Archive: March 1999
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.
2 March 1999
- The Apple opens in the US
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Justice for forced laborers?
The Deutsche Bank, Auschwitz and German business's compensation fund - Internet crackdown in China
- One in five young Britons suffer mental health problems
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A founder of American Trotskyism
Albert Glotzer dead at 90 - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New Zealand prime minister storms out of parliament over tourism scandal
- The contradictions of surging US growth
3 March 1999
- The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 1
- Canada's Official Opposition to found new right-wing party
- Canadian "unite the right" conference adopts revealing resolutions
- Hackers shut down East Timor Internet addresses
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France's HIV-infected blood trial set to conclude this week
Former prime minister unlikely to be found guilty -
Supreme Court issues ruling on "Los Angeles Eight"
Sweeping attack on the democratic rights of immigrants - 1,700 at New York rally to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Job losses mount in Australia as company profits rise
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A socially-progressive alternative to the onslaught on jobs and democratic rights in Australia
Socialist Equality Party New South Wales Election Statement - Singapore opposition leader jailed
4 March 1999
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The Ford Rouge disaster
US auto industry profits rise along with injuries and deaths in factories - The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 2--the latest from Tavernier and a film from Turkey
- The Broaddrick affair: the media renews the war against the White House
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Falling investment, rising debt
Australian economy hits troubled waters - Victim of Ford Rouge explosion says power plant was "running on bubble gum and bobby pins"
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Observations of Ghana
A cruel juxtaposition of wealth and poverty - Up to 50,000 bank workers face retrenchment in Indonesia
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As US bombing raids continue
Spy revelations vindicate Iraqi charges - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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The Pope and Pinochet
Why the Vatican defends mass murder
5 March 1999
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Europe:
Reform of Common Agricultural Policy generates bitter conflicts - On the origins of HIV
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The singer and the song explored
The Voice of the People: A 20 CD collection of folk song by Topic Records - Clinton administration argues for right to expel asylum-seekers
- Nigerian election fraud leaves elite in control
- Privacy rights threatened by Intel's new computer chip
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A conspiracy against the East Timorese
UN intervention into East Timor being prepared - US imposes tariff sanctions on European luxury goods
6 March 1999
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Meaning well is still the opposite of art
Affliction, directed by Paul Schrader -
Republican candidate advances fascistic agenda
Buchanan announces presidential campaign for 2000 -
With television cameras rolling
Police raid home of British Columbia premier - Despite the promise of peace and economic prosperity, Northern Ireland has become a barren land
- US pilot who killed twenty on ski gondola acquitted
- Korean union federation quits government economic committee
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Monica Lewinsky describes intimidation and threats by Kenneth Starr
- Anwar's wife to challenge Malaysian prime minister at next elections
- Unanswered questions over the police bashing of Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim
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Sri Lankan plantation workers expose frame-up by estate management
Socialist Equality Party launch campaign in their defence - Some interesting films on US television, March 6-12
9 March 1999
- Bangladesh: With protests intensifying, investors decry rivalry among political elite
- An exchange of letters on Stalinism, Trotskyism and the Communist Party of Canada
- The rise and decline of Pauline Hanson's One Nation
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Widening gulf between rich and poor in New Zealand
- Much more than bananas at stake in US-Europe trade conflict
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Behind Gough Whitlam's outburst
Leaked documents reveal Australian Labor leader's East Timor role
10 March 1999
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Natural life and social life
David Walsh reviews The Adopted Son (Beshkempir), directed by Aktan Abdykalykov - The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 3--documentary films from Germany, Switzerland and Austria
- China spy scare: a new stage in the political warfare in Washington
- Letters on the acquittal of US marine pilot
- Police falsified evidence about 1989 Hillsborough football disaster
- Tamil Nadu journalist shocked by poverty in Glasgow
- Supreme Court delays Clinton plans to deport thousands of legal immigrants
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Inquiry into racist murder of Stephen Lawrence
