Archive: 07/2000
2000-07-01
- The post-modernist wonderland: Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
- Three miners trapped in West Australian gold mine
- Presidential election marks turning point for Mexico
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese election result sets stage for political instability
- Following the execution of Gary Graham: a curious silence in the media
- Letters to the WSWS
2000-07-03
- An exchange of letters with Cari Sagan Greene, sister of the late scientist Carl Sagan
- Why the New York Times wants Green Party candidate Ralph Nader out of the presidential campaign
- Iranian show trial concludes with harsh sentences against Jewish defendants
- A reply to US Green Party supporters
- Asian "recovery" on shaky foundations
2000-07-04
- Tate Modern: London's new gallery of twentieth century modern art
- Sri Lankan government delays postal corporatisation bill as workers threaten work-to-rule campaign
- Ruling party defeated in Mexican elections
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: investigator proves records were destroyed in Kohl's chancellery
- Strike collapses at Calgary Herald
- Relatives of Argentines killed in Belgrano sinking take Britain to human rights court
2000-07-05
- Artistic variety and substance sacrificed to commercial considerations
- Germany: Lessons of the public sector wage dispute
- One third of Milwaukee, Wisconsin children growing up in working poor families
- Military imposes a government of businessmen, bureaucrats and high chiefs on Fiji
- Growing disaffection with Blair government in Britain
- South Africa: The ANC government and the AIDS crisis
2000-07-06
- What business does the US have with the Sinhala chauvinists in Sri Lanka?
- Papua New Guinea fast money schemes: a financial house of cards collapses
- Nigeria in midst of strike wave
- "The only appropriate response is to make the film" An interview with filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- The return of Elian Gonzalez—the end of a shameful episode
- Fragile peace in Ethiopia-Eritrea war
2000-07-07
2000-07-08
- 23 school children die in Spanish coach accident
- Study shows how New York City cut its welfare rolls
- Thousands protest killing of Detroit man by mall security guards
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 4,000 health care workers in San Francisco launch one-day strike
- Opposition grows in Hong Kong to Beijing's big business administration
- Union at Ohio DaimlerChrysler plant imposes contract without allowing membership vote
- Canadian Alliance leadership race: Will big business embrace the religious right?
2000-07-10
- A poor attempt to explain the twentieth century
- Philadelphia tense with preparations under way for Republican National Convention
- Ministerial scandal in New Zealand ends Labour's media "honeymoon"
- London nail-bomber found guilty of politically motivated murder campaign
- Report shows private sector profiteering in British education
- European Union to investigate US-run satellite spy network
2000-07-11
- Britain's Yorkshire Water plans to off-load costs onto customers
- A sympathetic look at the complexities of old age
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- International delegates at US Green Party convention defend Kosovo War
- Human Genome Project: First scientific milestone of the twenty-first century
- Over 400 lost in Indonesian ferry tragedy as refugees flee fighting in the Malukus
- Chirac's European vision unleashes controversy in France
2000-07-12
- Sri Lankan government and opposition agree on a shaky plan for a negotiated end to the war
- The New York Times springs to the defense of Kenneth Starr's former spokesman
- Iran's President Khatami visits Germany
- European heat wave leads to deaths and forest fires
- Fiji's military leaders accede to racialists' demands
- Scandal dogs bidding war over Soccer World Cup
- Renewed fears that BSE/Mad Cow Disease can pass from one generation to another
2000-07-13
- Australia and New Zealand seek to impose settlement on Solomons conflict
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Iranian exiles defy massive police presence to protest Khatami's visit to Germany
- Widespread disturbances in Northern Ireland sparked by hardline Unionists
- Police, media smear Detroit man killed by security guards
- Australian Labor Party's anti-GST policy left in tatters
2000-07-14
- Study shows New York workfare program is eliminating union jobs
- Police beating in Philadelphia captured on videotape
- No idea whatsoever
- More than 250 feared dead in Nigerian pipeline explosion
- Mounting social tensions in Israel and Palestinian Authority loom over Camp David summit
- Controversy in Japan over record corporate bailout
- Japan's debt crisis hangs over global economy
- Students, workers protest in Iran
2000-07-15
- Victimised SEP member in Sri Lanka reinstated
- New Zealand employer sets up "People First" company union
- Chinese government backs development of Linux operating system
