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Archive: July 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

• Joaquín Rodrigo, el famoso compositor español ha muerto
• United States

1 July 1999

• "It is in my inability to conform that I find the passion necessary to create"
  Part 2 of an interview with Sri Lankan film director Prasanna Vithanage
• After the European elections: the view from Italy
• Australian youth suffer sharp falls in jobs and incomes
• Emergency food providers say child hunger is rising in New York City
• Scotland's top defence lawyer exposed as a Protestant bigot
  The Orange Order's continued influence at Rangers FC
• Sri Lankan doctors defy government strikebreaking
• The struggle for Caspian oil, the crisis in Russia and the breakup of the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Federal Reserve opts for small interest rate rise
  US "bubble" continues to inflate
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

2 July 1999

• Background to the Ocalan verdict: European interests and the Kurdish question
• Fraudulent elections in Malawi
  Violence follows re-election of United Democratic Front
• General Motors closes Buick City complex in Flint, Michigan
• Social Democrats and Greens propose drastic cuts in welfare, health, pensions
  Germany's new budget: the beginning of the end of the welfare state
• New proposals for under-fives' education in Britain
  Learning through play an "easy option" — says Labour
• The all-too vigilant John Sayles
  Limbo, written and directed by John Sayles

3 July 1999

• A watering down of Wilde
  An Ideal Husband, directed by Oliver Parker; adapted by Parker, from the play by Oscar Wilde
• Britain's Freedom of Information Act — a charter for state secrecy
• Clinton's Medicare plan would undermine universal health insurance for the elderly
• Germany: The transformation of the Greens' social policy
• Michigan to begin drug testing of welfare recipients
• Pharmaceutical companies dump useless drugs in Albania
• Some interesting films on US television, July 3-9
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

5 July 1999

• Eye witness account of the impact of war and sanctions on Iraq
  "It really is a New World Order imposed by Britain and the US"
  Part One
• Esso blamed for Australian gas explosion
  But Royal Commission obscures underlying causes

6 July 1999

• Eye witness account of the impact of war and sanctions on Iraq
  "It's an attempt to destroy the country's psyche, its historic soul"
  Part Two
• Racist gunman kills himself after three-day rampage in Illinois and Indiana
• Scandal over redundancy payouts hits New Zealand government
• Six dead and 20,000 displaced
  Solomon Islands accord paves the way for further conflict
• Some cracks in the media propaganda front: reports of grossly exaggerated atrocity stories in Kosovo
• Blair fails to gain Unionists' backing
  Talks confirm undemocratic character of Northern Ireland Agreement
• US manufacturing and mining jobs continue to decline
• Officials arrested for shoddy construction
  Youth centre fire in South Korea claims 23 lives

7 July 1999

• Australian community television in crisis
• Canada's military boasts of its role in bombardment of Yugoslavia
• Militia attacks on UN posts in East Timor
• Murder with an idealistic face
• Sectarian violence continues in Northern Ireland despite the "peace process"
• Tony Benn announces his retirement from Westminster
  The end of Fabianism in Britain

8 July 1999

• More of Spike Lee's filmmaking
  Summer of Sam, directed by Spike Lee, written by Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli and Lee
• No reply from CNN
• Quebec nurses' strike at a turning point
• Sri Lanka: People's Alliance regime plans to dismantle free health service
• The 1999 Sydney Film Festival
  WSWS interviews renowned French director Bertrand Tavernier
• Was CNN involved in a NATO effort to assassinate the Serbian information minister?
• When will the US "debt bomb" explode?
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

9 July 1999

• Bangladesh budget heaps on more burdens as poverty grows
• Britain's doctors attack government health policy
• Executions carried out in three US states
• Israel's Prime Minister Barak forms autocratic government
• Music of life
  Starring: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa, Orlando 'Cachaito' Lopez, Barbarito Torres, Ry Cooder and others
• South African asbestos miners sue British company
• A public display of nationalism
  Sydney Olympic organisers dump international youth band
• Union retreats amidst growing mass support to the Sri Lanka doctors' strike
• What does US sanction for the execution of Abdullah Ocalan say about its "humanitarian"aims in the Balkans?
• Workers comment on inquiry into Australian gas explosion

10 July 1999

• British Labour government's latest attack on teen parents
  A modern-day equivalent of the workhouse
• 1999 Sydney Film Festival
  A work of authenticity, artistic substance and optimism
• 1999 Sydney Film Festival
  An interview with Bertrand Tavernier
  "My job is to dream and invent, and out of this produce something that will change the world"
• Clinton's "anti-poverty" tour covers up deepening social polarization
• Australian study highlights new trend
  Families—the fastest growing subgroup of the homeless population
  Book Review: A Long Way From Home — Family Homelessness in the Current Welfare Context by Terry Bartholomew, Deakin University Press, Deakin University, Geelong 1999, ISBN 0 909206 48 1
• Readers comment on the WSWS review of Spike Lee's Summer of Sam
• Some interesting films on US television, July 10-16
• The German army as occupying power... and spearhead for German business
• Bus drivers campaign for "Union members' bill of rights" in Washington state
  The political issues in the fight for workers' democracy
• US scheme to end fighting in Kashmir in doubt
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

