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Archive: January 1998

The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.

3 January 1998

• The Aesthetic Component of Socialism

4 January 1998

• The Significance and Implications of Globalisation
  A Marxist Assessment

6 January 1998

• Stalinism in Eastern Europe: the Rise and Fall of the GDR

7 January 1998

• Castroism and the Politics of Petty-Bourgeois Nationalism

10 January 1998

• Why are Trade Unions Hostile to Socialism?
  Two vexed questions

17 January 1998

• León Trotsky y el destino del socialismo en el Siglo XX
  Respuesta al profesor Eric Hobsbawn

22 January 1998

• The Clinton crisis - the real political issues
• Whitewater, Paula Jones and the ultra-right 

23 January 1998

• China: Economy 'extraordinarily precarious'
• Immigrant workers: Millions face expulsion
• Indonesia: Cracks in the Suharto regime 
• Japan: A mounting debt crisis
• South Korea: Unions agree to impose IMF dictates
• Thailand: PM pleads for changes to IMF terms

26 January 1998

• Clinton crisis signals a further shift to the right 
• Right-wing “dirty tricks” and the Clinton scandal 

27 January 1998

• Fidel and the Pope
• On the eve of the State of the Union address 
  The political issues behind the Clinton scandal begin to emerge 
• Hillary Clinton on Today:  
  What was left unsaid 
• Gingrich, Clinton and Iraq 

29 January 1998

• Japan's finance minister resigns  
• Massive job cuts announced 
• New York Times cites World Socialist Web Site coverage of Asian crisis 

30 January 1998

• Warnings mount of 1930s-style deflation
• Why are the critics lauding Titanic? 
• Wag the Dog: Not everyone is fooled 
• France: Popularity of Socialist prime minister plummets

31 January 1998

• Unrest in Indonesia
• International school examines the century's central problems of history, politics and culture
• Clinton's State of the Union speech
  The politics of illusion