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Archive: August 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

• Después de la Matanza: Lecciones Políticas de la Guerra de los Balcanes
• The political lessons of the Waco massacre
  Reprinted from The International Workers Bulletin —April 26, 1993

2 August 1999

• Australian rural town acts to defend education facilities
• LTTE suicide bomber kills another prominent political opponent in Sri Lanka
• Letters to the WSWS on JFK, Jr. and the Balkans
• Obuchi raises the banner of Japanese nationalism

3 August 1999

• Minister murdered in Western Samoa
• Public transport privatised in Australian state
• The Falun Gong crackdown: a crisis in China's corridors of power
• Case highlights use of secret evidence
  US judge orders release of immigrant held three years in solitary confinement
• US steps up counter-insurgency operations in Colombia
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 August 1999

• An exchange on the Wim Wenders film Buena Vista Social Club
• NATO general ordered military assault on Russian troops at end of Yugoslav war
• Over 300 feared killed in Indian train disaster
• Protests over unpaid wages in Argentina
• Rural discontent repressed in China
• The New York Times and Clinton's contempt fine: the impeachment cover-up continues
• The case of British Tory Treasurer Michael Ashcroft: wealth, patronage and parliamentary politics

5 August 1999

• Biography falls short of penetrating myth surrounding ANC leader
  Mandela—The Authorised Biography
• Depleted uranium weapons used in Balkan War expected to cause thousands of fatal cancers
• Indonesian military cracks down in Ambon, Batam and Aceh
• Australia:
  State Labor government tries to hide cuts to Technical and Further Education
• Strike wave in South Africa
• UN report on Eastern Europe and the former USSR
  The 'free market's' social catastrophe
• The Balkan summit in Sarajevo: a shabby colonialist exercise
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

6 August 1999

• An interview with Deepa Mehta, director of Earth
  "If people want to separate they should understand what it would really mean"
• Dow and Union Carbide to merge: two companies that have profited from the deaths of thousands
• German foreign policy and the abduction of PKK leader Cevat Soysal
• Profit drive blamed for Swiss canyon tragedy
• Retired US steelworkers oppose agreement with USX Corp.
• Ricky Blackmon the first of seven Texas death row prisoners to be executed in the next two weeks
• UN Human Development Report finds:
  Social inequality and poverty increasing worldwide

7 August 1999

• Asia's monsoon floods affect tens of millions
• Crisis of overproduction devastating American agriculture
• Next step in carve-up of the Balkans: Montenegrin regime approves plan for statehood
• In wake of Kashmir retreat
  Pakistani opposition presses for Sharif's resignation
• Some interesting films on US television, August 7-13
• Drop Dead Gorgeous
  The beauty pageant and other ugly American phenomena—winning by any means necessary
• US pushes for military involvement in East Timor
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

9 August 1999

• Battle over censorship and control at California radio station
• New pressures for economic restructuring as
  Japan's jobless rate hits record high
• The United States of Italy
• What is involved in the Genetically Modified Food debate?

10 August 1999

• "Second wave" industrial laws to strip workers' rights in Australia
• A letter on the music of Joaquin Rodrigo
• "When the terrors of life outweigh the terrors of death..."
  Another murder-suicide in Australia
• Dollar fears spark market jitters
• Thirteen farm workers killed in California van crash
• White House plan for FBI Internet spying
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

11 August 1999

• Bringing the lessons home
  An interview with Jim Allen conducted in 1995
• Brutal police attack claims 17 lives in southern India
• Events on Florida's death row underscore barbarism of the US judicial system
• Jim Allen: A lifetime's commitment to historical truth
• Readers comment on the WSWS
• The Austrian writer Peter Handke, European public opinion, and the war in Yugoslavia
• The number one task of US Congress: how to make the rich richer
• Two parliamentarians charged over murder of Samoan minister
• US, Japan exert sharp pressure on North Korea over possible missile test

12 August 1999

• Fascist gunman attacks Jewish center in Los Angeles
• NATO's "mistaken" ethnic cleansing
• Leaked documents show ...
  Plan to send 15,000 US Marines to East Timor
• Refugees mount protests and escapes at remote Australian detention centre
• Simmering tensions in UN Security Council as
  Richard Butler denounces Kofi Annan
• A lament for the "good old days"
  The autobiography of Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove
• US job cuts continue at record pace
• Who is NATO's new General Secretary George Robertson?
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Working and poor in the United States

13 August 1999

• A reply to correspondence on Marx's theory of value
• Australian miners strike to defend entitlements
• Australian schoolgirl contracts HIV via blood transfusion
• Civil war in Namibia
• Correspondence from MM
• Intimidation against settlers continues in Solomon Islands
• Kansas Board of Education removes evolution from science curriculum
• India shoots down Pakistani plane
  New crisis in Indo-Pakistani relations
• China-Taiwan crisis worsens
  Rival warplanes patrol the Taiwan Strait

14 August 1999

• A damning report on Australian Aboriginal health and welfare
• Behind the government change in Russia: coming elections heighten power struggle of post-Soviet oligarchs
• Britain: what the Liberal Democrats' leadership contest reveals about New Labour
• China Democracy Party members face political trials
• Iraqi child deaths have doubled under UN-imposed sanctions
• Some interesting films on US television, August 14-20
• The New South Wales rail system—a disaster waiting to happen
• US political notes: Pat Robertson favors assassinations, Congress promotes religion in schools
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

16 August 1999

• Howard aims for a corporate tax bonanza in Australia
• Inadequate safety measures behind rail disasters in India
• Internet produces conflict between commerce and censorship
• Sister of mentally ill prisoner facing August 17 execution in Texas: "A segment of society is applauding a man's death"