12 July 1999

• A comment on Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini
  Tea with Mussolini, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, written by John Mortimer
• Blair denounces public sector workers to an audience of Venture Capitalists
  A man haunted by the persistence of class
• In US presidential campaign: big money backs Bush, Gore and Bradley
• New York cop acquitted in shooting of unemployed "squeegee man"
• PNG Prime Minister resigns after Australian intervention

13 July 1999

• An indictment of fascism and Zionism
  A fitting tribute to a man of principle
  Perdition by Jim Allen premiered at the Gate Theatre, London
• Consumption tax legislation passed in Australia
  A prescription for further social inequality
• Australia: Sacked Oakdale miners work without pay to recover entitlements
• Clinton's selective declassification
  Chile documents expose criminal role of US foreign policy
• Obituary:
  Joaquin Rodrigo, famed Spanish composer dies
• Scores die in US heat wave
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 July 1999

• A supplementary point about the Moreau exhibit
• Gustave Moreau
  An exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (June 1-August 22)
• Kvaerner almost certain to close its Govan shipyard in Scotland
• Mass protests and repression in Iran
• Report on impact of war in Yugoslavia
  Potential environmental catastrophe in Balkans
• Quebec nurses return to work under 48-hour "truce"
  Union bureaucracy seeking to defuse challenge to PQ
• Sharp electoral reverse in the Cook Islands
• Victims' families campaign for reassessment of Tiananmen Square massacre
• World Socialist Web Site Review published

15 July 1999

• A hand held out to Beijing: US policy after Tiananmen Square
• California jury imposes record $4.9 billion fine in GM product liability case
• Long-running trial of Malaysian human rights activist
• More than a quarter million mentally ill in America's jails and prisons
• Next stage in dismemberment of Yugoslavia: push for "independent" Montenegro
• Right-wing US senator quits Republicans, to run for president as independent
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• 1999 Sydney Film Festival
  Works of genuine artistry, worthy efforts and some others

16 July 1999

• BBC programme depicts catastrophic conditions since war resumed in Angola
• Doctors' report "Growing up in Britain" highlights growing inequality in children's health
• New techniques to boost the Internet's capacities
• Pakistan regime in crisis over climbdown in Kashmir
• Social contradictions behind the mass protests in Iran
• The "Chilean Road"—electricity blackouts
• US media attempts to discredit campaign for Mumia Abu-Jamal

17 July 1999

• 1999 Sydney Film Festival
  A conversation with Petr Lutsik
  "To show there is still something alive in the soul of the people"
• Bankers' man installed as PNG Prime Minister
• 1999 Sydney Film Festival
  Outskirts and Checkpoint: two films from Russia
• Some interesting films on US television, July 17-23
• South Korea's economic recovery—a recovery for whom?
• Terrorism indictments brought against six tea plantation workers
  Frame-up of Tamil youth, attack on Sri Lankan SEP
• US racist church linked to more murders
• WSWS readers comment on Kosovo, Kurdistan
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Zimbabwe: Trade unions step in to form a new pro-business party

19 July 1999

• After the elections in Armenia
• Media sensationalism and the Kennedy crash
• Neglect of flood control threatens China for second successive year
• Task Force calls for major attacks on City University of New York
  Crisis threatens public higher education
• The judgement in the show trial of Öcalan and the policies of the PKK
• Interviews and documents show...
  US orchestrated Suharto's 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia
  Part 1: New evidence on how the October 1 coup was triggered

20 July 1999

• Australian tycoon uses police and helicopters against Visy Board strikers
• British Labour's "modernisation programme": transferring public assets to private capital
• Estrada embarrassed by proof of Marcos billions
• Five days in Ecuador general strike
• Labour government agrees deal to keep Govan shipyard open
  Final job cuts to be reviewed in September
• The Moon landings in historical perspective
• Interviews and documents show ...
  US orchestrated Suharto's 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia
  Part 2: Washington called for military government
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

