Archive: June 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.
2 June 1998
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Deflation, production cuts and currency turmoil
A sign of things to come -
An attack on democratic rights
Former CompuServe executive convicted in Internet censorship case - Indonesian regime to retain ban on socialist parties
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Australia
The politics of 'National Sorry Day' - The politics of Australia's 'National Sorry Day'
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WSWS : Español
Un ataque contra los derechos democráticos -
A spokesman for American militarism and reaction
Barry Goldwater dead at 89 - Observations from a visit to China
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Monopoly and the development of computer software
The US government case against Microsoft - The intriguing, the disappointing and the rest - The San Francisco International Film Festival: a look at 25 works - Part I
- Waiting-list for hospital treatment in Britain reaches record level
3 June 1998
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Strike by Air France pilots disrupts preparations for World Cup
Socialist Party denounces pilots' action - 'Deadly Feasts' - A valuable examination of the "Mad Cow" epidemic
- A contribution to discussion on jazz history
- British government concerned with Indonesian investments
- Judge drops most charges against union officials who attacked US miners
- New York City mayor attacks taxi drivers
- The film Wilde: Additional considerations
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Australia:
Workers and farmers outraged by toxic dump
4 June 1998
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Amidst deepening social crisis
IMF dictates terms to Indonesia - Unions signal readiness to settle in Air France strike
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25 films: the intriguing, the disappointing and the rest
David Walsh looks at the San Francisco film festival
Part II - Indian budget sharply increases military spending
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Six and a half years after the breakup of the USSR
Russian economic crisis vindicates warning by the ICFI - The first image of a possible extrasolar planet
5 June 1998
- Anti-immigrant measure passed in California
- Jospin government threatens to use military to break Air France pilots' strike
- An appreciation of discussion of aesthetics
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Britain's Labour government issues new policy on trade unions
What is "Fairness at Work" really about? - Growing demands for the seizure of Suharto's empire
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The Stephen Lawrence inquiry
Police cover-up of racist killing unravels in Britain - Reader assesses coverage of workers struggles on WSWS
- Reader comments on "The struggle for democracy in Indonesia"
- Reader compliments review of Park Kwang-Su's A Single Spark
- Reader differs with WSWS review of Apostle
- Reader enjoys LA Confidential review
- Reader: Public software projects provide innovation
- Readers comment on US school shootings
- The Suharto financial dynasty
- The photographer Walter Rosenblum: Some kind of respect
- The Starr investigation: a creeping coup d'etat
6 June 1998
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The Sound of One Hand Clappingwritten and directed by Richard FlanaganThe Boysdirected by Rowan Woods, screenplay by Stephen Sewell
Two Australian films - Unions desperate to secure a deal in Air France strike
- Motorola to eliminate 15,000 jobs
- Some interesting films on US television, June 6-12
- Workers struggles around the world
9 June 1998
- Air France threatens to impose pay cuts on striking pilots
- Asian crisis breaches Australian "firewall"
- Australian government reinforces ties to Indonesian military
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David Walsh looks at the San Francisco film festival
Blacklisted film director John Berry honored -
Unrest grows in Indonesia
Habibie pledges to implement IMF program - An exchange on Australia's "Sorry Day"
- Michigan strike causes parts shortage for GM
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Management, mayor threaten to break strike
Philadelphia transit workers' walkout continues - South Korean unions call off national strike
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Independent counsel escalates attack on democratic rights
Starr seeks overturn of attorney-client privilege
10 June 1998
- A note on the Air France struggle -- lessons of the 1989 Australian pilots strike
- Air France strike disrupts World Cup football match
- Strike at GM parts factory shuts assembly plants
- Abacha's death fuels crisis in Nigeria
- Another incident with Air Force One
- Judge threatens supporters of Philadelphia transit strikers
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New budgetary cutbacks
New Zealand dollar dives - Reader comments on The Boys
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Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi
The theater and its corporate sponsors - US courts back General Motors' reduction of retiree benefits
11 June 1998
- Air France pilots' unions end strike
- Experiencing Porgy and Bess
- Historical and social issues behind the Eritrean-Ethiopian border war
- Racist party dominates Australian election
- Arnold Schoenberg on Gershwin
- Arnold Schoenberg on Gershwin
- Labour goverment prosecutes asylum seekers in Britain
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Metal Center strike in sixth day
New GM strike threat in Flint - Racists murder black man in Texas
- Riot police used against students in East London
12 June 1998
- How the Air France deal was reached
- "The situation for refugees is the same as it was under the CDU"
- "With respect to education, the Red-Green government has made a step backwards"
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A balance sheet of Germany's "Magdeburg model"
The PDS-supported Red-Green coalition in Sachsen-Anhalt - British company leaks deadly gas into residential areas
- Former British cabinet minister charged with perjury
- Second GM strike in Flint, Michigan threatens to close operations of US automaker
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Leaked documents prove government collusion in mass sacking
Unions seek job-cutting deal on Australian waterfront -
Some interesting films on US television, June 13-19
Wednesday, June 17
13 June 1998
- Multinationals demand that Indonesian President Habibie protect their assets
- A quarter of all schools in Bradford, England set to close
- Indonesian military threatens crackdown on protest
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Mayor urges unions to resume talks
Philadelphia transit walkout continues - Sri Lankan government tightens censorship
- The murder of James Byrd, Jr. - Racial violence and the social forces in America that fuel it
- Workers struggles around the world - Update
- Workers struggles around the world--13 June 1998
15 June 1998
- The Truman Show: Further signs of life in Hollywood
- Bulworth and The Truman Show: The New York Times' Mr. Rothstein responds
- Clinton, Starr and Libertarianism: An exchange
- The 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival
- WSWS answers questions on coverage of Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict
16 June 1998
- British firefighters strike against cuts and job losses in Essex
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Flint strikes force GM to idle more plants
Global changes in auto industry underlie struggle over jobs -
Recession hits Japan
What's behind global "economic schizophrenia"? - Globalization book featured at Australian bookstore
- International labour struggles
- London Underground workers strike
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Destabilization campaign targeted White House
Report charges illegal links between Starr and media - What makes the Celtic Tiger run?