Macpherson report leaves major questions unanswered - Cost of Sri Lankan racist war equals 18 months of the country's GDP
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Protests hit Pennsylvania welfare cuts
Thousands face benefits cutoff as time limit expires
11 March 1999
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Australia:
Bipartisan push to further cut youth wages -
The Berlin Film Festival - Part 4
Two German films about fascism -
Toronto school support staff workers strike
But unions oppose challenge to Bill 160 -
Toronto strikers speak out
"What's really at issue is the future of public education" -
More British arms to Africa
Blair government intervenes in Republic of Congo - Despite growing protests, US states execute two more men
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The Ford Rouge explosion
Family of injured worker gets restraining order to prevent Ford from destroying evidence - Auto workers write to WSWS about fatal explosion at Ford plant
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Papua New Guinea in legal battle with mercenary outfit
- Iris DeMent song provokes intense debate
12 March 1999
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Legacy of oppression
Clinton's crocodile tears for Central America -
Inequality and police brutality in New York City
The social underpinnings of the murder of Amadou Diallo - General strike in Ecuador opposes IMF austerity measures
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Australia:
New disciplinary measures against NSW teachers -
French HIV-tainted blood trial
Court acquits former prime minister - The politics of the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party): a balance sheet
- A remarkable anthology of world poetry
- Graduate students strike at the University of Michigan
- Iris DeMent song provokes intense debate
13 March 1999
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State elections in Austria
Landslide victory for right-wing extremists -
Australian troops placed on alert for intervention in neighbouring countries
East Timor, Indonesia, PNG suggested as possible targets - The Battle for Chile: a heartfelt testament to Pinochet's victims
- On WSWS coverage of US politics
- US layoffs up 41 percent since February 1998
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Aftermath of the US impeachment drive: Starr presses persecution of Susan McDougal
- Texas sets date for execution of Canadian Stanley Faulder
- Some interesting films on US television, March 13-19
16 March 1999
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Dancemaker: A Tribute to Paul Taylor
A documentary directed and produced by Matthew Diamond - Japanese contraction reveals global tendencies
- Australian job figures reveal long-term decline
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Amid further restructuring and layoffs
South Korean unions threaten national strikes - Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Behind the corruption scandals
Big business demands a corporate Olympics - Tentative settlement in Toronto public school strike
17 March 1999
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New findings present theoretical challenge
Universe expanding faster than expected -
Mass resignation by European Commission
Path cleared for reform of European Union -
Geraldine Rawson's hearing adjourned until May
An important test case for teachers' rights -
Five million US families without safe and affordable housing
Changes in housing law will impact the poor and elderly -
Nationwide tour opposes Iraq sanctions
Former UN relief coordinator speaks in Detroit -
Civil rights lawyer murdered in Northern Ireland
Crime reveals links between police and paramilitaries - The resignation of German Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine--the end of Bad Godesberg
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Background to the recent Nigerian elections
General Obasanjo more than just a "friend" of the Americans -
Under conditions of social breakdown
UN talks propose autonomy ballot for East Timor
18 March 1999
- Australia's richest man cleared of breaching media laws
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10-year-old boy charged with manslaughter in Australia
Media sensationalises Sydney hearing - Ecuador on brink of civil war as government deepens austerity measures
- Michigan judge condemns 16 year old to life sentence with no parole
20 March 1999
18 March 1999
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- At least 11 deaths in Amtrak collision in Illinois
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In run-up to June 2 elections
Political and social tensions mount in South Africa -
Sweden edges towards adopting the euro
New attacks prepared against working class
19 March 1999
- Registration of Political Parties Act used to disbar Socialist Party in British elections
- Canadian Parliament debates motion to study scrapping national currency
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Malaysia's murky politics
Mahathir crows over Sabah election win -
In second week of Arkansas trial
Witnesses undermine Starr case against Susan McDougal - World Poetry and the English language
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Hospitals crisis in Tasmania
State Labor government seeks to balance budget at the expense of public health - Tourist murders expose Ugandan success claims
20 March 1999
- Britain: Labour's budget sets stage for further attacks on welfare
- Indonesian bank workers protest closures and job losses
- Socialist opponent of Stalinism dies in New York
