Archive: 12/2000
2000-12-01
- Sexual and physical abuse in Australia's refugee detention camps
- UN climate summit fails amid bitter recriminations between US and Europe
- Government leaves thousands of flood victims in eastern Sri Lanka without adequate aid
- Republican witch-hunt over military ballots incites anti-Gore comments from officer corps
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Government cover-up over South African factory fire
- Florida legislature moves to override vote and name pro-Bush electors
- William Blake: A radical visionary
2000-12-02
- US Supreme Court hearing highlights state conspiracy against democratic rights
- New Jersey internal records document widespread racial profiling of black and Hispanic motorists
- Senate removes obstacle to a speedy impeachment trial for Filipino president
- Microsoft appeal against break-up, claiming judge was biased
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korean union agrees to implement mass layoffs at Daewoo
- Growing signs of US economic downturn—job cuts hit auto and technology sectors
- The death of six-year-old Joseph Abdulla reveals dominance of extreme right in East Germany
2000-12-04
- Split in Sri Lanka's Sinhala extremists signals emergence of a fascist organisation
- An exchange with a reader on postmodernism
- Britain's air traffic control service to be privatised
- African-Americans, Haitians in Miami-Dade demand recount
- Precinct voting studies suggest sizable Gore victory margin in Florida
- United Nations AIDS report confirms worst epidemic in history
2000-12-05
- US election turmoil marks the onset of a revolutionary crisis
- The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 1
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Israeli prime minister announces early election
- Court rulings in US election crisis attack democratic rights
- Social conditions in Sri Lanka accelerate spread of dengue fever
- Washington think tank report calls for the use of "excessive force" and torture against Palestinians
- The death of Joseph Abdulla: German Christian Democrats encourage anti-immigrant blacklash
2000-12-06
- Turkish banking crisis: another indication of global turbulence
- British intelligence services seek wide powers to spy on phone calls and Internet usage
- Row continues over police reform in Northern Ireland
- Florida A&M students describe Republican attack on voting rights
- Six children die in Detroit house fire: faulty fire-fighting equipment sent to scene of blaze
2000-12-07
- Australia and Portugal to set up an East Timorese army
- The historical roots of the confrontation brewing in West Papua
- European Union summit in Nice shrouded in controversy
- The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 2
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Republicans to convene Florida legislature to impose Bush electors
- More letters on the US presidential election
- Britain's press warns that US election crisis threatens global stability
2000-12-08
- South Africa: Setback for ANC in local elections
- Britain: Labour government outlines law-and-order election platform
- IMF presses for more job destruction in South Korea
- Mumia Abu-Jamal supporter jailed for speech at Republican National Convention protest
- AFL-CIO rally in Tallahassee: unions offer no strategy to fight denial of voting rights
- Bush attack on voting rights continues in arguments before Florida Supreme Court
- Domino Sugar strike in Brooklyn enters eighteenth month
- At least 11 dead in building collapse in southern China
2000-12-09
- British government exploits death of 10-year-old boy to mount law-and-order campaign
- Impeachment drive against Taiwan president suspended
- Anger at decision not to prosecute police officers for killing unarmed London man
- Absentee vote cases provide evidence of Republican vote-rigging in Florida
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German radicals defend Israeli state brutality in the West Bank-Part 1
- Executions continue in Texas and Florida: Electoral conspirators George W. and Jeb Bush champion state killings
- Florida Supreme Court ruling: right to vote at center of US election crisis
- Striking dock workers shot dead in Bangladesh
2000-12-11
- Britain: Labour's proposed urban regeneration plans highlight the growing social divide
- Another fatal Indian rail crash highlights decades of official neglect
- German radicals defend Israeli state brutality in the West Bank-Part 2
- Lessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new "irrepressible conflict"
- Britain: Chinook helicopter crash inquiry prompts allegations of government cover-up
2000-12-12
- Thousands of manufacturing jobs lost in Australian state of Victoria
- US Supreme Court embraces a century-old legacy of racism and reaction
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A renewed diplomatic push for negotiations over Kashmir
- Democrats prostrate before Supreme Court assault on democratic rights
- Letters on Supreme Court intervention in US elections
- Israel: Prime Minister Barak resigns in bid to neutralise his opponents
2000-12-13
- The reform of France's unemployment benefits scheme
- Lessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new "irrepressible conflict"—questions and discussion
- Chilean court overturns Pinochet arrest order
- GM to phase out Oldsmobile brand and cut 16,000 jobs in the US and Europe
- European Union summit in Nice increases weight of larger countries
- Sharp conflicts at the French Socialist Party congress
- Jacksonville voters describe Election Day fraud and intimidation
- Australian Labor Party votes for Bill to boost wealthy private schools
2000-12-14
- Funding crisis forces hospital emergency closures in Western Australia
