Archive: June 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.
1 June 1999
- Britain reported to have offered 50,000 troops for Kosovo invasion force
- Falling euro a symptom of wider problems
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Interview with a WSWS reader
Joblessness and poverty in South Korea - The Milosevic indictment: legal document or political diatribe?
- Two "spy" trials provoke different media responses
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Sri Lanka:
Two public lectures against US-NATO bombing of Serbia - US study establishes link between dioxin and cancer
- Video shows that Israeli security forces were responsible for the murder of Kurdish demonstrators
2 June 1999
- Bombardment of Yugoslavia creates ecological disaster
- Clinton's welfare reform has increased child poverty
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Mike Harris and the Toronto Star on union "power" and union "bosses"
A comment on the Ontario election campaign - Spain strengthens borders against African refugees
- Student protests erupt in Côte d'Ivoire
- The Parsons Dance Company: Luminescent theatricality or hodgepodge?
- Turkey begins its show trial of Abdullah Ocalan
- Was 1933's "Gabriel over the White House" inspired by California gubernatorial election?
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Victims of NATO's war
Who is responsible for the deaths of Milena Malobabic and Sanja Milenkovic? - Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 June 1999
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Obituary: Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)
"Concepts involve the future, possessions don't" - Blair government seeks closure of Summerhill school
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Australian Democrats rescue Howard government
Consumption tax will hurt workers, students, pensioners and the poor -
Business as usual at the Teamsters
Hoffa blocks car haulers strike, accepts concessions - Indonesian garment workers continue to fight company violence
- Ottawa rally against NATO's bombardment of Yugoslavia
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Safety of genetically modified food questioned
Interview with gene scientist, Dr Arpad Pusztai - Sri Lanka: 300 families struggle for a place to live
- Turkey: Fascists and Social Democrats form new government
- Workers Struggles: Europe
4 June 1999
- A Russian Winter's Tale
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Indonesian election campaign:
East Timor trip provides a revealing glimpse of Megawati's politics -
The second front
German finance minister announces 30 billion DM budget cut - Philadelphia mayor witch-hunts supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Serbia accepts NATO terms, but air strikes continue
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Ten years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
Political lessons for the working class - The Milosevic indictment: a mass of contradictions
- The brutal society: A police manhunt in Pittsburgh
- Twelfth death row prisoner released in Illinois after being proven innocent
5 June 1999
- ANC election victory signals further "market reforms"
- Europe moves towards independent military role
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Bestiality, humanity and servility
How Jürgen Habermas defends the Balkan war - Maritime Union of Australia determined to impose job cuts
- Mayor to New York schools: "It's not the money"
- Ontario Tories re-elected—Harris government will intensify class war
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Some features of the Star Wars phenomenon
Star Wars—Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, written and directed by George Lucas - Some interesting films on US television, June 5-June 11
- The toll of NATO's war
- UN relief agencies warn of humanitarian disaster in Yugoslavia
- US pharmaceutical companies reap huge profits from AIDS drugs
- Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
7 June 1999
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The thin façade of democracy:
Army on full alert as Indonesian voters go to the polls - Indonesian police seize eight students during a Bandung election rally
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Kashmir crisis at the boil
Amid preparations for a new military offensive, India puts off talks with Pakistan
8 June 1999
- "Free market" program boosts world poverty
- A new round of job cutting in New Zealand
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A powerful theatrical presentation of an outstanding piece of literature
Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, performed at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin -
Dioxin contamination scandal hits Belgium
Effects spread through European Union and beyond - NATO escalates attack on Yugoslav sovereignty
- Safety agency says Ford hinders probe into February explosion at Michigan factory
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The Show Trial of Abdullah Ocalan in Turkey
What lies behind the behaviour of the PKK leader? - Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 June 1999
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"The American government picks and chooses which situation to intervene in for its own economic interest"
Demonstrator at Washington march - A letter from a Harlem teacher: The crisis of funding in New York City schools
- Antiwar protests in Prague
- Cathay Pacific pilots call "sick-in" over pay cuts
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Run-up to the European elections
