Archive: March 1999
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 December 1969
2 March 1999
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A founder of American Trotskyism
Albert Glotzer dead at 90 - Internet crackdown in China
- New Zealand prime minister storms out of parliament over tourism scandal
- One in five young Britons suffer mental health problems
- The Apple opens in the US
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Justice for forced laborers?
The Deutsche Bank, Auschwitz and German business's compensation fund - The contradictions of surging US growth
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 March 1999
- 1,700 at New York rally to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Canada's Official Opposition to found new right-wing party
- Canadian "unite the right" conference adopts revealing resolutions
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France's HIV-infected blood trial set to conclude this week
Former prime minister unlikely to be found guilty - Hackers shut down East Timor Internet addresses
- Job losses mount in Australia as company profits rise
- Singapore opposition leader jailed
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A socially-progressive alternative to the onslaught on jobs and democratic rights in Australia
Socialist Equality Party New South Wales Election Statement -
Supreme Court issues ruling on "Los Angeles Eight"
Sweeping attack on the democratic rights of immigrants - The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 1
4 March 1999
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Observations of Ghana
A cruel juxtaposition of wealth and poverty -
Falling investment, rising debt
Australian economy hits troubled waters -
As US bombing raids continue
Spy revelations vindicate Iraqi charges - Sydney's Opera House--Not a World Heritage Item?
- The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 2--the latest from Tavernier and a film from Turkey
- The Broaddrick affair: the media renews the war against the White House
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The Ford Rouge disaster
US auto industry profits rise along with injuries and deaths in factories - Up to 50,000 bank workers face retrenchment in Indonesia
- Victim of Ford Rouge explosion says power plant was "running on bubble gum and bobby pins"
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The Pope and Pinochet
Why the Vatican defends mass murder - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
5 March 1999
- Clinton administration argues for right to expel asylum-seekers
- Nigerian election fraud leaves elite in control
- On the origins of HIV
- Privacy rights threatened by Intel's new computer chip
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Europe:
Reform of Common Agricultural Policy generates bitter conflicts -
The singer and the song explored
The Voice of the People: A 20 CD collection of folk song by Topic Records -
A conspiracy against the East Timorese
UN intervention into East Timor being prepared - US imposes tariff sanctions on European luxury goods
6 March 1999
- Anwar's wife to challenge Malaysian prime minister at next elections
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Republican candidate advances fascistic agenda
Buchanan announces presidential campaign for 2000 - Despite the promise of peace and economic prosperity, Northern Ireland has become a barren land
- Korean union federation quits government economic committee
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Meaning well is still the opposite of art
Affliction, directed by Paul Schrader - Monica Lewinsky describes intimidation and threats by Kenneth Starr
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With television cameras rolling
Police raid home of British Columbia premier - Some interesting films on US television, March 6-12
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Sri Lankan plantation workers expose frame-up by estate management
Socialist Equality Party launch campaign in their defence - US pilot who killed twenty on ski gondola acquitted
- Unanswered questions over the police bashing of Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
9 March 1999
- An exchange of letters on Stalinism, Trotskyism and the Communist Party of Canada
- Bangladesh: With protests intensifying, investors decry rivalry among political elite
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Behind Gough Whitlam's outburst
Leaked documents reveal Australian Labor leader's East Timor role - Much more than bananas at stake in US-Europe trade conflict
- The rise and decline of Pauline Hanson's One Nation
- Widening gulf between rich and poor in New Zealand
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 March 1999
- China spy scare: a new stage in the political warfare in Washington
- Cost of Sri Lankan racist war equals 18 months of the country's GDP
- Letters on the acquittal of US marine pilot
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Inquiry into racist murder of Stephen Lawrence
Macpherson report leaves major questions unanswered -
Natural life and social life
David Walsh reviews The Adopted Son (Beshkempir), directed by Aktan Abdykalykov - Police falsified evidence about 1989 Hillsborough football disaster
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Protests hit Pennsylvania welfare cuts
Thousands face benefits cutoff as time limit expires - Supreme Court delays Clinton plans to deport thousands of legal immigrants
- Tamil Nadu journalist shocked by poverty in Glasgow
- The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 3--documentary films from Germany, Switzerland and Austria
