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Archive: September 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.

31 August 1998

• Socialist Equality Party to stand candidates in Australia

1 September 1998

• A comment on the WSWS review of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and a reply by David Walsh
• A comment on the film reviews in the WSWS
• A rude awakening in store after the German elections
  All parties plan rigorous social cuts
• Amid global economic meltdown
  Australian government calls crisis election
• Changes in airline industry behind Northwest pilots strike
• Market crash portends major political shifts in the United States
• Telephone workers union agrees to productivity pay and forced overtime

2 September 1998

• "Modern" German Social Democrats - Jost Stollmann--from multimillionaire to future economics minister
• New Release from Mehring Books -- Major Cultural Event
  Art as the Cognition of Life
  By Aleksandr Konstantinovich Voronsky
• Clinton's transportation secretary intervenes in Northwest pilots' strike
• Colombian general served CIA, death squads and drug dealers
• Job cuts fuel giant profits in Australian telecommunications
• LTTE hunting down socialists
  Redouble efforts to secure release of SEP members
• Minority government installed in New Zealand
• Private armies involved in the Congo war
• Alexander Cockburn on the Clinton crisis:
  Prostration before reaction
• Remarks from the translator
• Amid mounting international criticism
  US backpedals over Sudan raid

3 September 1998

• The market, planning and socialism
• "Tough love" message from Russia's false friends
• Air Canada pilots strike
• Under the Skin, written and directed by Carine Adler
  Bad behavior
• Salesman for a failed system
  Clinton preaches for capitalism in Moscow visit
• First Socialist Equality Party election broadcasts
• Growing child poverty in Germany
• Significant breakthrough in diagnosis of human BSE
• Socialist Equality Party begins election campaign in Germany
• South Korean Hyundai workers rebuff union leaders
• ILO report predicts:
  Two thirds of Indonesians to be in poverty by mid-1999

4 September 1998

• British parliament votes to suspend civil liberties
• As Colombia devalues currency
  Financial crisis spreads through Latin America
• Intense conflict over Japanese bank "restructuring"
• Malaysia erects currency barriers as economy plunges into recession
• Man-made factors revealed in Wollongong storm disaster
• Reader asks about US bombing of baby milk plant during Gulf war
• Russia descends into economic and political chaos
• The Northwest, Air Canada strikes and the globalization of the airline industry
• Thousands of riot police attack Korean workers
• Socialist Equality Party Election Statement '98
  For a socialist alternative
• Workers struggles around the world: 5 September 1998

5 September 1998

• Minnesota governor calls for presidential intervention in Northwest strike
• Prosecutor's murder case against two Chicago boys collapses
• Some interesting films on US television, September 5-11
• Tensions mount over oil-rich Timor
• The German Elections: Letters and e-mails ask more about the Socialist Equality Party and its policies
• War, famine and now pestilence
  Sleeping sickness ravages Central Africa

8 September 1998

• Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt, published by Harper Collins
  An Irish childhood remembered
• Australian military readied to intervene in Indonesia
• Elite opinion and public opinion
  Reflections on the class divide in America
• Growing fears grip world markets
• As Congo war continues
  Kabila gains support from UN, South Africa
• Lieberman delivers "the most unkindest cut of all"

9 September 1998

• Japanese filmmaker dead at 88
  Akira Kurosawa’s achievement
• George Orwell and the British Foreign Office
• A balance sheet of the Yeltsin era
• A letter on auto industry job cuts
• Indonesian students demand Habibie's resignation
• LTTE arrests two more Tamil socialists
  Labor and civil rights organizations must demand halt to repression of SEP
• Public meeting in Australia condemns LTTE arrest of Sri Lankan socialists
• TB outbreak in New Zealand school

10 September 1998

• Unemployment set to soar in Australia
  A tacit agreement to deny reality
• Australian teachers union leader demands LTTE release Sri Lankan socialists
• Clinton sends top aide to participate in Northwest talks
• Deaths in Australian mines--what produced the killing fields?
  Reply to a letter from the Ulan Miners Support Group
• More comments on the Starr investigation
• More letters on Saving Private Ryan
• Tory drive to cut teacher jobs and school budgets
  Strikes and lockouts in 7 Ontario school districts
• The "Million Youth March"
  Racist demagogy and police-state repression
• "Modern" German Social Democrats
  Wolfgang Clement--Prime Minister of North-Rhine Westphalia
• An election campaign in the shadow of crisis

