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Archive: October 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.

1 October 1998

• The enduring significance of the work of Max Ernst
  Max Ernst, an exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Centre Paris, and a selection of his writings compiled in Max Ernst: Beyond Painting, Wittenborn, Schultz, 1948.
• Former Esso plant worker speaks out
  "It was only a matter of time before this happened"
• Australian gas disaster raises many questions
• Caribbean's poor hardest hit by Hurricane Georges
• Ontario legislature orders teachers back to work
• South Korean bank unions call off indefinite strike
• Pentagon brass at Senate hearing
  US military demands spending increase

2 October 1998

• British employers have little to lose from EU's "Working Time Directive"
• David Walsh reviews the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival: Part 2
• Former Los Angeles mayor dies
• Over 1,500 casualties in three days of Sri Lanka war
• US Department of Health and Human Services report
  The prosperous live longer
• US steelworkers strike Kaiser Aluminum
• Voter turnout in US primaries hits record lows

3 October 1998

• Deepening political crisis in Malaysia
  Behind the sacking and arrest of Anwar Ibrahim
• Blair tells British Labour Party conference, "The honeymoon is over"
• California students protest funding of prisons instead of universities
• Ecuadorian workers and police clash in national strike
• More questions than answers on hedge fund collapse
• Some interesting films on US television, October 3-9
• Ten-year-old charged with manslaughter in Australia
• Workers struggles around the world -- 3 October 1998

6 October 1998

• International tributes for Russian Marxist historian
  Vadim Rogovin buried in Moscow
• The death of Semira Adamu and deportation policy in Europe
• Thousands join New Zealand anti-poverty march
• Two hundred thousand commemorate 1968 Mexico City massacre
• Narrow result in Australian election
  Vote for two traditional parties falls to new low

7 October 1998

• An interview with Tsai Ming-liang, director of The Hole
• Portrait of a political operator
  Australian tour by Indonesian opposition leader Amien Rais
• FBI informer, implicated in Klan killings, dead at 64
• Global reorganization threatens GM workers' jobs
• Political crisis deepens in Spain following ETA cease-fire
• The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival: Part 3
• Red Cross and Red Crescent issue report
  Warnings of famine and starvation in the former Soviet Union

8 October 1998

• Amnesty International reports widespread human rights violations in the US
• Clampdown on child pornography used as pretext for state control of the Internet
• Conflicts dominate Washington meeting: World leaders at International Monetary Fund conference acknowledge global economic crisis
• Impeachment then and now
• Russian marchers demand Yeltsin's resignation
• Scottish National Party's reformist mask begins to slip
• UN oil for food coordinator denounces Iraq sanctions
• US, NATO threaten new bombing campaign against Serbia

9 October 1998

• A growing concentration of wealth
• A political struggle in the guise of a sex scandal--Malaysia and the US
• City of New York agrees to $3 million settlement in police brutality case
• On the Starr investigation
• On the gas breakdown in Australia
• Sackings and wage cuts in Hong Kong
• The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival: Part 4
• Violent attacks on striking Kenyan teachers

10 October 1998

• Brazilian president prepares to implement IMF austerity package
• Britain's Conservatives on verge of split
• Deep-seated fears send US dollar tumbling
• Healthcare professionals warn of "terrible consequences" as US uninsured population grows
• Mandela government sends more troops to Lesotho
• Thousands rally at Indonesian PDI congress
  Megawati pledges an "open market"
• Some interesting films on US television: October 10-16
• The Democrats: fighting impeachment on their knees
• UMWA dissidents among 450 workers laid off at Pennsylvania mine
• Workers struggles around the world

13 October 1998

• Blair hails Chinese Stalinists as proponents of the "Third Way"
• Germany after the elections
  A balance sheet and perspectives
• Italian government in turmoil after resignation of Prodi
• Rationalisations in high-tech
  More job losses in Scotland's Silicon Glen
• New revelations demonstrate role of right-wing lawyers, judges in anti-Clinton coup
• Documents shed light on fatal explosion
  Safety inspections slashed at Australian gas plant
• The anti-gay lynching in Wyoming: who is responsible?

14 October 1998

• Britain's auditors buy the legislation they want
• The Tin Drum under attack in Oklahoma City
  Democratic rights and the religious right
• Illiteracy on the rise in America
• More meatworks close in New Zealand
• Rifts appear in Australian Labor Party
• Six Mexican immigrants killed by train in Texas
• Wall Street begins slashing jobs

15 October 1998

• Australia's richest man pays no tax
• BBC Panorama's "Failing at Four": a valuable contribution to the discussion over the future of education
• Doubts grow over Japanese bank bailout
• Strike by secondary school students in France
• The issues in the Paris transport strikes

16 October 1998

• Indonesian generals and businessmen join Megawati's camp
• Questions on globalization and Aboriginal rights
• Report documents growth of social antagonisms in America
• US Supreme Court lets anti-gay measure stand
• Why is the New York Times supporting Kenneth Starr?
• William Finnegan's Cold New World: Grim conditions facing young people in 1990s America

17 October 1998

• A painter and his hell
  Love is the Devil--study for a portrait of Francis Bacon: a film by John Maybury
• Clinton, Republicans approve deal
  Budget agreement maintains right-wing consensus
• Mass strikes in Colombia hit austerity demands
• On-the-spot report:
  Mega fever in Bali
• Montana Republican tells candidates' forum: "Clinton should be shot"
• Job cuts in third quarter highest in five years
  New wave of layoffs in US
• Some interesting films on US television: October 17-October 23
• The development of the radical right-wing parties in Germany
• US cited for widespread human rights abuses
  First in a series of articles on Amnesty International report
• Workers struggles around the world: 17 October 1998

