Archive: April 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
7 May 1994
1 April 1999
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US, Japan turn up the pressure on Pyongyang regime
An explosive situation on the Korean peninsula -
Australian trade deficit soars to new record
Treasurer warns of "tight budget" - Face to face with the Spanish Revolution: A rare exhibition of photographs by Robert Capa
- Julie Hiatt Steele to testify for McDougal in Arkansas trial
- Scottish National Party leader criticises NATO bombing of Serbia
- Texas executes inmate on death row since 1974
- Textile workers in India rebel against pay cut
- Why did events in Kosovo take the Clinton Administration by surprise?
- Widespread opposition to death penalty legislation in Michigan
2 April 1999
- "Executed" Kosovar leaders reemerge: Easter miracle, or media fraud?
- Behind and beyond the propaganda: Why is the US bombing Serbia?
- Legal dispute between Hong Kong and Beijing worries investors
- President forced into exile--crisis grips Paraguayan regime
- Ratification of Northern Ireland Agreement delayed once again
- Taste of Cherry to be shown on Australian television
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Red-Green militarism
The German government and the war against Serbia - What were the real issues in the Elia Kazan award controversy?
- Why Leon Trotsky agreed to testify before the Dies commission in 1939
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
3 April 1999
- America's sharemarket: an "extraordinary popular delusion"?
- Asia, the Pacific and Australasia
- Australian students protest against 'voluntary student unionism' legislation
- Bangladesh government spends on investors rather than hospitals and schools
- Clinton interviewed by CBS news--the impeachment cover-up continues
- Some interesting films on US television, April 3-April 9
- The Tamil question and the struggle against privatization--an exchange of letters
- US attitude toward "ethnic cleansing" depends on who's doing it
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Will ground troops be next?
US rains bombs on Yugoslav capital city - World recession impacts Sri Lankan economy
6 April 1999
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As US renews attack on Iraq
Australian government sends frigate to Persian Gulf - Detroit schools takeover approved by Michigan legislature
- Indonesia: Racial killings in Kalimantan fostered by government policy
- Japanese unemployment climbs as "restructuring" begins
- Not a single MRI scanner in Sri Lanka's public health sector
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Diallo murder charges, Louima assault trial
Spotlight on NYC police brutality throws Mayor Giuliani in crisis - The United States and the war in the Balkans: On the road to catastrophe
- Why is Europe bombing Serbia?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 April 1999
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Yabu Bilyana's speech to 1996 election rally:
'The oppression of Aboriginal people is not a race question but a class question' -
As the US maintains economic blockade
A human catastrophe unfolds in North Korea -
Yabu Bilyana, 1944-1999
Aboriginal socialist dies in Brisbane, Australia, aged 54 - Forty percent of children in Britain born into poverty and deprivation
- Michigan court to allow 11-year-old's confession, upholds first-degree murder charge
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Where is the outrage?
NATO bombs Serbian town - Public housing rents in New Zealand drive thousands into poverty
- Readers around the world oppose NATO bombing
- Rosa Luxemburg speaks against capital punishment
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As Israel prepares for elections
Zionist political establishment splinters
8 April 1999
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A chilling portrayal of Niger
"The Face of Debt"--a documentary by Maggie O'Kane - A reader asks about the poetry of Wilfred Owen
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Behind the war in the Balkans:
A reply to a supporter of the US-NATO bombing of Serbia - Letter to the WSWS by P. Harris, a supporter of the US-NATO bombing of Serbia
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Globalization and the crisis of the PRI
Mexico's ruling party fragmenting - Political motives behind the bombing of Serb civilians
- UK teachers union votes for national strike
- United States uses, and abuses, Kosovar refugees
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
9 April 1999
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A mature film about sexual obsession
Review of Lolita, directed by Adrian Lyne - Australian government twists and turns on Kosovar refugees--A case study in duplicity
- British Labour's elder statesman embraces NATO bombing of Serbia
- Canada: Ontario Tories intensify assault on social and public services
- Deal between British government and BMW--Rover car plant gets stay of execution
- Pro-Indonesian militia murder at least 25 East Timorese
- Protests in London against US-NATO bombing
10 April 1999
- Aboriginal bilingual education axed in Australia's Northern Territory
- British Home Secretary considers fresh charges against General Pinochet
- Canada: Saskatchewan nurses defy back-to-work legislation
- Defection from India's ruling coalition threatens BJP-led government
- Kosovo "freedom fighters" financed by organised crime
- Some interesting films on US television, April 10-April 16
- Strike at Canada's largest telephone company
- Tonight programme interviews the Stephen Lawrence murder suspects--the decline of investigative journalism in Britain
- US-NATO jets bomb Serb auto plant
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 April 1999
13 April 1999
- Depleted Uranium in NATO missiles threatens generations to come
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A belated comment on Shakespeare in Love
Everything we could have asked for...unfortunately
Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard -
Russia and the Balkan war
NATO's bombing of Belgrade changes the political balance of forces in Moscow - New electricity privatisation in New Zealand will lead to higher prices
- Niger military assassinates president
- Saskatchewan nurses continue to defy legal strikebreaking
- The NATO bombing of Serbian auto plant
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12 months on
What was the "victory" on the Australian waterfront? - What will be left of Yugoslavia after the bombing?