21 July 1999

• Letters from WSWS readers
• Ulster Unionists boycott Assembly
  Northern Ireland "peace process" in disarray
• 1999 Sydney Film Festival
  One of this century's human tragedies, as witnessed by a child
• Interviews and documents show ...
  US orchestrated Suharto's 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia
  Part 3: New light on Australia's active involvement
• US warplanes continue killing in Iraq
  Seventeen dead, eighteen injured near Najaf
• Union agrees to "performance pay" for New Zealand teachers
• Quebec nurses protest against tentative pact
  Union leaders conspire with government to end militant strike
• Xenophobic attacks on North African immigrants in Spain

22 July 1999

• Refugees feared drowned in Indian Ocean
  Australian immigration crackdown claims new victims
• Red Cross reports economic devastation
  Humanitarian disaster in Yugoslavia
• Inside the US prison system—frame-ups, brutality and murder
• Letters on the Moon landing anniversary
• Libya's Colonel Gadhaffi—from pariah to African "statesman"
• Record trade deficit in US fuels tensions with Europe and Asia
• TB on the rise in Britain
• Clarice Beckett Retrospective
  The subtle work of a much-neglected Australian artist
• Australia:
  Two accidents highlight worsening coal mine safety
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

23 July 1999

• Argentine economy in free fall
• Drug companies exploited medical volunteers in Australia
  Human guinea pigs and profiteering in World War II
• Italy bars entry to fleeing Kosovan Gypsies
• Nurses' rejection vote opens way to broader struggle against Quebec government
• Rush to complete new stadium blamed for deaths of three US construction workers
• The impact of globalisation on health and safety at work
  Report issued by the World Health Organisation and International Labour Organisation
• The nature of democracy in capitalist Russia (perhaps not in Russia alone?)
• US and World Bank threaten Indonesia over Timor

24 July 1999

• British government proposes draconian legislation against mentally ill
• Health services as an economic factor-the example of Poland
• Australia:
  Media hysteria fails to prevent release of John Lewthwaite
• Some interesting films on US television, July 24-30
• The crisis in Britain's mental health care
• The death of JFK Jr. and the politics of celebrity
• 1999 Sydney Film Festival
  Well-deserved accolades for new Loach film
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

26 July 1999

• Ford offers settlement to block lawsuits over Michigan plant explosion
• Indonesian generals bid for a major role in next government

27 July 1999

• A contribution to the critique of Jürgen Habermas
• At a loss
  Orphans, written and directed by Peter Mullan
• Australian Premiers call for inquiry into how to cut health spending
• Rogue Trader: A film deeply in awe of the market
  Written and directed by James Dearden
• Australia:
  Shortages of casual teachers highlight education inequality
• Sri Lankan journalists march against crackdown on media
• The massacre of Serbs in Gracko: Who is responsible?
• Unions strangle Quebec nurses' strike
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

28 July 1999

• A letter on the US debt bubble
• An exchange about the financial bubble in the US economy
• Iran: the political situation in the aftermath of the mass protests
• King Hassan of Morocco: world leaders mourn a ruthless despot
• On the WSWS article about the deaths of three US construction workers
• Praise —"Gritty realism" and the problem of perspective
• The Brazilianisation of Britain's cities
  The impact of globalisation on urban development
  Part One
• US Reform Party convention: political confusion and right-wing nostrums

29 July 1999

• "Operation Horseshoe" —propaganda and reality
  How NATO propaganda misled the public
• A military massacre in Aceh
• Dollar fears send tremor through markets
• Niger takes on the trappings of civilian rule
• Poor and elderly die in US heat wave
• Readers write in on the issue of workers' democracy
• Sharp tensions erupt across the Taiwan straits
• The Brazilianisation of Britain's cities
  The impact of globalisation on urban development
  Part Two
• Tories oust Liberals in Nova Scotia election
  Another debacle for Canada's social democrats

30 July 1999

• As US layoffs mount, Federal Reserve threatens moves to undermine workers' wage demands
• Poverty and unemployment in Italy
  Conditions for workers deteriorate under the centre-left D'Alema government
• Scenes from a marriage
  David Walsh reviews Eyes Wide Shut
  Directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Frederic Raphael and Kubrick, based on the novel Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
• The Stephen Lawrence case
  London detective cleared on all but two disciplinary charges in cover-up of racist murder
• The Serbian opposition: a portrait of Zoran Djindjic
• US Congress nears approval of $800 billion tax cut for the rich
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

31 July 1999

• Book Review
  A humane life
  Jackson's Track Memoir of a Dreamtime Placeby Daryl Tonkin & Carolyn Landon, Viking Books ISBN 0-670-88332-8
• Widening media scandal in Australia
  Big business pays millions to radio talkshow host
• Casino gambling in Detroit—low-wage jobs and illusions of striking it rich
• Indonesian opposition leader Megawati breaks two months' silence
• Some interesting films on US television, July 31-August 6
• The Atlanta massacre: what it says about America
• The Sierra Leone peace deal
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia