Archive: 05/2000
2000-05-01
2000-05-02
- US Transportation Department proposes to lengthen truckers' driving hours
- Five killed in racist shooting rampage in Pittsburgh
- The Microsoft law suit, software development and the capitalist market
- Nick Beams to deliver lecture at six Australian universities
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Report finds pervasive racial bias in US juvenile justice system
- The elections in Georgia: an analysis of Shevardnadze's victory
- Fire: A film which bears witness to Deepa Mehta's courage as an artist
2000-05-03
- Economic nationalism sets the tone for IMF protests in Washington
- McCain in Vietnam: the ugly face of American imperialism
- An interesting experiment in cinematic education
- Radio and TV actors strike US advertisers
- An exchange over the Labour-Alliance government in New Zealand
- Canadian Alliance leadership race: Why the media buzz over Tom Long?
2000-05-04
- An air of desperation in Sri Lankan ruling circles as the LTTE makes further advances
- British teachers vilified for opposing performance-related pay
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Second nuclear worker dies in Japan
- Assault on press freedom intensifies political crisis in Iran
- Letters to the WSWS
- Clinton begins final push for passage of Colombia aid bill
2000-05-05
- US forces expel protesters from Puerto Rican bombing range
- Soros withdrawal: a sign of things to come
- Rock band launches suit against Internet music downloads
- Virtual militancy: a conversation with Human Resources filmmaker Laurent Cantet
- Ford likely to close Dagenham plant in London
- EPDP thugs in the service of Colombo regime: A serious threat to the lives of SEP members in Sri Lanka
- Austria: Right-wing coalition government intensifies welfare cuts
- Time Warner pulls the plug on ABC: Flashpoint in economic war among media giants
2000-05-06
- Britain: Labour suffers heavy losses in local elections and London mayoral race
- Australia's Telstra suspends workers on flimsy charges of storing pornography
- Australian government dumps refugees in cities without money or basic services
- Canada: Parti Québécois convention meets as support for separation wanes
- Pan Am Flight 103: Trial opens of Libyans accused of Lockerbie bombing
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Email virus wreaks havoc on corporate networks throughout Europe and America
2000-05-08
2000-05-09
- Readers welcome launch of World Socialist Web Site in Tamil
- Sierra Leone: Britain sends crack troops as hostage crisis worsens
- Hostage standoff continues in war torn and impoverished southern Philippines
- Nyack, New York hospital nurses strike in fifth month
- "Self-regulation" spawns Legionnaire's Disease epidemic in Melbourne
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Irish Republican Army promises to put weaponry "beyond use"
2000-05-10
- British unions rally for entry to euro
- Fighting erupts again as Sri Lankan government imposes censorship clampdown
- An interview with Bernice Chauly—Malaysian filmmaker
- Lincoln letters posted on Library of Congress web site
- Elian's case highlights US assault on Cuba
- New Jersey conference exposes cases of wrongful conviction and imprisonment
- "Love-Bug" virus damage estimated at $10 billion
2000-05-11
- Ahmet Sezer chosen new president of Turkey
- Norway: unions close down general strike against inequality
- Exhibition in Bielefield, Germany—Kazimir Malevich: The Later Work
- London's new mayor Ken Livingstone appoints "inclusive" cabinet
- Severe drought hits tens of millions across India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Letters in support of Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- Australian budget balancing act fails to appease the markets
2000-05-12
- Amnesty International condemns US for violations of UN Convention Against Torture
- Relaunching London's Tate Gallery—RePresenting Britain 1500-2000
- Britain steps up military intervention in Sierra Leone
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Tehran regime mounts show trial of 13 Iranian Jews
- New Delhi offers to mediate in Sri Lanka
- "The education department is pursuing this with the zealotry of the Spanish Inquisition"
2000-05-13
- Sri Lankan government bans live TV and radio broadcasts as the military crisis deepens in Jaffna
- Everything must be done to restore hope
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The end of the "Ice Age" in Germany
- Ford to close largest UK plant in Dagenham
- Nick Beams replies on globalisation, Marx and political power
- English hospital censured for using premature babies as human "guinea pigs"
2000-05-15
- Films from India: The Servant's Shirt and Split Wide Open
- Takeover of British Rover plant: thousands of jobs still at risk
- Refugees held incommunicado in Australia, then violently deported
- Why the Socialist Equality Party turned down Sri Lankan President Kumaratunga's invitation to all-party talks
- The attack on public education: letter from a Philadelphia teacher
2000-05-16
- Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens millions
- The merger of the Frankfurt and London stock exchanges
