Archive: December 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 December 1998
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Victory of international defense campaign strengthens Tamil struggle
The SEP and the fight for the Socialist United States of Sri Lanka and Eelam - ABC cuts benefits of locked-out workers
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Widespread demonstrations greet extradition verdict
Chilean Socialist Party seeks to rescue Pinochet - Ex-Stalinist Jimmy Reid supports Scottish Socialist Party
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Eye-witness account of West Papua massacre - "We saw terrible slum-like conditions and a very strong army presence"
Part 2 - From a striking teacher in New Jersey
- Jersey City teachers end strike after firing threat
- Sri Lanka: Protests continue against cuts in food supplies to Tamil war refugees
- The tug-of-war over Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Ocalan
- Workers Struggles Around the World: The Americas
2 December 1998
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"There is no process of peace and reconciliation in Chile"
Chilean exiles in Britain speak to the WSWS - A legal farce: Malaysian judge orders Anwar's lawyer jailed
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At the Rover car company
British unions accept 2,500 job losses and flexible contracts - Millions in Bangladesh face slow poisoning from arsenic-contaminated water
- On copyright
- The war poet Wilfred Owen 80 years on
- US and IMF rescue banks in Brazil
- Vadim Rogovin and the significance of his historical research
3 December 1998
- Boeing announcement brings US job cuts to 500,000 in 1998 jobs
- Asian economic slump deepens
- A letter from South Africa
- Elizabeth and a weakened historical sense
- Europe, Russia and Africa
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How should the terminally ill be treated?
The issues raised by Dr. Kevorkian - India: BJP routed in state elections
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North East Scotland by-election to European parliament
Labour Party defeat could accelerate drive for Scottish independence
4 December 1998
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The US Labor Party holds its convention
A political fraud in Pittsburgh - An exchange on the NBA lockout
- Britain's Conservative Party split over House of Lords reform
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The Sydney Opera House:
How government policy imperiled an architectural masterpiece - Jury rejects charges by independent counsel against former US Agriculture Secretary
- Scientists isolate elusive embryonic stem cells
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Quebec elections reveal popular disaffection with major parties
Separatist PQ returned to power -
United States violates international human rights standards
Part 6 in a series of articles on Amnesty International's report on human rights abuses
5 December 1998
- Statistics show gathering world recession
- Over 10,000 job losses announced in one week
- A letter on Malaysian developments
- Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Public meeting in Sheffield, England
Lively discussion on the lessons of Pinochet's coup - PNG unions scuttle national strike
- Some interesting films on US television, December 5-11
- The significance of Pinochet's arrest and the lessons of the 1973 coup
- Utility shutoff leads to child's death in Detroit house fire
8 December 1998
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A letter from a reader in Pakistan
"Pinochet the 'All-American' hero" -
Capitalism in space
Corporate claim on an asteroid - Outcry over Philippines orphanage fire
- Parent union takes control of New York's DC 37
- Report finds UK health inequalities have widened significantly
- Social explosion looms in Bangladesh
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The US impeachment drive
Starr refuses to answer questions from Judiciary Committee Democrats -
Woody Allen strikes a nerve--good for him!
Celebrity, written and directed by Woody Allen--reviewed by David Walsh - Workers struggles: North America
9 December 1998
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Indonesia:
A growing loss of confidence in the Habibie regime -
Funds for elderly will flow to stock market
Clinton to back Social Security privatization - Israeli student strike ends in failure
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In lead-up to Washington visit
Pakistan prime minister imposes military crackdown - Pentagon report calls Asia a "core security concern"
- Telephone call centres expand worldwide
- University of California teaching assistants return to work
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As negotiations for new Northern Ireland Assembly break down
Violence erupts again in Drumcree
10 December 1998
- Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- In appreciation of David Walsh's review of The Siege
- LTTE calls for new talks with Sri Lankan regime
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Australia:
New attacks on the democratic rights of refugees - On Pol Pot and The Killing Fields
- The Texas killing machine targets Canadian Stanley Faulder
- Washington's silence on Pinochet
11 December 1998
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A review by David Walsh
Psycho, Vertigo and Gus Van Sant's passive resistance
Psycho, directed by Gus Van Sant, screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on the novel by Robert Bloch - An exchange on Woody Allen's Celebrity
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Australia:
Concerns raised by deaths of volunteer firefighters - New UK legislation means the poor will pay more for water
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Interview with an Australian specialist
Tuberculosis: a deadly epidemic out of control -
US job cuts to hit 625,000 by year's end
Manufacturing sector hardest hit
12 December 1998
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Political coup gathers strength
Clinton’s groveling emboldens right-wing push for impeachment - Decision on Pinochet heightens political crisis
- Hypocrisy surrounds international cricket scandal
- Judiciary Committee Republican Bob Barr spoke at white supremacist convention
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Report on New York State government funding
Money for prisons, not for schools - Some interesting films on US television, December 12-18
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New threat of air strikes
US moves B-52s towards Iraq - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the South Pacific
15 December 1998
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Deflation drives job-cutting
Exxon-Mobil merger to form world's largest company - From a reader in India
- In memory of Vadim Z. Rogovin
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Australia:
Key ACTU meeting reveals unions in decline - On the Starr investigation
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 December 1998
- A personal tribute to film director Alan Pakula by writer John Nichols
- New York City transit authority to employ welfare recipients