11 September 1998

• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  A banal celebration of ruthlessness
• Starr report sets stage for impeachment
  End game in the Clinton crisis
• Letters on the Indonesian crisis
• On the role of imperialism in Africa
• Settlement reported near in Air Canada strike
• Sydney's water crisis--a systemic failure
• Unprecedented violence used against Korean workers
• Was the US missile attack on Sudan justified?

12 September 1998

• "The Al-Shifa factory was not making chemical weapons" - Interview with technical manager of bombed pharmaceutical factory in Sudan
• A political tinderbox in Malaysia
• A revealing election dispute in Australia
• Highest unemployment in Germany during an election since 1933
• How the social democrats and the Greens have contributed to Germany's social misery
• Northern Ireland's "peace" built on state repression and paramilitary violence
• Pilots union submits to company, presidential pressure
  Northwest agreement abandons wage increases
• Police raids and surveillance cameras in Australian schools
• Some interesting films on US television, September 12-18
• Workers struggles around the world 12 September 1998

13 September 1998

• The political meaning of the Starr report
  Spearhead of a right-wing coup

15 September 1998

• A query from an Australian reader about the WSWS
• A question on socialism and communism
• Amnesty International issues urgent appeal on behalf of Sri Lankan socialists
• Chagall's response to war and revolution
• Floods threaten 20 million lives in Bangladesh
• German unions and the extreme right wing
  Poll shows political affinity
• Australian election debate:
  Howard and Beazley share common agenda
• Japan enters deepest post-war recession
• Mass arrests of legal immigrants in El Paso, Texas
• Unions advocate closer collaboration with business as Britain heads into recession

16 September 1998

• A letter and reply on the Kronstadt rebellion
• "Mad cow disease" could have spread to Britain's sheep
• An interview with dissident US miner Richard Cicci
  "The UMWA International is trying to send a message to all miners: if you disagree with the leadership you will be attacked and driven out of the union"
• British Trades Union Congress delegates condemn LTTE repression
  International demands mount for release of Tamil socialists
• Economic crisis worsens in New Zealand
• As unemployment skyrockets
  Filipino president declares himself 'pro-business'
• Financial scandal threatens to engulf French presidency
• Marxism and the law
• Setback for Social Democratic Party in Bavarian elections
• Text of "Urgent Action Appeal" by Amnesty International

17 September 1998

• Clinton grand jury videotape to be made public
  New "dirty tricks" in wake of Starr report
• Correspondence on globalisation and the contradictions of capitalism
• IMF, Indonesia abolish food subsidies
• More signs of recession in US economy
• Starr report increasingly discredited
• Unions derail Ontario teachers' struggle
• What is behind Labour's expulsion of Scottish MP Tommy Graham?
• Why have hospitals become dangerous places?

18 September 1998

• Vadim Rogovin: 1937-1998
  Russian Marxist Historian Dies in Moscow
• Vadim Rogovin: 1937-1998
  Russian Marxist Historian Dies in Moscow
• 'User pays' in Australian schools
• Australian Labor Party turns full circle on East Timor
• Blair tells workers that Labour is unable to stop UK job losses
• Global economic turmoil
  Cold water treatment for Clinton plan
• Devaluations, soaring interest rates
  Latin America's crisis spells social upheavals
• German election campaign
  Socialist Equality Party on the TV program "The Outsiders"
• Workers struggles around the world: 19 September 1998

19 September 1998

• Appeals for the release of the five SEP members in LTTE custody
  A selection from Sri Lanka
• A.K. Voronsky's "Art as the Cognition of Life"
  Art as the discovery of truths, large and small
• Growing nervousness over economic crisis
• How not to fight the right-wing coup in Washington
  The case of Salon magazine
• Some interesting films on US television, September 19-25
• The right-wing agenda after Clinton
  A look at the measures which might follow impeachment
• TUC congress in Britain
  Unions put seal on pro-business agenda
• Why all are silent on the waterfront deal
• Working class organizations, artists and intellectuals demand LTTE release Sri Lankan socialists

