Archive: 10/2000
2000-10-02
- Why are these women escaping?
- Protest in eastern Sri Lanka to mark the "disappearance" of army detainees
- An interview with Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
- Conclusion to Microsoft anti-trust case delayed: Supreme Court decides against expedited hearing
- Third Greek ferry accident brings death total to at least 78
- Australian Labor and union leaders end fuel blockades
2000-10-03
- Spain's fuel tax protests met with brutal repression
- Talks collapse in US actors strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- County workers on strike in Los Angeles
- Thousands of jobs cut amid signs of US economic slowdown
- Millions of flood victims in India desperate for food, clean water and medicine
- Newcastle hospital closure will further undermine public health
- The working class and the 2000 US elections
- BSE inquiry delivers report as scientists raise fresh concerns about "mad cow disease"
2000-10-04
- Sri Lankan government intensifies military offensive in the lead-up to election day
- Déficit de la Balanza Comercial de Los Estados Unidos Bate el Récord Mensual; Indica Problemas Económicos Profundos
- Israeli provocation against Palestinians ignites a social powder keg
- Washington steps up pressure on Haitian government
- The third of October—ten years since the reunification of Germany
- The working class and the 2000 US elections
- A multi billion dollar transfusion to private health insurers in Australia
2000-10-05
- Children in the mountains
- Xenophobic referendum defeated in Switzerland
- Socialist Equality Party's election campaign reaches hundreds of thousands in Sri Lanka
- US Green Party candidate Ralph Nader barred from site of presidential debate
- London postal strike threatened
- Striking Los Angeles transit workers defy union officials and continue walkout
- Pennsylvania death row inmates conduct hunger strike
- The working class and the 2000 US elections
- Debt-fueled US economy set up for a fall
2000-10-06
- Milosevic opponents gain control of Yugoslav parliament and state TV
- US chemical pollution threatens child health and development
- Refugees stage hunger strike against immigration crackdown in New Zealand
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- The nationalistic reflex: left-wing newspapers in Germany exhibit unrestrained enthusiasm for Putin
- The Bush-Gore debate: snapshot of a political system in decay
- Underground explosion adds to China's appalling death toll in coal mines
2000-10-07
- What does Milosevic's downfall portend?
- Fresh attacks on individual rights loom as US Supreme Court begins new term
- Israel-Palestine talks in Paris break up acrimoniously
- Zimbabwe: Promotion of the MDC by middle class radicals politically disarms the working class
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Dismissal of Suharto case heightens power struggle in Indonesia
- Letters on Wen Ho Lee and the New York Times and the Rosenberg case
- US Food and Drug Administration approves RU-486 abortion pill
2000-10-09
2000-10-10
- Pierre Elliot Trudeau & the demise of liberal Canadian nationalism
- Sri Lankans go to the polls amid violence and intimidation
- Napster offers deal to recording industry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trotsky's Europe and America: new edition of seminal essays from the 1920s published in Germany
- Irish blood bank "knowingly" risked using contaminated products, Dublin tribunal told
2000-10-11
- Once again, on the New York Times and the Nader campaign
- Israel's right wing take Middle East to the brink of war
- UN report underscores key role of foreign investment in global economic integration
- Social Democratic-Green government in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia deports Tamils
- Letters to the WSWS
- A glimpse of the working conditions being created by capitalism in China
2000-10-12
- On the politics of the Workers World Party
- Independent filmmaking that is genuinely independent
- British firms given right to spy on employees' e-mail and phone calls
- 42,000 Los Angeles county workers strike as transit walkout continues
- Indonesian budget sets stage for further political instability
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
2000-10-13
- Zimbabwe: Relations between MDC opposition and Mugabe deteriorate
- How the West organised Milosevic's downfall
- Saroja: a distortion of the racist war in Sri Lanka
- Australia: Private prisons to remain in Victoria despite government takeover of women's jail
- Indian prime minister's trip to the US: another sign of closer ties between Washington and New Delhi
2000-10-14
- AFL-CIO moves to isolate Los Angeles transit strike
- Extreme right make significant gains in Sri Lankan elections
- Australian union manoeuvres with BHP in coal mine stoppages
- Lithuania: Ruling Homeland Union suffers election collapse
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The second US presidential debate: Gore throws himself on the mercy of the media
- US threats in response to bombing of American ship in Yemen
2000-10-16
