Archive: 08/2000
2000-08-01
- United Students Against Sweatshops: reformist illusions in the service of the American trade union bureaucracy
- US ad agencies demand actors unions capitulate
- George W. Bush in Philadelphia: the politics of illusion
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- How long will Japanese Prime Minister Mori last?
- Sharp rise in arson attacks on British schools
- Under Western pressure, Fiji's military moves against coup leaders
2000-08-02
- Clinton administration plan for FBI spying on email
- Canada: State witch-hunt of advocates for Toronto's homeless
- Recent films from China: Shower and Seventeen Years
- Sydney's transport system places lives at risk
- New York cops cleared in killing of Patrick Dorismond
- Big job cuts in US bank, auto, oil and retail sectors
- Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore pushes "law-and-order" agenda
2000-08-03
- México Después de las Elecciones
- Tamil Muslims in Sri Lankan refugee camps: Victims of the 17-year civil war
- Fundamentalist anti-evolution candidates defeated in Kansas state election
- Reply to a question on debt
- Big money flaunts its power at Republican convention
- Tenth Century manuscript provides insights into the works of Archimedes
2000-08-04
- Widespread Ontario water crisis discredits Tories
- Sri Lankan President tries to push through anti-democratic constitution
- Over 450 arrested during Republican convention in Philadelphia
- Death penalty opponents hold press conference in Philadelphia
- Chilean Supreme Court removes Pinochet’s immunity but keeps verdict secret
- Justifying the role of imperialism in Africa
2000-08-05
- Solomon Islands ceasefire could pave the way for Australian troops
- US Christian fundamentalists target Harry Potter books
- Australian government uses Sydney Olympics to strengthen military powers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US death penalty debate intensifies in aftermath of Graham execution
- Letters to the WSWS
2000-08-07
2000-08-08
- 87,000 US phone workers strike Verizon Communications
- “Before we were sad, but the film has changed our lives”
- Hundreds arrested during Republican convention remain in prison
- Democrat Gore picks Lieberman as running mate: kowtowing to the Republican right
- Bribes, pleas and uproar as Sri Lankan parliament debates new constitution
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- George W. Bush: the candidate as IPO
- Greek victims of Nazi rule win lawsuit against Berlin
2000-08-09
- Sri Lankan government crisis deepens as Kumaratunga "postpones" constitutional reform bill
- Teaching stories and empty posturing
- European Union widens anti-trust case against Microsoft
- Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim found guilty in second frame-up trial
- Ten years after German reunification: a balance sheet
- Letters to WSWS
- WSWS to provide on-the-spot coverage of Democratic Party National Convention
2000-08-10
- US telecommunications workers continue strike against Verizon
- US federal probe into United Auto Workers extortion scheme
- West demands release of four accused of spying on Serbia
- Corte Suprema Chilena Despoja a Pinochet de su Inmunidad pero Mantiene el Veredicto Secreto
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Washington police arrest anti-Iraq sanctions protesters
- ALP National Conference: Doug Cameron and the politics of "fair trade"
- Australian Labor Party conference meets "under the gun"
2000-08-11
2000-08-12
- Over 200 Republican Convention protesters remain in Philadelphia jails
- A reply to a radical activist in New Zealand
- Letter from John Carolan in response to John Braddock's article on New Zealand students
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Hundreds killed by floods in India, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh
- History and sadness: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Good Men, Good Women
- 87,000 workers begin second week of strike against Verizon
- Clinton's act of contrition
- US Reform Party splits in two
- British media incites lynch-mob atmosphere over child sex abuse
2000-08-14
- Discovery of fundamental particle concludes long-standing scientific quest
- British Library throws out thousands of books and historic newspapers
- Los Angeles authorities harass Democratic Convention protesters
- US insists on resumption of talks between India and Kashmir separatists
- Large increase in construction site deaths in UK
- Buchanan outlines fascistic platform at Reform Party convention
2000-08-15
- Report into Australian ski disaster lets developers off the hook
- “The pleasure of seeing should be the moving force”
- Democratic Party platform caters to Wall Street
- US and British planes kill Iraqi civilians in weekend bombing raid
- Hollow Man, hollow indeed
- The human genome project: science, society and superstition
- Union rejects contract offer—Verizon Communications workers speak on issues in strike
2000-08-16
- Yahoo! granted reprieve in French court's attempt to block access
- Firestone recalls millions of tires in US following accident reports
- Conditions deteriorate for Tamil masses in Jaffna
- US reasserts its interests in Africa, sending troops to Nigeria
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Democratic convention highlights social divide in Los Angeles and America
- UN raids Serb-run factory in Kosovo to reassert its authority
- US intervention heats up Colombian conflict
- AIDS in Africa: an indictment of an outmoded social order
2000-08-17
- Britain: Constant testing increases stress among school pupils
- Right-wing historian Ernst Nolte receives the Konrad Adenauer Prize for Science
- Pro-Napster protesters vandalise web sites
- Australian library workers fight cuts to jobs and services
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Los Angeles police attack protesters at Democratic convention
- Three recent films
- Corporate sponsors, Hollywood millionaires shower Democratic convention with money
- Clinton's speech to the Democratic convention: toasting success on the eve of the deluge
2000-08-18
- US: Forced overtime and job security key issues in Verizon strike
- Sri Lankan Peoples Alliance regime turns to Sinhala chauvinists
- Discovery of nine new planets extends possibility of finding extra terrestrial life
- Release of last protesters arrested during Republican convention
- LinuxWorld Conference highlights corporate interest in alternative computer operating system
- Why the Far Eastern Economic Review has opened its pages to the radical left in Indonesia
- Executions in Oklahoma and Texas
- Among the delegates to the Democratic National Convention: Complacency, conservatism and a few sparks of discontent
- Republican vice-presidential nominee gets $20 million payoff from US oil company
2000-08-19
- Rise in juvenile suicides in Britain's prisons
- Pinochet Pierde la Inmunidad, Pero el Gobierno Chileno Trata de Protegerlo
- Idle Running: a comic story about a lethargic student
- Israel-Palestine: Barak and Arafat face mounting political opposition
- Amnesty International protests shackling of jailed US scientist
- Workers Struggles; Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US job cuts hit truck manufacturing, banking and Internet companies
- Letters to the WSWS
- Right-wing conspiracy continues: new grand jury to investigate Clinton
- Who is watching Big Brother and why?
