Archive: 09/2000
2000-09-01
- Germany: Former left-wing radical Horst Mahler joins the neo-fascist NPD
- Clinton's Nigeria visit seeks to strengthen US influence in Africa
- The US elections: Lieberman's holy war against the Bill of Rights
- Indonesian parliament takes a step toward removing President Abdurrahman Wahid
- Federal Reserve conference spotlights financial instability
- Listening to Brian Wilson
- Resignation of Algeria's prime minister reveals growing rift in ruling circles
2000-09-02
- United Nations criticises UK on race relations
- "The raw dream of Oedipus"
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Extolling the politics of expediency: an interview with US Green Party leaders
- Row over gender-gap in Britain's exam results conceals more than it reveals
- Sydney's airport baggage handling system "an international joke"
2000-09-04
- US National Institute of Health announces new guidelines for embryo stem cell research
- Splits in Sri Lankan government coalition deepen
- Police attack asylum seekers with water cannons and tear gas in Australian prison camp
- New York Times calls for exclusion of Green candidate Ralph Nader from presidential debates
- Some lessons from the history of the Iranian workers movement
2000-09-05
- The Firestone recall—corporations scramble to retain image amid further allegations
- Nominations for October 10 general election reveal decay of official politics in Sri Lanka
- Behind the US reaction to the Anwar conviction in Malaysia
- Scientists find hints of ocean on Jupiter's moon
- International Olympic Committee threatens to "close down" Internet sites
- Partial autonomy for Corsica splits French government
2000-09-06
- Britain proposes UN "peacekeeping" cover for great power military interventions
- PNG superannuation fund collapse robs workers of retirement benefits
- Progress Party overtakes Labour in Norwegian opinion polls
- Microsoft ordered to pay $1 million to US software firm
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Hundreds die in floods in southern India and Bangladesh
- Alec Guinness (1914-2000)—an appreciation
2000-09-07
- The contemporary significance of Leon Trotsky's life and work
- Death in August—brutality and despair in Toronto
- Philadelphia teachers authorize strike action
- New Zealand police exonerated in the killing of young Maori
- Letters on "The US elections: Lieberman's holy war on the Bill of Rights"
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa & the Middle East
- New US provocations against Iraq
- Heavy sentences for racist murderers in Germany
- Rural protests in China put down by riot police
- 10,000 books buried at Australian university
2000-09-08
- Britain's Conservative Party issues extreme right-wing manifesto
- Continuing racism in South Africa: White employer drags black worker to death
- The key political issues in the struggle against global capitalism
- An abrupt turn in Sri Lanka's civil war once again reveals the fascist character of the JVP
- Renewed clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Iran
- Michigan judge drops charges against security guard in choking death of Detroit man
- Letters on "Listening to Brian Wilson"
2000-09-09
- Sri Lankan government launches a major military offensive to boost its electoral prospects
- Britain: Ritalin ban recommended for children under five years of age
- Sydney reorganised to benefit Olympic Games corporate sponsors
- Report documents modern mass homelessness in New York City—Part 1
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A glimpse of US-Japan economic tensions
- Britain: Head teacher's conviction for assaulting 10-year-old pupil quashed on appeal
- Buffalo, New York teachers defy anti-strike law
2000-09-11
- International pressure for intervention into West Timor after UN staff killed
- British Paratroops kill at least 17 in Sierra Leone hostage shoot-out
- Report documents modern mass homelessness in New York City—Part 2
- The kidnapping of an actor puts the spotlight on India's bitter regional politics
- Letters on US election coverage
2000-09-12
- Police targeted protesters at Republican National Convention for their political views
- Fuel protests escalate throughout Europe
- MP3.com face up to $250m penalty for music copyright infringements
- New York Museum of Modern Art strike ends
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A sex scandal from the distant past threatens Japanese prime minister Mori
- A question on the economic reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union
2000-09-13
- State government presses ahead with lucrative rail freight privatisation in Australia
- Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light An exhibit at the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- McKinsey report on Japan demands "open door" for international capital
- Is xenophobia a legacy of Stalinist-ruled East Germany?
- Buffalo, New York teacher discusses issues in contract struggle
- British government threatens to use emergency powers against fuel protesters
- Increasing death toll of refugees trying to reach Italian coast
2000-09-14
- Big business sets out its agenda in Sri Lanka's elections
- Sydney Olympic Games to be viewed by 3.7 billion people
- Who are the People's Mujahedin of Iran?
- Actual Innocence —case studies of DNA testing freeing the wrongfully convicted in the US
- Fuel deliveries begin in Britain but petrol protests spread throughout Europe
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Canadian government to give free hand to its police forces
2000-09-15
- United Nations meets in crisis at Millennium Summit
- The scapegoating of Wen Ho Lee
- World Internet usage grows to 300 million
- Australian parliament approves military call-out legislation
- Suharto fails to appear for corruption trial again
- European Union lifts sanctions against Austria
- Britain's Labour government and trade union leaders unite to crush fuel tax protest
- Detroit police kill again
2000-09-16
- World Economic Forum summit discussions: an expression of deep-going political shifts
- El Significado Contemporáneo de la Vida y Obra de León Trotsky
- WSWS speaks with demonstrators outside the World Economic Forum in Melbourne
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Justice Department figures reveal racial bias in federal death sentences
- Democrats, Republicans unite against strike by Buffalo, New York teachers
- State racism in Austria
2000-09-18
- Documents reveal that Australia urged Indonesia to invade East Timor in 1975
- Why has the Sri Lankan government opposed plans to stop ballot rigging?