- Latest issue of the quarterly World Socialist Web Site Review now available
- A conversation with film critic Robin Wood
- Israel's war measures and the legacy of Zionism
- Britain: Memorial meeting held for socialist playwright Jim Allen
- Row over policing reform in Northern Ireland continues
- World Socialist Web Site correspondent Barbara Slaughter speaks at Jim Allen memorial meeting
2000-10-17
2000-10-18
- Violent juvenile crimes in Japan point to a deeper social crisis
- Uneasy ceasefire announced at US-Israeli-Palestinian summit
- The Internet: US court challenges online anonymity
- Former East German Stalinist leader and PDS head Gregor Gysi discovers the nation
- Australian government to pour billions into private schools
- A reader writes in praise of Bahman Ghobadi's A Time for Drunken Horses
2000-10-19
2000-10-20
- UN report on least developed countries shows worsening poverty and debt
- Australian Reconciliation Minister's comments denounced
- Death of four in Hatfield train derailment highlights safety issues on Britain's railways
- One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 1
- Britain: Financial scandal surrounding Peter Mandelson returns to haunt Labour government
- India creates first new states in 30 years
2000-10-21
- Texas death penalty report details racial bias and prosecutorial abuse
- Kumaratunga appoints an unstable coalition cabinet in Sri Lanka
- One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 2
- The contemporary significance of Leon Trotsky's life and work
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The final US presidential debate and beyond: Gore limps toward the finish line
- Deadly Ebola outbreak spreads in Uganda
- Australian military policy reappraisal amid new regional uncertainties
2000-10-23
- Less and more interesting films
- Filipino president faces calls for resignation over gambling payoffs
- One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 3
- The Internet: US Congress to consider Web filtering in schools and libraries
- Interviews with Singing Chen (Chen Xinyi), director of Bundled, and Kim Sang-Jin, director of Attack the Gas Station
2000-10-24
- Solomon Islands peace agreement entrenches ethnic divisions
- Tentative agreement reached in US commercial actors strike
- After the Arab summit: Israel escalates attack on Palestinians
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Insights into the faded hopes of the 60s generation
- A letter on "After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War"
2000-10-25
2000-10-26
- The difference between feeling and playing at feeling
- Britain: After the Hatfield rail crash—are accidents good for business?
- The contemporary significance of Leon Trotsky's life and work
- Nobel prize awarded for research into the nervous system, memory and mood
- Italy's centre-left coalition chooses Francesco Rutelli as its leading candidate
- US elections: Democrat Gore advances pro-corporate economic agenda
- Sri Lanka: the life and legacy of Sirima Bandaranaike
2000-10-27
- Trotsky's struggle against Stalin and the tragic fate of the Soviet Union
- Study finds largest US corporations avoiding billions in taxes
- Tamil detainees hacked to death in Sri Lanka by organised racist mob
- The Reith telecard scandal: another ultimatum to the Australian government
- The US elections: What accounts for the anti-Nader hysteria of the New York Times?
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Canada's "mini-budget" lets rich appropriate still greater share of social wealth
- Canadian election campaign kicks off: Liberals offer tax cuts to the rich and populist demagogy to working people
2000-10-28
- US independent counsel issues Travelgate report: an ignominious end to another anti-Clinton scandal
- The significance of Leon Trotsky's thought for Africa today
- Sri Lankan government ally suspected in murder of BBC's Jaffna correspondent
- Reuniones en Berlín y Londres Atraen a un Público Agradecido
- Ethnic violence and mass deportations of immigrants in Libya
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- General Guei ousted in Côte d'Ivoire clashes
- The Croatian experience belies Western promises of prosperity for Yugoslavia
- Readers write in on WSWS coverage of the Middle East crisis
- Impeachment not revisited
2000-10-30
- Las agresión bélica de Israel y el patrimonio del sionismo
- Two boys imprisoned for killing British toddler Jamie Bulger face possible release
- Philadelphia teachers strike
- Competitive pressures drive Chevron-Texaco mega-merger
- A reply to a supporter of the World Socialist Party of the USA
- Colombia civil war intensifies as US escalates intervention
2000-10-31
- Philadelphia teachers union calls off strike
- Big business renews pressure on New Zealand government as economy falters
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Austria: heavy losses for Haider's party in provincial elections
- Sharp slowdown in US growth rate
- Dancer in the Dark, written and directed by Lars von Trier
- Britain's official inquiry into BSE/Mad Cow Disease finds no one to blame
2000-10-5o
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