11 March 1999
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Toronto strikers speak out
"What's really at issue is the future of public education" - Auto workers write to WSWS about fatal explosion at Ford plant
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Australia:
Bipartisan push to further cut youth wages -
More British arms to Africa
Blair government intervenes in Republic of Congo - Despite growing protests, US states execute two more men
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The Ford Rouge explosion
Family of injured worker gets restraining order to prevent Ford from destroying evidence - Iris DeMent song provokes intense debate
- Papua New Guinea in legal battle with mercenary outfit
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Toronto school support staff workers strike
But unions oppose challenge to Bill 160 -
The Berlin Film Festival - Part 4
Two German films about fascism - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
12 March 1999
- A remarkable anthology of world poetry
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Legacy of oppression
Clinton's crocodile tears for Central America -
French HIV-tainted blood trial
Court acquits former prime minister - General strike in Ecuador opposes IMF austerity measures
- Graduate students strike at the University of Michigan
- Iris DeMent song provokes intense debate
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Australia:
New disciplinary measures against NSW teachers - The politics of the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party): a balance sheet
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Inequality and police brutality in New York City
The social underpinnings of the murder of Amadou Diallo
13 March 1999
- Aftermath of the US impeachment drive: Starr presses persecution of Susan McDougal
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Australian troops placed on alert for intervention in neighbouring countries
East Timor, Indonesia, PNG suggested as possible targets -
State elections in Austria
Landslide victory for right-wing extremists - On WSWS coverage of US politics
- Some interesting films on US television, March 13-19
- Texas sets date for execution of Canadian Stanley Faulder
- The Battle for Chile: a heartfelt testament to Pinochet's victims
- US layoffs up 41 percent since February 1998
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 March 1999
- Australian job figures reveal long-term decline
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Behind the corruption scandals
Big business demands a corporate Olympics -
Dancemaker: A Tribute to Paul Taylor
A documentary directed and produced by Matthew Diamond - Japanese contraction reveals global tendencies
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Amid further restructuring and layoffs
South Korean unions threaten national strikes - Tentative settlement in Toronto public school strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 March 1999
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Geraldine Rawson's hearing adjourned until May
An important test case for teachers' rights -
Background to the recent Nigerian elections
General Obasanjo more than just a "friend" of the Americans -
Civil rights lawyer murdered in Northern Ireland
Crime reveals links between police and paramilitaries -
Five million US families without safe and affordable housing
Changes in housing law will impact the poor and elderly -
Nationwide tour opposes Iraq sanctions
Former UN relief coordinator speaks in Detroit -
Mass resignation by European Commission
Path cleared for reform of European Union - The resignation of German Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine--the end of Bad Godesberg
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Under conditions of social breakdown
UN talks propose autonomy ballot for East Timor -
New findings present theoretical challenge
Universe expanding faster than expected
18 March 1999
- At least 11 deaths in Amtrak collision in Illinois
- Australia's richest man cleared of breaching media laws
- Ecuador on brink of civil war as government deepens austerity measures
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10-year-old boy charged with manslaughter in Australia
Media sensationalises Sydney hearing - Michigan judge condemns 16 year old to life sentence with no parole
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In run-up to June 2 elections
Political and social tensions mount in South Africa -
Sweden edges towards adopting the euro
New attacks prepared against working class - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
19 March 1999
- Canadian Parliament debates motion to study scrapping national currency
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Malaysia's murky politics
Mahathir crows over Sabah election win - Registration of Political Parties Act used to disbar Socialist Party in British elections
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Sweden continued eugenics policy until 1976
Social Democrats implemented measures to forcibly sterilise 62,000 people -
Hospitals crisis in Tasmania
State Labor government seeks to balance budget at the expense of public health - Tourist murders expose Ugandan success claims
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In second week of Arkansas trial
Witnesses undermine Starr case against Susan McDougal - World Poetry and the English language
20 March 1999
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New South Wales Election Notebook
A law and order bidding war against the youth - Britain: Labour's budget sets stage for further attacks on welfare
