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Archive: April 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.

5 March 1998

• Mondale sent to Jakarta
  Aggressive US intervention in Indonesia

1 April 1998

• House defeats campaign finance bill
• Indonesian detainees fight mass deportations
• Readers respond to The Aesthetic Component of Socialism

2 April 1998

• Northern Marianas workers testify in Washington
  Sweatshop abuses in US island territory
• A comment on Yeltsin's sacking of cabinet
• A reader asks: are white-collar workers a part of the working class
• Book and film review: L.A. Confidential - A novelist and a filmmaker discover corruption everywhere
• More questions than answers
  Mass demonstrations in France against the fascist FN

3 April 1998

• Kim Dae Jung and unions enforce IMF program
  Korean unemployment doubles in six weeks
• Nurses strike in New York City
• Australian government plans telephone company sell-off
• Kim Dae Jung and unions enforce IMF program
  Korean unemployment doubles in six weeks
• Reader appreciates WSWS review of The Apostle

4 April 1998

• The crisis in Washington: what history tells us
  Part 2: Iran-Contra
• The dismissal of the Paula Jones suit : What it says about the Clinton sex scandal
• Thirty years since the assassination of Martin Luther King
• Some interesting films on US television
• Amid signs of widening impoverishment
  Student protests grow in Indonesia

7 April 1998

• Industry link to leukaemia and cancer confirmed
  Australian Workers Inquiry answers government challenge
• A letter from a Saginaw auto worker
• Coup threat in Paraguay
• Sony chief warns of worldwide recession
  Japan's economic crisis deepens

8 April 1998

• Crackdown on Indonesian students
• Pay soars 38 percent for US corporate chiefs
• Caterpillar worker writes to WSWS
• 25 years since the Henderson inquiry
  Poverty and inequality worsen in Australia
• Poverty in Australia: some indicators
• The background to The Full Monty
  Social deprivation in Sheffield

9 April 1998

• Town hall meeting on Social Security
  Clinton launches big business assault on retiree pensions
• Dissident miners attacked at United Mine Workers rally
• How the unions paved the way for Patrick's attack
• Government, employers, bankers collude
  Mass sackings on Australian waterfront
• On-the-spot report
  Workers rally in Sydney and Melbourne
  Union officials hose down protests

10 April 1998

• Documents prove British state organised murders in Northern Ireland
• Labour government's plan to gut the British welfare state
  Tony Blair's "shape of things to come"
• What is Japan's "Big Bang" financial deregulation?

11 April 1998

• David Walsh looks at Taste of Cherry, a new film from Iran
  Despair, hope, life
• Irish deal concluded
• Australia
  The waterfront war: why is only one side fighting?
• Political and historical issues underlying the Irish "peace" talks - An exchange of letters
• Prison deaths soar in Australia
• Some interesting films on US television, 11-17 April 1998

14 April 1998

• Strike activity in Australia at a record low
  Calm before the storm?
• The crisis in Washington: what history tells us
  Part 3: The Clinton scandals
• Letter from reader on 30 years since King assassination
• Suharto agrees to IMF dictates

15 April 1998

• A Look at Andy Warhol
• A revealing interview
  PRD of Indonesia calls for alignment with US
• New computer chip expected to lower prices
• Reader asks about conditions of life for female workers in Asia
• Readers consider the causes of the Jonesboro tragedy
• Readers exchange opinions with David Walsh on Titanic
• Monopoly in the computer software industry
  The Microsoft case
• "Rogue states" and UN inspections

16 April 1998

• Economic ministers gather in Washington
  Confronting the mounting global financial crisis
• US execution proceeds despite world condemnation
• US corporate giants announce new job cuts
  Layoffs, profit downturn raise recession threat

17 April 1998

• Taking pictures in the twentieth century

18 April 1998

• "The poor are treated like enemies"
  An interview with Iris DeMent
• Iris DeMent: Songwriter steeped in the heritage of American country and traditional music
• Some interesting films on US television, 18-24 April, 1998
• The death of Pol Pot

21 April 1998

• A moralizing view of a labor frame-up
• Washington's internal battles and the crisis of the old political order
• Australian picket line supporter calls for all-out action
  "Why do the unions keep talking about more productivity?"
• Australian Labor leaders push "peace" plan
  Workers join wharf pickets

22 April 1998

• South Korean workers protest mass retrenchments
• Washington meeting fails to discuss global financial crisis
  When will the US bubble burst?

23 April 1998

• Australian unions gave green light to waterfront sackings
  How the ACTU stopped action by oil workers
• No power in Auckland for two months
  Privatisation to proceed despite blackout
• Despite international protests
  Second immigrant executed in US
• Struggle on the Australian docks
  Patrick's methods not new
  How the unions have collaborated in mass sackings

24 April 1998

• Australian SEP national secretary lectures at universities
  A Marxist analysis of the Asian meltdown
• California initiative attacks AFL-CIO political contributions
  Proposition 226--the issues before workers

25 April 1998

• British-Irish agreement enshrines sectarian divisions
• Struggle on the Australian docks
  The real meaning of the MUA's "victory"
  Labor Party and union leaders prepare waterfront betrayal
• US labor roundup
• Präsidentschaftswahlen in Österreich
  Vorbereitung auf Regierungsbeteiligung der Rechtsradikalen
• A letter from reader in Vietnam
  On the death of Pol Pot
• Presidential elections in Austria
  Preparing to bring the neo-fascists into government
• Some interesting films on US television, 25 April - 1 May 1998

28 April 1998

• Euro to bring far-reaching changes
• Indonesian student protests defy Suharto's repression
• Ten months of the Jospin government in France
  Why are the fascists gaining influence?

29 April 1998

• Summit of the Americas
  An exercise in hypocrisy and political amnesia
• Dissension on Cuba
• General Motors British subsidiary sets the treadmill at a higher tempo
• New evidence on the role of the US and France
  Who is responsible for the genocide in Rwanda?

30 April 1998

• As slump and unemployment worsen in Japan
  Economic package provokes rifts in Hashimoto government
• As slump and unemployment worsen in Japan
  Economic package provokes rifts in Hashimoto government
• Charges brought by dissident US miners
  UMWA officials named in assault
• A reader requests articles on science and the struggle against mysticism
• Health studies document effects of social crisis
  Drug reaction epidemic in the US

25 June 1998

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  $50,000 fund launched to support World Socialist Web Site
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