Danish government lays ground for growth of racist party - NATO "peace" sets stage for expulsion of Kosovan Serbs
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Australia:
New push to block registration of independent political parties - On the legalisation of drugs
- Sierra Leone peace talks expose Blair's "ethical" foreign policy
- Sri Lanka: Displaced Colombo families appeal to the working class to support their struggle
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Honeywell, Procter & Gamble plan big cuts
US stock market surges in response to continued assault on jobs - Washington march protests NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
10 June 1999
- Bank sounds warning on global stability
- Demonstrators in Australia denounce NATO bombing
- Mel Torme, an appreciation
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Biggest one-day slaughter in war
NATO cluster bombs kill hundreds of Serb troops -
"We're willing to strike because we are sick of being walked on"
Northwest Airline flight attendants rally in Detroit - Thousands of layoffs in Japan
- Visit by US envoy intensifies pressure on North Korea
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
11 June 1999
- Australian government introduces Internet censorship laws
- British Tories in discussions with Italian neo-fascists
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"Towards ten in the evening the sirens sound as if by command"
Experiences from the war in Yugoslavia: the diary of a journey - Intrepid thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union
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British Immigration and Asylum Bill
Labour government averts backbench rebellion - Procter & Gamble to cut 15,000 jobs worldwide
12 June 1999
- "One-sidedness" in Yugoslavia war coverage: An exchange
- Australia's "golden age" of prosperity ... and poverty
- Clinton's speech on Yugoslavia: piling lie upon lie
- Drug abuse in Britain
- Indonesian elections: an overwhelming vote against the ruling Golkar Party
- Intrepid thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union—Part 2
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IMF pressure on Obasanjo
New government in Nigeria prepares austerity measures - Some interesting films on US television, June 12-June 18
- Transnational corporations in China
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
14 June 1999
15 June 1999
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Austin's lost powers
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, directed by Jay Roach, written by Mike Myers and Michael McCullers - Germany: the Alternative-Green-Left "Network" is stillborn
- Greater London Authority: Election restriction no answer to far-right threat
- NATO-Russian standoff in Kosovo contains seeds of future wars
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Fall of the "Dark Prince"
New York's top cop quits after brutality trial - Social democrats suffer record losses in European elections
- Taped address from Mumia Abu-Jamal at college commencement sparks right-wing protests
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 June 1999
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The forging of a new art
"New Art for a New Era: Malevich's Vision of the Russian Avant-Garde" At the Barbican Centre, London -
An apologia for Stalinism
Book Review: The Reds—The Communist Party of Australia from Origins to Illegality, by Stuart Macintyre, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998 - Anwar put on trial again as Malaysian government prepares for elections
- Belgian government suffers heavy losses in general election
- European elections: Greek vote reflects widespread hostility to NATO bombing
- Illinois prosecutors and police acquitted despite evidence they framed defendant
- KLA seizes Kosovo positions, Serb flight grows
- Miners denounce sacking with no entitlements
- Profit before people: 16 workers die in Chinese factory fire
- Readers reply to "After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War"
- The law of value and the crisis of capitalism
17 June 1999
- Britain’s Blair and Germany’s Schröder present a joint programme: “The Third Way/Neue Mitte”
- Elections show Denmark split on European Union
- India and Pakistan prepare for a wider war
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Justice Denied: The Hurricane Carter Story
A & E television series examines wrongful conviction and incarceration in the US - NATO spokesman Jamie Shea: the education of a war propagandist
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Rising tensions on the Korean peninsula:
South Korea sinks North Korean torpedo boat -
To the victor belongs the spoils
Or why America's liberals love the Kosovo war - Trinidad executes nine in four days
- Virginia to execute juvenile offender
- WSWS reader comments on the US media and the Balkan war
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
18 June 1999
- An exchange with UAW President Yokich on the Ford Rouge explosion
- Another "executed" Kosovar leader back from the dead
- Ethiopian-Eritrean war draws in neighbouring states
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German trade unions vote for job cuts
New Opel (GM) plant in Rüsselsheim means 4,000 fewer jobs - Kosovan "mass graves"agitation: US media seeks to justify NATO war
- Kosovar refugees object to sub-standard conditions in Australia
- Nervous wait for interest rate decision
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"What was being committed there was one the biggest savageries of history."