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Labour's employment initiatives cut welfare rolls and depress wage rates
- German state government of Baden-Württemberg shows solidarity with Austrian right-wing coalition
- Bavaria's "Blue Card": a new attack on rights to immigration and asylum in Germany
2000-07-17
2000-07-18
- UN report on AIDS paints a picture of devastation-Part 2
- Media censorship in Sri Lanka ruled invalid then reimposed
- Mediated talks in US commercial actors strike collapse
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Italy: work-related accidents and deaths on the rise
- Former Diego Garcia islanders launch legal action against British government
- Hypocrisy and nervousness dominate Australian union congress
2000-07-19
- British parliament set to adopt law enforcing police access to encrypted email
- Germany: Schroeder government pushes through tax reforms to benefit big business
- French anti-globalisation protest calls for trade war measures against US
- The killing of Frederick Finley: sudden death in an American city
- They'll wait and see
- Australian government pours funds into private schools at the direct expense of public schools
- The Canadian Alliance: the new face of political reaction
2000-07-20
- "Sinhala suicide bomber": the case study of a police-media frame-up
- Homeless man killed by Amtrak police in Philadelphia
- French workers occupy chemical plant
- Inquiry demanded into death of black youth in Mississippi
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- French right-wing party splinters
- Britain: Deaths from Human BSE reveal "statistically significant rising trend"
2000-07-21
- Zar de la Campaña Contra las Drogas Vinculado a Atrocidades Durante la Guerra del Golfo Persa
- "Promised Land" garbage landslide kills at least 200 in the Philippines
- Britain: Labour government presses ahead with performance-related pay for teachers
- Iranian President Khatami visits Goethe's Weimar
- Art, museums and society
- Basque separatist ETA steps up violence
- Letters to the WSWS
- US Defence Secretary Cohen demands Australia boost its military
2000-07-22
- Plans to increase government spending spark furore in Britain's media
- Spanish government speeds up liberalisation of utilities
- British-backed forces in Sierra Leone accused of attacks on civilians
- Mexico after the elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- As G8 summit meets: debt stranglehold tightens
- Announcement of new government postponed in Fiji
2000-07-24
2000-07-25
- US Special Counsel Danforth whitewashes Waco massacre
- A liberal brief for militarism and neo-colonialism
- The tragedy of the "stolen generation"
- UK-Dutch steel giant Corus cuts 4,000 jobs
- Scottish Nationalist Party leader Alex Salmond announces sudden resignation
- Indonesian president faces a confrontation at next month's MPR session
2000-07-26
- "Business and morals"—compensation agreement signed for World War II concentration camp labourers
- Philadelphia rally demands prosecution of cops for televised beating
- New Zealand's Maori nationalists and the coup in Fiji
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Youth's anguish
- Concorde crash outside Paris kills at least 113
- The Bush-Cheney ticket: the politics of plutocracy
- Talks break off after two days in US commercial actors strike
2000-07-27
- Sogo bankruptcy may signal new era in Japanese finances
- New data reveals rising poverty under Britain's Labour government
- Nigerian unions concluding separate agreements over minimum wage
- Mideast tensions mount following breakdown of Camp David talks
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- The Korean summit: no recipe for peace and prosperity
- Germany's tax reform: the end of the "social market economy"
- WSWS correspondence on the human genome project
2000-07-28
- Ontario Tories attack public education
- Temporary injunction granted against Napster
- Rhetoric but no action on global financial problems at G8 summit
- WSWS correspondence on the Congo
- Safety concerns raised in aftermath of Concorde crash
- Concorde—its history and tragedy
- Lawsuit against Britain over Belgrano sinking thrown
2000-07-29
- US Congress pushes tax windfalls for the wealthy
- Two young Czech filmmakers investigating real human experiences
- Western powers exploit growing tensions between Serbia and Montenegro
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Chile floods expose lack of planning and infrastructure
- South Africa: AIDS conference accepts limited agenda
2000-07-31
- Britain: Labour fails in attempt to repeal anti-gay legislation
- Spanish Socialist Party elects "New Way" representative as general secretary
- Thousands rally in Philadelphia on eve of Republican convention
- Pakistan military junta's first budget meets opposition at home and abroad
- Immigrants make up 40 percent of New York City's population
- Régis Wargnier's new film East-West: a flawed but compelling portrait of postwar USSR
2000-07-ts
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