- Britain: Vauxhall car workers protest mass layoffs
- The case of Leonard Peltier: notorious frame-up of Native American activist returns to public spotlight
- Britain demands greater political control over Africa: the case of Malawi
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Cabinet reshuffle amplifies factional tensions within Japanese ruling party
- Report by B'Tselem human rights group highlights Israeli brutality against Palestinians
- Supreme Court overrides US voters: a ruling that will live in infamy
2000-12-15
- President Clinton pledges clampdown on terrorism in Ireland
- Gore concession speech: Democrats capitulate to right-wing attack on voting rights
- Côte d'Ivoire: President Gbagbo stokes up ethnic conflict
- Letters on the US election crisis
- Letters on "Lessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new 'irrepressible conflict'"
- Australian unions campaign for "reasonable" working hours
- Staff protest axing of key programs at Australian government broadcaster
2000-12-16
- Romania after the election
- Evidence mounts of Estrada's involvement in illegal gambling racket
- Australian government unveils new interventionist military doctrine
- The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 3
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- FBI agents march on White House to oppose clemency for political prisoner Leonard Peltier
- Europe's right-wing media gloats, while liberals fear discrediting of US democracy following Supreme Court verdict
2000-12-18
- Drug resistant pathogen kills patients in Sri Lanka's leading public hospital
- Report details history of Switzerland's anti-Gypsy policies
- Australia: New evidence that gambling industry profits from the poorest suburbs
- Detroit house fire claims three more lives
- Art and working class life, an attempt
- Bush prepares a government of reaction and militarism
2000-12-19
- Norway's extreme right Progress Party wracked by internal feuding
- Pakistani regime allows jailed prime minister Sharif to go into exile
- The American media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 4
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fiji's military government wins more explicit backing from Australia and New Zealand
- Electoral College votes for Bush, sealing an anti-democratic election
- Letters on the post-election crisis in the US
2000-12-20
- Not so distant, but still distant
- Spain imposes new anti-immigrant legislation
- New evidence of brutality inside Australia's refugee camps
- European Court of Justice allows complaint against death sentence by Kurdish Workers Party leader Ocalan
- Interviews from David North's lecture in Sydney, Australia
- As Bush comes to Washington, US economy heads towards recession
2000-12-21
- Australian government to abolish welfare entitlements
- Britain's Conservatives spout racist law and order rhetoric
- Letters on the WSWS coverage of Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Detroit police gun down another mentally ill man
- US Congress, Clinton shelve aid to low-paid and immigrant workers
- Hayes-Tilden dispute of 1876 foreshadowed eruption of class conflict
2000-12-22
- Australian power workers reject union attempt to impose job cuts
- Turkish state suppresses prison revolts
- Family ties, political bias linked US Supreme Court justices to Bush camp
- Sri Lankan government and LTTE inch closer to negotiations
- New York City police seek new restrictions on public protests
- Turks mount protests in London
- Recent letters to the WSWS
2000-12-23
- Australian welfare agencies unable to meet Christmas need for assistance
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wall Street Journal targets Jesse Jackson: opening salvo in an attack on public dissent
- Middle East negotiations in Washington amidst continuing violence
- Britain: Children targeted by police investigating ten-year-old's death
- Letter on the Turkish prison crackdown
- Rwanda on the offensive in Congo War
2000-12-27
- World Bank and donor countries set the agenda for Sri Lankan government
- Pinochet’s legal victories may see him escape trial
- The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 5
- US mayors report increasing hunger and homelessness in American cities
- The Bohemian Grove club: America's ruling elite at work and play
2000-12-28
- Turner Prize award to Wolfgang Tillmans hailed as shift in focus
- Retrial underway in the case of the "Hsichih Trio"
- Terence Davies' The House of Mirth: a comment and a press conference with the director
- The political crisis in the US: its implications for Europe and the world
- Christmas night fire kills 311 in central China
- Electrical utilities hold California hostage
2000-12-29
- Israeli-Palestinian negotiations stalled
- Two stowaways fall to their deaths from British planes
- Australian government refuses to search for missing refugees
- Open appeals to chauvinism divide the Parti Québécois
- Britain: Labour Home Secretary supports reinstatement of racist policeman
- A reader comments on The House of Mirth
- One critic's picks for top jazz and blues albums of 2000
- George W. Bush: president-elect or president-select?
2000-12-30
- US economy on the way to recession
- US economy on the way to recession
- Judge bends law to toss out convictions of Los Angeles police
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korean police storm bank workers' occupation
- Britain's Labour government kowtows to fox hunting lobby
- Chinese authorities commit workers' leader to psychiatric hospital to halt protests
- Australia's Centenary of Federation inspires little public enthusiasm
- US targets Venezuela: Bush plans aggressive policy in Latin America
- David Walsh chooses his favorite films of 2000
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