- Indonesian bank workers protest closures and job losses
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Australian authorities yet to respond
More protests against exclusion of Tamil socialist -
Political observations from Bandung, Indonesia
By a WSWS reader - Socialist opponent of Stalinism dies in New York
- Some interesting films on US television, March 20-26
- US, NATO threaten bombing in Yugoslavia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 March 1999
- A letter from South Africa
- Dayton, Ohio union officials defend KKK member
- Death penalty opponents speak in Detroit
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Human BSE, nvCJD
Statistics point to increased incidence of brain-wasting disease in Britain -
More than 200 dead and 30,000 homeless
Tensions high on Indonesian island of Ambon -
David Walsh looks at the Oscars
The Academy Awards: Hollywood at its worst - War in Kosovo draws nearer
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- World Bank chief sounds the alarm
24 March 1999
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Account of McCarthy period slanders socialist opponents of Stalinism
Review of Ellen Schrecker's Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America - Clinton at the Gridiron Club: making light of a political coup
- Dayton Accord near collapse: the political crisis in Bosnia
- European Human Rights Commission challenges UK sentencing procedures in the Jamie Bulger case
- In a fresh attack on Kurdish democratic rights, UK watchdog shuts down Med TV station
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New South Wales election
Labor's jobs program--no hope for the unemployed
Comment by Terry Cook, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Newcastle - Lafontaine's resignation: how German business pressured the government to change course
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Canada's new youth crime law
Liberals embrace the right's social agenda - New Zealand firefighters' union gives go-ahead for job cuts and restructuring
- The British working class and the Pinochet affair: what accounts for labour's silence?
25 March 1999
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Questions posed by fires at election office
Australian state election reveals youth opposition to Labor
Comment by Richard Phillips, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Bankstown - British Lords issue ruling on Pinochet appeal--stage set for further litigation in extradition case
- Election slump for Finnish social democrats
- House Republicans block vote to condemn racist group
- Letters from WSWS readers on Elia Kazan and the Oscars
- US-NATO bombs fall on Serbia: the "New World Order" takes shape
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Victorian Labor Party pitches for big business support
New leader installed - Workers struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
26 March 1999
- Angolan civil war escalates
- Another victim of welfare reform: 11-month-old baby dies in Pennsylvania house fire
- Britain's anti-terror squad arrest Abu Hamza al-Masri
- Indian budget lauded by big business
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Right-wing campaign against Clinton White House
McDougal trial exposes Starr-media conspiracy - Whom will the United States bomb next?
27 March 1999
- General strike by Israeli public sector workers
- One in five British adults have serious problems reading and counting
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Political police will hack into computers
Wide new powers for Australian spy agency - Some interesting films on US television, March 27-April 2
- Stanley Kubrick--an appreciation
- US military uses Yugoslavia as testing ground for high-tech weaponry
- War dominates the European Union summit in Berlin
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 March 1999
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An oddly human work
David Walsh reviews Eastwood's True Crime - British Liberal media and ex-radicals declare support for bombing of Kosovo
- Explosion at Michigan fireworks factory kills at least four workers
- Fictitious capital and the rise of the Dow
- Rallies in Australian cities denounce NATO attack
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Volatile result in New South Wales election
Support for old parties plunges - Thousands demonstrate in Germany against NATO military strikes
- Three day strike by New Zealand nurses
- US, NATO prepare public opinion for ground war against Serbia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Worldwide protests against US-NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
31 March 1999
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Testimony before United Nations Human Rights Commission
Amnesty International condemns US for executions and police brutality - Britain's Home Secretary considers freedom for Pinochet
- Canada: Liberals adopt emergency law to end federal workers strike
- Clinton signals a shift to a wider war against Serbia
- Interview with an actor on the Elia Kazan controversy: "I think it was one of the darkest periods in our history"
- Ireland: Report cites Royal Ulster Constabulary hostility to murdered civil rights lawyer
- Michigan fireworks factory cited for repeated safety violations before fatal blast
- NATO attack on Serbia has repercussions for Europe as a whole
- New York welfare policy claims a second infant's life
- Sri Lankan bank workers defy court injunction
- Yugoslav immigrant condemns US bombing
4 September 2008
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