- Sri Lankan government pushes through new military spending
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Explosion at Dutch fireworks warehouse highlights lack of concern for public safety
- Study finds widespread racial bias in US criminal justice system
2000-05-17
- President Kumaratunga's all-party meeting in Sri Lanka: a platform for the extreme right
- Atrocities in Sudan linked with fight for oil
- Nepal government launches crackdown on strikes and insurgency
- The Million Mom March: the social and political issues that were not addressed
- Social inequality increases in Britain
- Victims of the German SPD-Green coalition asylum policies—Part 1
- Detroit leads US in police killings
2000-05-18
2000-05-19
- 'Most of us do not feel that this war is our war'
- A reply by the Hindustan Times to WSWS campaign in defence of filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- Thousands rally in New York in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Germany's Social Democrats and Greens suffer further losses in state election
- Dangers persist of nuclear contamination in Los Alamos wildfire
- 'They are punishing Deepa for deflating their egos'
- Filmmaker Deepa Mehta replies to an attack in the Hindustan Times
- Letters to the WSWS
- Britain gives missile contract to European consortium
2000-05-20
- New email virus potentially more damaging than "Love Bug"
- LTTE makes further gains in Sri Lankan fighting
- Britain's military intervention in Sierra Leone part of a new "Scramble for Africa"
- Paddington train disaster inquiry hears how rail companies "put profit before safety"
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian building company collapse leaves families stranded
- Former Klansmen indicted for murder in 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Alabama church
2000-05-22
2000-05-23
- How the Socialist Workers Party (US) changed its line on the Elian Gonzalez case
- Socialist Workers Party (US) denounces rescue of Elian Gonzalez
- 'The denial of the right to information is equal to slavery'
- US advertiser publishes provocative ad against striking actors
- A comment on Rules of Engagement
- Microsoft lawsuit reveals predatory corporate practices
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Indonesian government walking a political tightrope on Aceh truce
2000-05-24
- El significado y las implicaciones de la globalización
- Sri Lankan government bans three newspapers under emergency powers
- There are still some courageous people, even in the film industry
- Two student protesters killed by police in Durban, South Africa
- Suspended Ohio middle school student crushed to death in homeless shelter elevator
- Danish Social Democrats vote for entry into European single currency
- 53rd Cannes Film Festival comes to an end
- Algerian refugee commits suicide in Frankfurt airport's asylum zone
2000-05-25
- Marat/Sade at the Berliner Ensemble
- By-election result reveals ongoing volatility in rural Australia
- US trade deficit hits new monthly record
- Part 2: The political lessons of the 1995-97 anti-Tory movement
- Workers Struggles: Europe
- Workers at Moraine, Ohio auto parts plants reject tentative contract
- Fighting intensifies in the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict
- Letters to the WSWS
2000-05-26
- US and EU push India to intervene in Sri Lanka
- War and peace
- China trade bill approved by US House of Representatives
- No "political core": the collapse of New York Mayor Giuliani's Senate race
- Political crisis intensifies as Fiji's chiefs encourage racialist gunmen
- Texas executes three men in one week
- Britain's Prince Charles attacks science
2000-05-27
- 'Whoever wins this war, the poor people stand to lose'
- Britain outlines its colonialist ambitions in Sierra Leone
- What is US envoy Thomas Pickering doing in Sri Lanka?
- Alberta health care workers end "illegal" strike
- The harsh reality of the Asian economic "miracle" in a Chinese province
- Museum of Modern Art strike in New York enters second month
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- GM, Ford idle 1,365 workers—auto industry layoffs signal coming downturn in US economy
- John Gielgud: A life in the theatre (1904-2000)
2000-05-29
2000-05-30
- Sri Lankan unions abruptly end two long-running strikes
- Films about important subjects that don't explain enough
- Investigator into Lockerbie explosion casts doubt on bomb location
- US magazine seeks to undermine accounts of Korean War massacre
- Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon increases Middle East tensions
- Teachers' union agrees to sellout deal with NSW Labor government
- Cuba and US exchange limited concessions
2000-05-31
- Advertising producers moving production out of strikebound Hollywood
- New Zealand students begin nationwide campaign for free state education
- Netherlands fireworks factory explosion—the downside of the Dutch social model
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ulster Unionist Party resumes power-sharing with Sinn Fein
- Fiji's military leaders move to impose racialists' demands
- Questions about Chris Smith's American Movie
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