Spanish pilot says US ordered targeting of civilians in Yugoslavia - US auto contract talks open: UAW ready to collaborate as Big Three auto makers prepare massive job cuts
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Australia:
Victorian government fails to stop sacked teacher's legal challenge
19 June 1999
- A reader comments on Notting Hill
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No spy charges against Wen Ho Lee
China espionage case collapses -
Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Jackson no stranger to ethnic warfare
Head of NATO force in Kosovo was second-in-command at "Bloody Sunday" massacre in Ireland - Kellogg to lay off hundreds at Michigan plant
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Legal action over dioxin poisoning in Belgium
Coca-Cola products hit by new contamination scandal - Some interesting films on US television, June 19-25
- Texas executes Canadian Stanley Faulder
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The brutal society
The stun belt: Torture at the push of a button - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 June 1999
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Legacy of dictatorship
Brazilian police chief resigns over torture - Refugees risk health and lives to reach Australia
22 June 1999
- A letter from Julie Hiatt Steele to the World Socialist Web Site
- Debt relief: A yawning gap between rhetoric and reality
- Europe's plan to control the Balkans
- IMF sets economic agenda for next Indonesian government
- Labour lays down pro-business agenda for new Scottish Parliament
- More letters in response to "After the Slaughter: The Political Lessons of the Balkan War"
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As ECOMOG troops prepare to pull out
President Taylor cracks down in Liberia -
Australia:
Public meeting draws lessons of Balkans war - Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 June 1999
- 5.2 million young children in US growing up in poverty
- British Steel and Hoogovens merge
- Clinton's speech in Slovenia: an abysmal display of ignorance
- European elections seen as prelude to general election in Spain
- Eye-witness says Indonesian minister shot newsmen in Timor
- Is economic value subjective?
- Kosovo, Kashmir and the New York Times
- US Supreme Court upholds federal death sentence
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Violent clashes in the City of London
Home Secretary threatens further arrests - Wagons East—NATO oil trade route war
24 June 1999
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Social breakdown and the American police mentality
Fourteen-year-olds charged as adults in school shooting plot - German interests in the war against Yugoslavia
- New evidence of RUC collusion in murder of Irish lawyers
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Two years after the economic meltdown
No end to the social crisis in Asia in sight - US youth crime bill: more children to be tried as adults
- Wage freeze hits Philippine workers and poor
- Widespread repression in Bangladesh countryside
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
25 June 1999
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A superb history of Australia's founding
A review of The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes -
Atrocity claims and the politics of propaganda
A second reply to a supporter of the Balkan war - Kosovo—A Call To Conscience
- NATO forces complicit in ethnic cleansing of Serbs
- Prisons galore: the real face of the New South Wales budget
- Saving Private Ryan: First and second impressions
- US Supreme Court rulings attack democratic rights
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Five years of Operation Gatekeeper
US border crackdown sends immigrant deaths soaring - US chemical weapons testing scandal in Thailand
26 June 1999
- Bouteflika seeks Western investment in Algeria
- Eyewitness account from Sri Lanka: Tamil mass graves excavated in Chemmani
- G-8 powers warn North Korea over missile tests
- Greenspan points to "imbalances" in US economy
- Some interesting films on US television, June 26-July 2
- Suspect arrested for murder of Irish lawyer claims he was an RUC agent
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Australia:
Teachers and parents oppose "Self Governing Schools" - The European Union elections and the German far-right
- US places a $5 million bounty on Milosevic
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 June 1999
- Australia becomes a "share-owning democracy"?
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Failure of US diplomatic mission brings ...
India and Pakistan closer to all-out war - UN Timor ballot delayed as military violence continues
29 June 1999
- AIDS is number one killer worldwide: Zimbabwe is worst hit country
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Fifty years of American art
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950, an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, April 23 to August 22, 1999 - Israel bombs Beirut and threatens heavier strikes
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New York Times exposé of the Kosovo Liberation Army
KLA leader Thaci ordered rivals executed, rebel commanders say - Labour's European election debacle raises the spectre of the class divide in Britain
- Papua New Guinea government likely to fall
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Attacks on Kosovar Serbs intensifying
The US, the KLA and ethnic cleansing - Widespread public sector strikes in Corrientes, Argentina
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 June 1999
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"An artist must do only what he believes in"
An interview with Sri Lankan film director Prasanna Vithanage - A comment on Intrepid thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union
- Huge pollution cloud discovered over Indian Ocean
- Quebec nurses enter fourth day of general strike
- RUC given advance warning of the 1989 murder of Irish lawyer
- Sacked Australian miners given no help in Canberra
- The Forbes 200 list: billions for the privileged few
- The Ocalan verdict: US realpolitik in league with the Turkish hangman
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