- Sri Lankan regime to try LTTE leaders for Central Bank bomb attack
- Welfare jobs cut in Australia
- Workers Revolutionary Party member resigns and declares his support for the International Committee of the Fourth International
17 December 1998
- A special holiday offer from Mehring Books
- Europe, Russia and Africa
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Britain
Immigration and Asylum Bill turns refugees into pariahs -
Clinton's attack on Iraq
Military aggression and political diversion -
India
Protest strikes target BJP government's economic policies - Striking bus driver killed in Blackburn, England
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Hugo Chavez's election
Venezuelan and foreign capital size up former coup leader
18 December 1998
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Working conditions inside telephone call centres
"They will monitor anything we do on that phone" - Australian miners union calls strike against coal price cuts
- British media incites hatred against Eastern European refugees
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UNSCOM aided Pentagon targeting
Controversy mounts over role of UN inspectors in Iraq -
Labour's reform of the House of Lords
A travesty of democracy -
Law Lords overturn earlier decision refusing Pinochet "sovereign immunity"
Fresh appeal in January could set the dictator free - Peter Symonds replies to two letters on the trial of Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia
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Citigroup, RJR Nabisco announce job cuts
Slumping sales, profits behind US layoffs - The Teamsters election and its significance for the working class
19 December 1998
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The bombing of Iraq
A shameful chapter in American history - An exchange on gambling and socialism
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US-British attack on Iraq
Blair is Clinton's sole international ally once again -
As anti-government protests continue
Indonesian regime resorts to brutal police measures - San Francisco's homeless dying at record rate
- Some interesting films on US television, December 19-25
- Workers Struggles Around the World: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 December 1998
- Soros warns of "market fundamentalism"
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Puerto Rico's Referendum
A vote of social protest - ABC-TV gives ultimatum to locked-out workers
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The impeachment of President Clinton
Is America drifting towards civil war? -
Britain
Labour's backdoor privatisation of essential public services -
Canada
Meatpackers strike against demand for $6 per hour wage cuts - On the bombing of Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 December 1998
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The downsizing of America
GM plant closing in Saginaw, Michigan - Job cuts decimate New Zealand forestry industry
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French fascists fall out
Le Pen's Front National splits - US media downplays links between congressional Republicans and fascists - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott praised white supremacist group
24 December 1998
- Agents provocateur: the activities of Richard Butler and UNSCOM
- Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Inquiry into police abuse of power relaunched
Canadian Prime Minister's role ruled off limits -
Fire related deaths in the Motor City approach 70 for 1998
Detroit firefighters lack equipment and manpower - Labour government rocked by high-level resignations
- Notes from the Amsterdam documentary film festival
- The WSWS will not post articles December 25-28. Postings will resume Tuesday, December 29.
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Eyewitness to air assault denounces media cover-up
US and British bombs killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians - Workers Struggles: Europe, Russia and Africa
26 December 1998
29 December 1998
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Interview with David King at the opening of his exhibition The Commissar Vanishes
"Stalin and his regime destroyed the revolution." - 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror By Vadim Z. Rogovin – Table of Contents
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An introduction to a groundbreaking new book and its author
1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror
By Vadim Rogovin - 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror By Vadim Z. Rogovin – Introduction
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1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror By Vadim Z. Rogovin
Chapter 1: Preparations for the First Show Trial -
Exposing Stalin’s “retouching”
The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of photographs and art in Stalin's Russia, an exhibition based on documents from the Collection of David King--Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30 - Leon Trotsky and the Fate of Marxism in the USSR
- Social inequality, bureaucracy and the betrayal of socialism in the Soviet Union
- Stalin’s Great Terror: Origins and Consequences
- Marxist standpoint on "Science and Society" debated at British university
- Reply to a supporter of the US bombing of Iraq
- Science and Society, a Socialist Perspective
- Television technicians in US reject ABC ultimatum
- The mask falls: Germany's Red-Green government and the bombing of Iraq
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Protesters in Berlin denounce US-British aggression
Voices against the war - Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 December 1998
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"International campaign secured our release"
Sri Lankan socialists detained by the LTTE speak out - After the bombing of Iraq, danger grows of a US ground assault
- David Walsh's list of the best films of 1998
- New Zealand coalition government in disarray
- New revelations of corruption in New York City unions
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A highly significant discovery
Oldest human-like fossil uncovered in South Africa - Plans for Greater London Authority ignore growing social inequality
- Why did the Scottish National Party oppose the bombing of Iraq?
31 December 1998
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Detroit fire death toll at 79
Blaze kills six children in Detroit working class neighborhood - Detroit firefighter speaks out: "All these kids do not have to die"
- House fires during the holidays kill scores of people acrosss the US
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The Jefferson-Hemings controversy
In defense of history -
Private health insurance rebate:
A further erosion of Australian public health care - Canada's social democrats to move further to the right
- Canadian Auto Workers union to stump for Liberals in next Ontario election
- On films and form: a letter from a reader
- Some interesting films on US television, January 2-8
- The International Space Station: a project with enormous scientific potential
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
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