17 August 1999

• Australian authorities bar Deaf Congress delegates from entering the country
• Ethnic conflict escalates in Nigeria
• Hot nights in the city: New York City's environmental future
• Social inequality and the World Wide Web
• Turkish trade union leader murdered
• US continues buildup
  Warnings of "Vietnamization" of Colombian civil war
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

18 August 1999

• Cindy Sherman Retrospective
  An artist to be taken seriously
• A focus for imperialist intrigue
  Civil war erupts again in Afghanistan
• Efforts stepped up in Spain to prevent trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
• IMF tightens the screws on Zimbabwe
• Iowa straw poll: the decadence of American politics on display
• New faction in the German Green party
  Right-wing young Greens go on the offensive
• Texas court issues last-minute stay of execution of mentally ill death row prisoner
• As WTO prepares for "Millennium Round"
  World trade conflicts intensify

19 August 1999

• "Eyes wide shut": The reopening of Columbine High School
• China spying charges denounced as racist frame-up
• New PNG government implements IMF's economic restructuring demands
• Arrest of workers continues as
  South Korean president releases rival's wealthy son
• The continued drastic impact of the AIDS epidemic on sub-Saharan Africa
• Thousands die in Turkey earthquake
  Unsafe construction blamed for high death toll
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

20 August 1999

• Anger mounts in Turkey following earthquake disaster
• Contract employee dies in accident at Rouge Steel in Dearborn, Michigan
• Dover, England refugees become focus of chauvinist campaign
• Fissures widen in Northern Ireland Agreement
• Malaysian government instigates a politically motivated 'anti-corruption' drive
• Serbs and Roma flee KLA terror in Kosovo
• The impact of growing labor productivity: a letter from a WSWS reader
• An exchange of letters
  The impact of increasing labour productivity on the crisis of profit system

21 August 1999

• A reader comments on Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and David Walsh replies
• Former AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland dies: a Cold War anti-communist and servant of big business
• French police arrest 210 asylum-seekers
• Kellogg and Pratt & Whitney top list of US job cuts
• Kirkland and the Bulletin newspaper: a revealing exchange
• Moscow escalates intervention in Dagestan
• Some interesting films on US television, August 21-27
• Typhoon compounds North Korean food shortages
• Earthquake finds US energy secretary in Turkey
  What was Bill Richardson up to in Istanbul?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 August 1999

• Britain's Home Secretary denounced for inciting racial hatred against Gypsies
• Cambodian activists found innocent over toxic dumping protests
• Kenneth Starr and his accomplices: new aspects of the impeachment conspiracy
• The resegregation of US public schools

24 August 1999

• Nachtgestalten [Nightshapes]: a new film by Andreas Dresen...
  ... A wind from the East
• Bank Bali scandal puts pressure on Indonesian President Habibie
• British mercenaries planned assassination of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan
• The PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) publicly renounces the armed struggle
• The breakdown of the profit system
  Letter from a WSWS reader
• The breakdown of the profit system: perception and scientific analysis
• Turkish government calls off rescue efforts as earthquake death toll mounts
• US military trains for urban warfare
• Wall Street's dirty secret: 1990s boom based on smashing of labor in the 1980s
• Workers Struggle: The Americas
• Youth suicides in New Zealand prisons

25 August 1999

• Australian firefighters demand better death and disability pensions
• British Columbia's premier felled by casino-licensing scandal
• British Home Secretary pushes through scheme to disperse asylum-seekers
• How the Turkish earthquake disaster was prepared
• New revelations in murder of Irish civil rights lawyer
• The atmospheric music of Underground Lovers
• The earthquake in Turkey: Western bankers see a silver lining
• Trade deficit fuels fears of dollar crisis

26 August 1999

• Detroit school board demands sweeping concessions from teachers
• Labour government cuts public spending in Britain to lowest rate in 40 years
• New York's asthma rates reveal social disparities
• Snapshots of America's brutal society: state murder, police corruption and the expanding prison population
• South African public sector workers hold mass one-day strike
• Three years of US welfare reform: hunger grows, poverty deepens
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

27 August 1999

• As Papua New Guinea government prepares to privatise
  Air Niugini sacks engineers
• Bangladesh government crackdown on women engaged in prostitution
• Bank of New York probe exposes ties between Western financiers and Russian Mafia
• Six-year cover-up cracks
  FBI admits use of incendiary grenades at Waco
• Physical education cuts in Britain threaten children's health
• RUC reform increases tensions in Irish peace agreement
• Scant international aid for Turkish earthquake disaster
• Trial date set for 14-year-old Michigan youth charged with first-degree murder

28 August 1999

• Britain's Labour government massages the figures on hospital waiting time
• Clashes continue in Dili as
  East Timorese prepare to vote in UN referendum
• One and a half million poor in Britain going without gas and electricity
• Political aftershocks in Turkey
• Some interesting films on US television, August 28-September 3
• UN reports reveal global growth of drug abuse
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

30 August 1999

• A third of all those evicted in Britain suffer with mental illness
• Another comment on Eyes Wide Shut
• Australian parliament "regrets" injustice to Aboriginal people
  Behind the politics of "reconciliation"
• The political issues facing Detroit teachers
• The speculative appreciation of the stock market: a reply to a letter

31 August 1999

• American Airlines workers indicted for drug smuggling: critical issues behind the headlines
• Civil liberties in the US threatened on two electronic fronts
• Congo peace deal reveals continuing instability
• Mass meeting overrules union leaders
  Detroit teachers launch strike
• Greenspan's warning: confidence appears normal until the moment it is breached
• NATO's landmines and cluster bombs kill or maim 150 in Kosovo
• US bosses' pay is 400 times the average worker's
• Workers Struggles: The Americas