- Strikes threaten to halt GM's North American operations
17 June 1998
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Nach dem Atomwaffentest von Pakistan
Drohende Kriegsgefahr auf dem indischen Subkontinent - Further moves to privatise education in Australia
- He Got Game: More of Spike Lee's filmmaking
- NATO air maneuvers near Kosovo foreshadow new and wider war in the Balkans
18 June 1998
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"Flawed as the Agreement is in parts, it can change the culture of politics here"
Kate Fearon of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition - AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies: Some serious questions
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Closure threatened in mining disaster town of Moura
Australian coal union imposes sweeping job cuts -
"There has to be unity amongst working class people"
Vincent McKenna, former member of the IRA -
Art Gallery of New South Wales acquires Braque's Le Verre d'Absinthe
A 'new artistic concept of space' -
A WSWS report from Belfast
Divergent views on the Northern Ireland Agreement - Paddy Lynn of the Workers Party - "I want to see mainstream politics coming back to Northern Ireland"
- Republican leader of US Senate calls homosexuality a "sin"
- Terry Carling, Northern Ireland Officer of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions - "It is the best thing for investment since the sliced loaf"
- The Starr investigation and the destabilization of the Clinton Administration: Readers respond
- US Supreme Court ruling: a further blow to legal aid for the poor
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As two-week strike cuts production by 80 percent
GM official threatens to slash more US jobs
19 June 1998
- Geschichtliche und soziale Hintergründe des eritreisch-äthiopischen Grenzkriegs
- Strike at Canadian paper giant
- US intervention cannot halt Japan breakdown
- Brill article details media role in plot to oust Clinton
- US Senate kills tobacco bill
- Some interesting films on US television, June 20-26
20 June 1998
- Clinton calls for end to GM strike
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Das Vorgehen des Sonderermittlers Starr gegen Clinton
Ein schleichender Staatsstreich -
India: the BJP-RSS nexus
Fascistic movement plays critical role in India's ruling coalition - Taste of Cherry: An invigorating cinematic experience
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Reports document worldwide epidemic
The worst year in history for tuberculosis - Workers struggles around the world--20 June 1998
23 June 1998
- Dayton GM workers critical of UAW leaders
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Three cheers for small-mindedness!
Joschka Fischer's answer to globalisation
WSWS review of a new book by the leader of Germany's Greens -
Ein Hoch auf den Kleinkrämer
Joschka Fischers Antwort auf die Globalisierung - UAW convention opens as impact of GM strike widens
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Two hundred richest own $1 trillion
Gap between rich and poor is wider than ever - Music is international: the film Comedian Harmonists
- New Zealand slides into recession
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Australian report criticises 'casemix' system
Patients suffer under new hospital funding scheme
24 June 1998
- Case against nine asylum seekers in Britain collapses
- Essex fire fighters take action
- Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly take place tomorrow
- Japan's banking crisis: the global implications
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As military threatens repression
Strikes break out in Indonesia -
Wisconsin court permits aid to religious schools
The right-wing politics behind school vouchers - Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco: Life for some in the "very early 1980s"
25 June 1998
- Clinton's trip to China--shadowed by crisis at home and abroad
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Jobs and conditions destroyed on Australian waterfront
Maritime union deal aids Howard government - Britain's Labour government sets minimum wage
- Drug-resistant germs: a global crisis
26 June 1998
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Former US Ambassador Marshall Green dead at 82
A key participant in Indonesian massacre - Alfred Kazin, champion of American literature: An appreciation
- Army crackdown halts Indonesian union protest
- GM prepares for long strike
- Political police strengthened in Australian state
- US poll shows public disgust with Starr investigation
27 June 1998
- Australian bus drivers demand increased security
- China: a mounting tide of working class anger
- French government tank maker to cut one-third of labor force
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East Asian financial crisis rocking India
Future of BJP-led government again in doubt - Greek bank workers' strike called off
- Supreme Court upholds arts censorship
- Sydney nurses protest jobs threat
- 300,000 march in Rome to demand jobs
- HIV/AIDS epidemic ravages Africa
- Italian chemical workers block railway line
- Japanese pilots union cancels strike
- Philadelphia transit strike nears fifth week
- Pictures of the 'floating world'
- Polish steelworkers under attack
- Quebec nurses' action ruled illegal
- Some interesting films on US television, June 27-July 3
- South African government to sack thousands
- Tentative hospital workers' settlement in New York
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Book Review: Civilising Global Capital by Mark Latham, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1998
The Political Economy of 'New Labor' - Volvo announces job cuts in southern Sweden
- Workers struggles around the world -- 27 June 1998
30 June 1998
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Australian car workers speak on GM strike
"International competitiveness is the program of every government" -
One year since the start of the 'Asian meltdown'
Growing signs of world slump - Economic downturn hits New Zealand
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Walkout at General Motors enters fourth week
GM's hard line staggers United Auto Workers officials -
Legal case exposes social chasm in New York
Immigrant workers sue Donald Trump - Philadelphia transit workers continue strike
- Puerto Rican strikes hit phone privatization
8 July 1998
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