2000-08-21
2000-08-22
- Educational testing as a global industry
- Scientists achieve cellular transformation of bone marrow stem cells into nerve cells
- Enormes Reducciones en los Sectores Bancarios, Automovilísticos, Petroleros y de Ventas al Detalle
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- War crimes tribunal report shows Western powers exaggerated Kosovo victims of ethnic cleansing
- Bank of Japan lifts interest rates
- Gore's newfound populism: an ossified establishment confronts the class chasm in America
- Australian film technicians defend Deepa Mehta
2000-08-23
- Turkish president in conflict with government and military
- Putin's "Chernobyl": The tragedy of the Russian submarine disaster in the Barents Sea
- Splits in Peoples Alliance regime as Sri Lanka heads for general election
- Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party to contest general election
- Israeli banks and institutions kept Nazi victims' assets
- One thousand protest death penalty near Pennsylvania's death row
- Dominican death squad sentenced in '75 murder
- The rise and fall and rise again of John Waters
2000-08-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- New Zealand rail workers' deaths a result of privatisation and the drive for profit
- Indonesian parliamentary session marked by collaboration between "reformers" and Suharto's Golkar
- Erich Mielke—the career of a German Stalinist
- US elections: Gore ticket rushes to reassure big business
- Police spies active in protests at Democratic convention
- Ulster Defence Association leader arrested after intra-Loyalist violence in Belfast
- US union leaders split ranks of striking telecom workers
- The enigma of the baroque
2000-08-25
- Former British spy David Shayler arrested for breaching Official Secrets Act
- Corruption at Paris city hall
- Journalists face spying charges in Liberia
- A conversation with Indian filmmaker Ketan Mehta
- How an Australian discount airline funds its cutprice fares
- Basque separatists step up terrorist activities
- Support for Western military intervention provokes divisions within Amnesty International
2000-08-26
- Verizon striker describes hi-tech speedup
- The Firestone recall: new evidence implicates Firestone and Ford in tire failures
- Sri Lankan government exploits allegations of murder and torture against opposition
- Jailed US nuclear scientist granted bail as government case unravels
- Canadian Alliance and Bloc Quebecois rubbing shoulders
- Strike at New York's Museum of Modern Art enters fifth month
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The Kurdish Tragedy—PKK activists on trial for murdering a Kurdish couple in Bremen
- US telecom union ends strike at Verizon
- An exchange of letters on AIDS/HIV
2000-08-28
- India: Shivasena leader Bal Thackery escapes prosecution
- Police raid on British prison raises awkward questions
- The public debate on right-wing violence in Germany
- Record US trade deficit a symptom of deeper economic problems
- Other letters to the WSWS
- Letters on WSWS coverage of US elections
- Watching the American political conventions: impressions of the uninitiated
2000-08-29
- United Airlines, pilots union reach deal
- Australian government seeks to push through revamped military call-out bill
- Ruling party in Mexico suffers another defeat in Chiapas state vote
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The sinking of the Kursk and the crisis of the Russian military
- Eight immigrants die attempting to reach Greece
- New measures against football hooligans undermine civil liberties in Britain
2000-08-30
- Turkish army kills Kurdish civilians in north Iraq
- Neo-Nazis confess to brutal killing of Mozambican in east Germany
- Moscow's Ostankino TV tower goes up in flames
- Clinton visit inaugurates Colombian intervention
- Discovery of Chilean boy's body highlights role of Lagos government's accord with military
- BHP makes record profit but the markets are far from satisfied
2000-08-31
- Australian poet Judith Wright (1915-2000): an appreciation
- Welfare report recommends steps to end Australia's postwar social security system
- Seizure of British troops in Sierra Leone provokes demands for withdrawal
- Security preparations in Australia for upcoming World Economic Forum
- Hostile bid for London Stock Exchange from Sweden's OM Group
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Detroit police kill deaf mute
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