghanis
- Internet vandals threaten access and expression on the World Wide Web
- US executions continue at record pace despite revelations of wrongful convictions
2000-02-12
- Britain's Vodafone swallows Germany's Mannesmann
- An exchange of letters on the New York City transit workers' contract struggle
- Patients and health care advocates in Michigan protest Medicaid cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel admits stockpiling nuclear weapons
- Hindu chauvinists block filming of Deepa Mehta's Water
- Clinton's final budget calls for military buildup, fiscal austerity
- A scare on US bond markets
- Hysteria never helped anyone
2000-02-14
2000-02-15
- New York City transit workers ratify contract
- Australian government secures new East Timor oil treaty
- Sri Lankan security forces continue witchhunt against Tamils
- Deepa Mehta speaks out against Hindu extremist campaign to stop her film
- Sunday Times alleges Britain's MI6 played role in Gadhaffi assassination attempt
- Cyanide spill "a catastrophe of European dimensions"
- California's "three-strikes" law boosts prison population-two cases in point
2000-02-16
- Moroccan immigrant workers strike in southern Spain
- Struggle of Russian workers for control of Vyborg Cellulose Combine
- Refugees resort to hunger strike in remote Australian prison camp
- The Bruehl train accident—German rail safety on the decline
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Suspension of Northern Ireland Assembly reveals undemocratic nature of "peace process"
- Government crackdown against the Hezbollah in Turkey
- Giordano Bruno, philosopher and scientist, burnt at the stake 400 years ago
2000-02-17
- Sacked South African Volkswagen workers appeal for international support
- Reform Party in US lines up behind ultra-rightist Patrick Buchanan
- Academy Award nominations: a large dose of philistinism, some hopeful signs
- Thousands demonstrate in Berlin in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Israeli reprisals hit Lebanese civilians
- Indonesian president's backflip over the fate of General Wiranto
- US occupation force evacuates Haiti, leaving a country in ruins
- Nick Beams replies to Michel Chossudovsky's "Seattle and beyond: disarming the New World Order"
2000-02-18
- Leaked medical evidence aimed at thwarting Pinochet’s extradition
- Montreal Internet service provider raided by FBI
- Glasgow pushes the privatisation of schools and housing
- The 35-hour workweek in France: how a progressive idea was distorted beyond recognition
- Ford Europe unveils restructuring strategy
- Thai hospital shootout punctures government's democratic pretensions
- Australian banks return record profits and axe thousands of jobs
2000-02-19
- Amnesty International calls for new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Indian film societies federation protests attacks on artistic freedom and democratic rights
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Public outcry in Australia over jailed Aboriginal boy's suicide
- True to form: Clinton rejects moratorium on death penalty
- Once again, on the rush to judgment in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990
- US stocks fall sharply after Greenspan warning
- The Alaska Airlines crash: signs point to a wider crisis in air safety
2000-02-21
2000-02-22
- Zimbabwe: Referendum defeat for Mugabe shakes Zanu-PF government
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian prime minister under siege
- Study shows higher cardiac death rates in major US cities, rural South
- The European Union's sanctions against Austria
- Amadou Diallo murder trial drawing to a close
- Quite obedient really
2000-02-23
- European Union annual report: signs of growing racism and xenophobia
- TV documentary presents case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Citizen group campaign throws South Korean elections into chaos
- Joerg Haider's Canadian friends
- Ford announces 1,500 job losses at its biggest UK plant
- Clinton pushes $1.6 billion military plan for Colombia
- Marxist internationalism vs. the perspective of radical protest
2000-02-24
- New figures show Australian union membership in free-fall
- Colonial-era laws invoked to gag government officials in Sri Lanka
- Norway intensifies persecution of asylum seekers
- NATO troops clash with Kosovan Serbs and Albanian protesters in Mitrovica
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Parliamentary elections in Iran: victory for "reformers" masks social contradictions
- The 50th Berlin film festival: pomp and paucity
2000-02-25
- Growing concern over Internet privacy
- "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?": US television hits bottom, for now
- April 18 trial set for Nathaniel Abraham on new assault charges
- Labour Party rigs candidate selection process for London mayor
- UN aid coordinator for Iraq resigns in protest at "human tragedy" of sanctions
- 250,000 demonstrate in Vienna against new Austrian government
- Marxist internationalism vs. the perspective of radical protest
2000-02-26
- Sri Lankan budget: increased defence spending and further IMF restructuring
- Bush debacle in Michigan primary election deepens crisis in Republican Party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain's Police Federation forces shutdown of Internet web site
- Texas executes 62-year-old great grandmother Betty Lou Beets
- The tension between cinematic vision and life itself
- Report documents widespread abuse in British children's homes
2000-02-28
- Religious conflicts in Nigeria
- World Socialist Web Site issues appeal: Oppose Hindu extremist attacks on Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- Archaeological find opens the pages of Ancient Greek history
- The Amadou Diallo case: The social and political roots of police violence
- Acquittal of New York City police: court sanctions murder of Amadou Diallo
2000-02-29
- The rehabilitation of Stalin—an ideological cornerstone of the new Kremlin politics
- How war has shattered the life of a Sri Lankan village
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- La segunda bomba de ETA mata a un líder del partido socialista en España
- Letters on the Amadou Diallo verdict
- Other letters from WSWS readers
- Bangladesh government introduces harsh new security laws
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