- Fuel tax protests hit Spain
- Los Angeles transit workers strike
- Tokyo governor uses earthquake drill to push rightwing, militarist agenda
- Europe's fuel tax protests begin to recede
2000-09-19
- Fuel tax protests throughout Scandinavia
- Vatican beatifies anti-Semitic Pope
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US officials threaten military action against Iraq
- Japanese film director Shohei Imamura speaks to the World Socialist Web Site
- US dollar surge brings currency market turmoil
- Workers speak out against police killings at Detroit town meeting
- Auto workers threatened with job cuts at Ohio plant
2000-09-20
- Damaged British nuclear submarine in Gibraltar harbor
- Oil prices rises could trigger cut in growth
- Hormones in the environment: how the facts were covered up
- Police fatally shoot eleven-year old boy in California drug raid
- Unions end Indian telecom strike, opening the door for privatisation
- Fiji's High Court intervenes to prevent Speight's release
- Right-wing politics dominate Danish Euro referendum
- Democrats Gore and Lieberman threaten state censorship of US entertainment industry
- Farewell, Brecht's Last Summer —a convincing portrayal of the playwright in his last days
2000-09-21
- Some thoughts on the Olympic torch relay
- Conditions in Colombo's shanties highlight Sri Lanka's housing crisis
- Peru: the disintegration of the Fujimori regime
- Olympic Notebook
- Vladimir Montesinos: the rise and fall of "our man in Lima"
- A letter on teaching "new math" in US schools
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
- Los Angeles transit strike continues
- Britain: government threatens anti-strike laws following fuel tax protests
2000-09-22
- Britain: police to challenge verdict in killing of black detainee
- Privatisation of culture: the issues involved in the Film and Television Institute of India student strike
- Image and reality in Sydney's Olympic opening ceremony
- Threat of civil war and French intervention in Côte d'Ivoire
- Ohio auto workers denounce union for deal on temporary employees
- On Attention Deficit Disorder and Ritalin
- Australian child care workers angered by cuts to conditions
2000-09-23
- West steps up threats against Yugoslavia
- Attempts to intimidate a WSWS correspondent in Sri Lanka
- Australian government launches police raids over leaked Timor documents
- The contradictory legacy of John Ruskin's artistic and social critique
- An exchange on the Rosenberg case
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Striking transit workers rally in Los Angeles
- Appeals Court upholds guilty verdict in show trial against Iranian Jews
- Fuel tax protests continue in Spain—nothing settled in rest of Europe
- On Gore's threat to censor Hollywood
2000-09-25
- Findings of study supporting US school vouchers criticized
- Michigan GM workers sue United Auto Workers local for embezzling funds
- Who makes up the artistic vanguard today?
- Another Australian warship sails to the Solomon Islands
- Indian film and television students protest over fee hikes and course structure
- The Firestone tire recall: a case study in the contradiction between public need and private profit
2000-09-26
- Australian government under pressure to drop its attack on UN committees
- Call for an Anti-Hero: A review of Tabletop, a play by Rob Ackerman
- A socialist program to end the war and social inequality
- Isaac Newton's papers up for sale
- Malaysian government puts "Islamic" arms raiders on trial for treason
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Danger of global crisis sparked G7 euro intervention
2000-09-27
- Twenty years since the military coup in Turkey
- Turkey today: cheap labor platform for transnational corporations
- Telstra's rural split-off—a new vehicle for privatisation
- A dialogue with Sri Lankan film director Prasanna Vithanage
- New survey shows widespread deprivation in Britain
- Papua New Guinea government seeks tight control over political parties
- Meetings in Berlin and London draw appreciative audience
- CIA documents confirm: Chile's secret police chief worked for Washington
2000-09-28
- US, Britain demand Milosevic resign after Yugoslav elections
- Without flinching
- An interview with David Gordon Green, director of George Washington
- Russian President Putin tries to break Berezovsky's grip
- Australia: Investigation to be conducted into police violence against anti-WEF protesters
- Lieberman's support for government-backed religion: an attack on the letter and spirit of the Constitution
- Mexican immigrants beaten in New York suburb
- Performance enhancing drugs and the commodification of elite athletes
2000-09-29
- The New York Times continues to flog Whitewater
- The business Olympics: Sydney's other games
- The New York Times and the case of Wen Ho Lee
- Further revelations of corruption in New York City unions
- The Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka replies to a supporter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Letter on Trotsky anniversary meeting
- Britain: Labour Party conference pleases big business
- Economic instability dominates South East Asia
2000-09-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US threats over Timor militias raise political tensions in Indonesia
- Germany: Nearly 100 people killed by right-wing violence over last decade
- Devastating floods leave millions homeless across Indochina
- Denmark: Referendum rejects euro heightening Europe's currency crisis
- An exchange on the Danish Euro referendum
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