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
Guatemalans protest repression of unions - Workers at Serb car plant bombed by NATO make appeal to world public
14 April 1999
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Message of condolence from David North
'He based his life on the ideals of justice, equality and human solidarity' -
Yabu Bilyana 1944-1999
Aboriginal socialist buried in Brisbane - Massive police presence at Sydney anti-NATO rally
- McDougal acquittal deals a major blow to Starr investigation
- People's Alliance regime in Sri Lanka seeks re-introduction of the death penalty
- Pro-Indonesian militia step up violence on East Timor
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How the Balkan war was prepared
Rambouillet Accord foresaw the occupation of all Yugoslavia -
Funeral oration by Nick Beams
Tribute to Yabu Bilyana
15 April 1999
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Stage set for deepening political crisis
Anwar Ibrahim jailed for six years in Malaysia - Britain's rich get even richer: 47,300 millionaires ... and climbing
- Jack Maginnis--lifelong socialist in Liverpool
- Kvaerner shipbuilders to shed thousands of jobs in Europe
- More letters to WSWS oppose NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
- The US and ethnic cleansing—the case of Croatia
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As Washington escalates air war
US-NATO jets bomb Kosovan civilians - What would be the consequences of a US declaration of war on Yugoslavia?
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
16 April 1999
- Algerian elections: FLN provides political cover for military regime
- Britain's Home Secretary allows extradition case against Pinochet to proceed
- Fate of Kosovars highlights Europe's attitude to refugees
- Sunday referendum in Italy to decide on voting system
- The 1999 Pulitzers--prizes for Ken Starr's allies
- The Kosovo refugee crisis and the Holocaust: How the German government defends its military policy
- UK Internet libel case could set dangerous precedent
- What does the bombing of Kosovar refugees say about NATO's "humanitarian" war?
17 April 1999
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Committal hearing concludes in Sydney
"Criminally wrong" or "naughty"?--little boy could face trial for manslaughter - Australian High Court upholds denial of appeal rights to refugees
- Business pressure prompts Clinton to restart US-China trade talks
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A reply to a liberal supporter of the US-NATO attack on Yugoslavia
Cause and effect in the Balkan War - Further evidence that chemical crop sprays cause adverse health effects
- IMF “shock therapy” and the recolonisation of the Balkans
- Judge levies $45.5 million fine against American Airlines pilots' union
- Korea: the next Kosovo?
- Letter to the WSWS from MP, a reader
- Saskatchewan: nurses union offers to end outlawed strike
- Some interesting films on US television, April 17-April 23
- Turkish elections take place amid anti-Kurdish repression
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workfare to start in New York City transit
19 April 1999
20 April 1999
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Behind the attacks on veteran journalist John Simpson
British government criticises BBC for its war coverage -
SPD--a party of war
German Social Democrats' special party congress supports bombing of Yugoslavia - Sharp decline in number of working class students in New Zealand
- The material interests behind US foreign policy
- Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right: A Cartographer's View of the Yugoslav War
- US-NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: critical reports circulate on the Internet
- Western calls for intervention mount after Timor killings
- Yugoslavia, Caspian oil and US foreign policy
21 April 1999
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15 dead in Colorado school shooting
A nation at war ... with itself - Live from Death Row: Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks from prison
- London protest against bombing of Serbia and sanctions against Iraq--"I'm disgusted with the Labour government"
- One month of the Balkan War: a balance sheet
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Robert Altman's mood swing
David Walsh Reviews Cookie's Fortune - Scottish parliament elections: Campaign indicates reversals for Scottish National Party
- Strikes erupt in South Korea against restructuring and job losses
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Radio interview with WSWS Editorial Board Chairman David North
The historical, political and economic background to the war in the Balkans - The terrible impact of sanctions on Iraq: An interview with journalist Felicity Arbuthnot
- US jets kill civilian during training mission in Puerto Rico
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 April 1999
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A filmmaker who takes people seriously
David Walsh reviews The Dreamlife of Angels (La vie rêvée des anges) - Attempted reform of Italian electoral laws collapses
- British cabinet minister accuses Labour MPs opposed to NATO bombing of "appeasing" fascism
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April Oliver speaks
Fired CNN journalist on dismissal of Arnett: "They will do anything to stem the flow of information" - First extra-solar planetary system discovered
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Amidst the media propaganda
Key facts in press accounts refute official rationale for Balkan war - Letters to the WSWS re: the April 15 article "What would be the consequences of a US declaration of war on Yugoslavia?"