22 September 1998

• Anwar's arrest intensifies Malaysia's political instability
• The collapse of a myth
  BHP share crash hits steelworkers
• Clinton grand jury testimony broadcast by networks
• Ford Argentina adds to job cuts sweeping global auto industry
• US-Japan tensions intensify
  Obuchi raises spectre of "war economy"
• Socialism and the environment
• The "programs of prompt action" of the Social Democrats and the Greens
• The Force of Giacometti--painter, sculptor
• US officials question official rationale for Sudan missile attack

23 September 1998

• Public Housing, directed, edited and produced by Frederick Wiseman
  A look at Chicago's poor: "Drama in ordinary experiences"
• Colombo press conference called to press for release of all SEP members - Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party cites reports that LTTE has released three Tamil socialists
• Commentary on the Northern Ireland Agreement - Using and abusing emergency power legislation with the blessing of Sinn Fin/IRA
• New tests refute US claims
  No nerve gas on Iraqi missiles
• Patriotism and the Australian tax package
• Protest turns back attempt to demolish Detroit art project
• Statement of SEP (Sri Lanka) General Secretary Wije Dias on status of Tamil socialists held by the LTTE
• Two reports highlight the growth of global poverty and ill-health

24 September 1998

• A reactionary consensus on 'work-for-the-dole'
• The crisis in the Balkans intensifies
  Bloody disturbances in Albania
• David Walsh at the Toronto International Film Festival
• A comment on international entertainers' appeal
  Does opposition to Starr mean support for Clinton?
• Human Rights Watch demands release of Tamil socialists held by the LTTE
• Mandela government sends invasion force to Lesotho
• New York City events to launch Art as the Cognition of Life by A.K. Voronsky
  New Mehring Books title to be featured at book signings, book fair
• Economic and social crisis in Mexico
  President Zedillo slashes budget
• US Senate kills bill to raise minimum wage
• Basque separatist ETA offers unconditional cease-fire

25 September 1998

• Clinton crisis exposes Blair's "Third Way"
• Copper smelter case proves government cover-up
  Why the recommendations of the Workers Inquiry must be implemented
• Crisis meeting on Wall Street
  Emergency bailout for bond market speculator
• Fourth Tamil socialist reportedly released by LTTE
• On the social crisis in Japan
• School students strike against New Zealand funding scheme
• Striking images, but a misleading interpretation
• Tamil masses in the north of Sri Lanka protest cuts in food rations

26 September 1998

• California court supports cover-up of prison brutality
• Four thousand jobs cut in Britain
• German elections
  Interview with Socialist Equality Party candidates
• Millions languish in poverty, US report shows
• New support in Britain for campaign against LTTE's persecution of Tamil socialists
• Ontario Tories to legislate end to teacher strikes
• Some interesting films on US television, September 26-October 2
• Swedish Social Democrats battered in election
• Two months since Philadelphia strike
  Transit workers still without contract
• Unemployment growing by millions says ILO report

29 September 1998

• "By thinking in images the artist cognizes the world in order to change it"
  Remarks by Frederick Choate, translator of Art as the Cognition of Life, at New York City book signing
• The German elections
  A change of power in Bonn
• Biggest ever Japanese bankruptcy
• Blair government tells poor to fend for themselves
• David Walsh reviews the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival
  (First in a series of articles)
• Dissatisfaction dominates Australian election
• Gas blast paralyses Australian state
  Job cuts revealed as possible cause
• New York City events introduce Aleksandr Voronsky's Art as the Cognition of Life
  Book signings and book fair feature new Mehring Books title
• Philippine Airlines collapses
• US Senate bill tightens screws on debtors

30 September 1998

• What the NEC elections reveal
  Damage control at start of Labour Party Conference in Britain
• Layoffs mount as global slump hits US
  Gillette to slash 4,700 jobs
• Labour Government set to ration healthcare
• Letters from readers on the Starr investigation
• New Zealand officially in recession
• Seven days in January--A chronology of Kenneth Starr's coup