20 October 1998

• Touch of Evil: that ticking noise in our heads
• BSE detected in beef passed for human consumption
• British Museum exhibit provokes controversy over Celtic history
• Murderous conditions in Sri Lankan free trade zones
• New Zealand court approves fire service job cuts
• Oxfam report details human cost of IMF programs
• Readers comment on WSWS coverage of Starr investigation
• The Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement on Kosovo

21 October 1998

• Who is responsible for the oil explosion in Nigeria?
• After Matthew Shepard's killing: which way forward to defend democratic rights?
• Australian waterfront workers object to new conditions
• US played key role in 1973 Chilean coup
  Can Henry Kissinger be extradited?
• Canadian students protest university fee hikes and budget cuts
• Damning documents in Sydney water contamination scandal
• Pentagon issues warning over anti-Clinton statements by military personnel
• Pinochet arrest sparks diplomatic crisis
• Privatisation of education in Britain stepped up
  Surrey Council puts state school out to private tender
• German parliament votes for military operations in Kosovo
  The Greens' fall from grace

22 October 1998

• Canada: Chretien government resists calls for increased social spending
• Crisis mounts over Pinochet arrest
• Death squad inquiry continues to shake Spanish social democrats
• Father of two was shot 12 times
  Grand jury exonerates Houston cops in murder of Mexican immigrant
• New clues about the origin of galaxies
  Hubble telescope captures glimpse of early universe
• Kenyan teachers strike betrayed
• New book documents US complicity in drug running
  Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, by Gary Webb, Seven Stories Press (New York: 1998) $24.95
• The Wall Street Journal defends Pinochet
• Video reveals prison bashing in Australia

23 October 1998

• Signs of economic slowdown mount in US
• Former British PM Thatcher calls for Pinochet's release
• Homelessness and hunger in Ontario
• Mass demonstrations by French high school students
• National Health Service cuts lead to hundreds of baby deaths in Britain
• Reader comments on anti-gay lynching in Wyoming
• Readers comment about article on the Starr investigation and the New York Times
• The Pinochet coup and the death of Charles Horman
• US judge rules The Tin Drum is not child pornography

24 October 1998

• Letter to the New York Times from David North
  A reply to article on "Rethinking McCarthyism"
• Friends in high places
  Britain's Labour government reveals its compassion for Pinochet
• Colombian union leader assassinated as national strike intensifies
• Government crisis in Spain over Pinochet arrest
• Giuliani and Rikers Island
  New York prison administers medicine for profit
• Republican candidate arrested for murdering opponent
• Scottish Socialist Party fosters nationalist divisions
• Some interesting films on US television, October 24-30
• Sri Lanka: Tamils protest against delay in excavating mass graves in Jaffna
• Political lessons of the Chilean coup
  Statement issued by the Fourth International on September 18, 1973
• The critical reception in Germany of Vadim Rogovin's 1937
• US group sues over new attempt at Internet censorship
• Workers struggles around the world -- 24 October 1998

27 October 1998

• A collection of rarely displayed images
• Australian government seeks new cover-up on Timor deaths
• BMW/Rover to axe thousands of auto jobs at Longbridge, England
• Banks, not hedge funds, at centre of world financial crisis
• Death toll from Nigerian pipline explosion may reach 1,000
• High Court bid to free Pinochet begins
• Police brutality in America
  Part 2 in a series of articles on Amnesty International's report of human rights abuses in the US
• The Starr-Tripp connection: Evidence mounts that independent counsel orchestrated frame-up of Clinton
• The murder of Dr. Slepian

28 October 1998

• British authorities use new technology to increase state surveillance
• Deteriorating health care in New Zealand
• Further criminalization of the poor in the US - Working class couple charged for the accidental deaths of their children
• Germany's red-green coalition: Vague promises and calls for sacrifice from all
• In the aftermath of the federal elections
  Mounting political instability in Australia
• Pinochet's arrest provokes political turmoil in Chile
• Sharp clashes between police and demonstrators in Malaysia

29 October 1998

• Australia:
  A widening gulf in jobs and income
• Huge military mobilisation to block Indonesian protests
• UK High Court rules in favour of Pinochet
• On the eve of the US midterm elections
  What happened to the impeachment drive?
• Accord between Israel and PLO papers over social contradictions
  What road forward for Arab and Jewish workers in the Middle East?
• To please Suharto, Canadian government suppressed protests
  What's behind the APEC furor?

30 October 1998

• Former CP leader D'Alema becomes prime minister of Italy
• General strikes in Bangladesh demand government's resignation
• Student protests call for Indonesian president to resign
• UAW agrees to axing of Dayton brake plant jobs
• US election notes
• Vail, Colorado arson attack: The reactionary implications of "eco-terrorism"

31 October 1998

• International school examines the century’s central problems of history, politics and culture 
• A new UN report
  AIDS devastation in Africa
• More signs of US recession
  Ford announces temporary plant closures
• Owners cancel first month of NBA basketball
• Sixty-two dead in Sweden's worst fire in modern times
• Some interesting films on US television, October 31-November 6
• Stalinist parties in India pledge to support Congress power bid
• Operation Condor
  US holds key evidence against Pinochet
• Workers struggles around the world