- Official report suggests little action on Sydney's water crisis
- Pentagon pressure behind CNN firing of Peter Arnett
- Philadelphia officials lift restrictions on march for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Record US trade deficit evokes warnings
- The fate of democratic rights in the event of war: a reply to readers
23 April 1999
- An appeal from Yugoslav workers
- Mounting anger over Sydney hailstorm disaster
- On the Colorado school shooting
- Pinochet's protector, Margaret Thatcher, declares for war against "evil" Milosevic
- Reaction to school shooting in Littleton, Colorado
- Sharp rightward shift in the Turkish elections
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May Day meetings in London and Berlin
Socialist principles and the war in the Balkans
Stop the bombing of Yugoslavia--Withdraw all NATO forces - Society, politics and the school shooting in Littleton
- The Munich Agreement and the US-NATO war against Yugoslavia: The real lessons of appeasement in the 1930s
- The fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the defense of democratic rights
- US-NATO bombing escalates in Yugoslavia
- Workers Struggles: Europe
24 April 1999
- "Ethnic cleansing" and US foreign policy
- A sharp deterioration in the conditions facing Russian youth
- Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from readers: "The Littleton school killers were bred in this society"
- NATO fiftieth anniversary: Tensions increase between Europe and America
- Some interesting films on US television, April 24-April 30
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An interview with Mark Geragos
Susan McDougal's defense attorney details Kenneth Starr's assault on democratic rights - The US role in the bombing of Yugoslavia: Historical considerations
- The record of the Kosovo Liberation Army: ethnic politics in alliance with imperialism
- Tory premier lauds NDP leader's role in ending Toronto transit strike
26 April 1999
27 April 1999
- Despite "peace" talks, killings continue in East Timor
- Dutch government rocked by parliamentary report into 1992 El Al air crash
- Guinea-Bissau president to be put on trial
- Low pay and conditions in Cambodian textile industry
- Reduced vote for major capitalist parties in Sri Lanka's Provincial Council elections
- Tens of thousands rally in Philadelphia for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral ... American Berserk
- WSWS readers report on protests and opposition to the bombing of Yugoslavia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 April 1999
- Death in Belgrade: an eyewitness report
- Genes that kill malignant skin cancer cells
- LTTE signals support for NATO bombing
- Regarding "Columbine High School Massacre: American Pastoral...American Berserk"
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Australia:
Sit-in at Esso gas plant after worker blamed for explosion - The social tensions underlying the Colorado school shooting
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After the Washington summit
US, NATO escalate war on Serbia - Unknown pig virus kills 117 people in Malaysia
29 April 1999
- A small breach in US press censorship
- American missile kills a dozen children in Serbian town
- Blair outlines his vision of the new military world order
- Korean unions call off subway and Telecom strikes
- Northern Ireland Agreement--What explains the continued deadlock?
- The strange case of two Australian aid workers detained in Yugoslavia
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War in Kosovo hits home
US to boost military spending, activate reservists
30 April 1999
- British High Court ruling opens way for euthanasia of disabled
- From “peacekeeper” to war hawk—Canada and NATO's war on Serbia
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History in the service of ideology
Review of The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism, by Adrian Hastings - NATO's humanitarian attack and the media
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Russia: The end of a world power
What lies behind the domestic crisis? - The Columbine High School massacre: Letters from readers
- The German Green Party at war
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Australia:
Union defends BHP after serious explosion at Newcastle steelworks - Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
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