- US, NATO threaten bombing in Yugoslavia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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New South Wales Election Notebook
A law and order bidding war against the youth -
Australian authorities yet to respond
More protests against exclusion of Tamil socialist - Some interesting films on US television, March 20-26
23 March 1999
- World Bank chief sounds the alarm
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Human BSE, nvCJD
Statistics point to increased incidence of brain-wasting disease in Britain - Dayton, Ohio union officials defend KKK member
- Death penalty opponents speak in Detroit
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More than 200 dead and 30,000 homeless
Tensions high on Indonesian island of Ambon - War in Kosovo draws nearer
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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David Walsh looks at the Oscars
The Academy Awards: Hollywood at its worst - A letter from South Africa
24 March 1999
- European Human Rights Commission challenges UK sentencing procedures in the Jamie Bulger case
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Canada's new youth crime law
Liberals embrace the right's social agenda - Clinton at the Gridiron Club: making light of a political coup
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Account of McCarthy period slanders socialist opponents of Stalinism
Review of Ellen Schrecker's Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America - Dayton Accord near collapse: the political crisis in Bosnia
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New South Wales election
Labor's jobs program--no hope for the unemployed
Comment by Terry Cook, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Newcastle - In a fresh attack on Kurdish democratic rights, UK watchdog shuts down Med TV station
- Lafontaine's resignation: how German business pressured the government to change course
- New Zealand firefighters' union gives go-ahead for job cuts and restructuring
- The British working class and the Pinochet affair: what accounts for labour's silence?
25 March 1999
- House Republicans block vote to condemn racist group
- Letters from WSWS readers on Elia Kazan and the Oscars
- Election slump for Finnish social democrats
- Workers struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- US-NATO bombs fall on Serbia: the "New World Order" takes shape
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Questions posed by fires at election office
Australian state election reveals youth opposition to Labor
Comment by Richard Phillips, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Bankstown - British Lords issue ruling on Pinochet appeal--stage set for further litigation in extradition case
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Victorian Labor Party pitches for big business support
New leader installed
26 March 1999
- Angolan civil war escalates
- Another victim of welfare reform: 11-month-old baby dies in Pennsylvania house fire
- Indian budget lauded by big business
- Whom will the United States bomb next?
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Right-wing campaign against Clinton White House
McDougal trial exposes Starr-media conspiracy
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26 March 1999
27 March 1999
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Political police will hack into computers
Wide new powers for Australian spy agency - War dominates the European Union summit in Berlin
- General strike by Israeli public sector workers
- Stanley Kubrick--an appreciation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- One in five British adults have serious problems reading and counting
- Some interesting films on US television, March 27-April 2
- US military uses Yugoslavia as testing ground for high-tech weaponry
30 March 1999
- Rallies in Australian cities denounce NATO attack
- Thousands demonstrate in Germany against NATO military strikes
- British Liberal media and ex-radicals declare support for bombing of Kosovo
- Worldwide protests against US-NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
- Fictitious capital and the rise of the Dow
- Explosion at Michigan fireworks factory kills at least four workers
- US, NATO prepare public opinion for ground war against Serbia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Volatile result in New South Wales election
Support for old parties plunges - Three day strike by New Zealand nurses
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An oddly human work
David Walsh reviews Eastwood's True Crime
31 March 1999
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Testimony before United Nations Human Rights Commission
Amnesty International condemns US for executions and police brutality - Canada: Liberals adopt emergency law to end federal workers strike
- Yugoslav immigrant condemns US bombing
- Michigan fireworks factory cited for repeated safety violations before fatal blast
- Ireland: Report cites Royal Ulster Constabulary hostility to murdered civil rights lawyer
- Interview with an actor on the Elia Kazan controversy: "I think it was one of the darkest periods in our history"
- Clinton signals a shift to a wider war against Serbia
- New York welfare policy claims a second infant's life
- Britain's Home Secretary considers freedom for Pinochet
- NATO attack on Serbia has repercussions for Europe as a whole
- Sri Lankan bank workers defy court injunction
19 March 1999
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