Archive: September 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
1 September 1999
- A non-election for Singapore's new president
- British government advances quota system for housing asylum-seekers
- Kosovo and the crisis in the Atlantic Alliance
- Next phase of exhumation of mass graves in northern Sri Lanka to begin
- Refugees protest conditions in Belgium's "closed centres" for asylum-seekers
- Why we need Byron
2 September 1999
- A note in appreciation of Eyes Wide Shut
- Ansett New Zealand pilots face lockout
- Australian Education Union conference underscores its own irrelevance
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Teachers fight to defend public education
Detroit strike exposes fraud of school "reform" - Diego Rivera's artistic mastery
- Meeting of the "Shanghai Group" in Bishkek: China moves toward Moscow to strengthen its influence in Central Asia
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
3 September 1999
- Anger and form in the work of Ben Shahn
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Australia to hold "Republic" referendum
But no public discussion about the details - European governments turn against asylum-seekers
- Labour admits class sizes are rising in Britain
- Money laundering and the financial system
- New Zealand Symphony Orchestra musicians protest against union
- Punishment beatings and forced exile thrive in Ireland's "imperfect peace"
- Snapshots of America's brutal society: two more executions, another police killing
4 September 1999
- Cover-up of Waco massacre unravels as new evidence exposes FBI lies
- Morocco claims Ceuta and Melilla
- Protectorate Kosovo: What NATO's war and occupation have wrought
- Some interesting films on US television, September 4-10
- Teachers union leaders conspire to end Detroit schools strike
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After vote for secession
Western powers accelerate plans for military intervention in Timor - Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
6 September 1999
- A letter on It All Starts Today
- After the Turkish earthquake: government amnesties for torturers and criminals
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Belgium's imperialist rape of Africa
King Leopold's Ghost—A story of greed, terror and heroism in colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, Macmillan, 1998, £22.50, ISBN: 0333661265 - Shift work and ill-health
7 September 1999
- Australian laws violate children's rights
- Indian elections: a further shift to the right by the main parties
- Job insecurity, intensification of work damage British workers' health
- Pressure stepped up for UN force in East Timor
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Genocide in Australia
Report details crimes against Aborigines - Sri Lankan government steps up attacks on Tamil civilians in the north
8 September 1999
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A critical look at Britain under New Labour
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, by Nick Cohen -
A resounding setback for Schröder
German Social Democratic Party loses state elections in the Saarland and Brandenburg -
Ongoing consequences of the Gulf War
Casualties increase from use of depleted uranium - New York City teacher comments on the Detroit school strike
- Union leaders betray Detroit teachers' strike: new strategy needed to defend public education
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Australia prepares military intervention in East Timor
What are the real motives? -
The Philippines:
Why 60 people died in the Cherry Hills housing estate - Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 September 1999
- Detroit teacher commends WSWS for printing the truth about the school strike
- Detroit teachers end nine-day strike
- Letter on the situation in Aceh, Indonesia
- Puerto Rican nationalists to be released after two decades in prison
- Signs of decay on America's Labor Day 1999
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Slavery in the modern era
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, by Kevin Bales - The divided opposition in Serbia
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Yangtze floods and the Chinese government's self-satisfied response
10 September 1999
- Australian Productivity Commission finds that gambling is "beneficial"
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The dead end of Chavez's "revolution"
Coup warnings grow in Venezuela - Further evidence of the impact of welfare reform—2.7 million US children living in extreme poverty
- German Armed Forces Federation to demonstrate against cuts in defence budget
- Habibie loses out in power struggle with Indonesian military
- Norway targets immigrants for attack and discrimination
- What lies behind the corruption scandals in the Kremlin?
11 September 1999
- Australian government threatens to imprison Timorese refugees
- British prime minister's "moral crusade" targets the poor
- CBS-Viacom merger: monopolies tighten their grip on the media
- Explosion at US Ford plant: report exposes corporate negligence and union complicity
- Eyes of the child —A chilling documentary exposing child poverty in Britain
- Some interesting films on US television, September 11-17
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The social background of the Victorian state elections
A political comment - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
13 September 1999
- Belgian Foreign Minister criticises US role in Africa
- East Timor and Kosovo: Indonesian atrocities expose US hypocrisy on “human rights”
- Labour to host Britain's largest arms bazaar
14 September 1999
- Germany: The crisis of the Social Democratic Party
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An inarticulate hope
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
Playing at the Royal National Theatre, London through September 18 - Ok Tedi mine closure—BHP and PNG government in conflict
- Three Tamil fishermen killed in northern Sri Lanka
- US and India discuss joint strategy against Afghanistan's Taliban regime
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State Department documents confirm
US hypocrisy on human rights
The case of Turkey - US threats clear way for military intervention in East Timor
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 September 1999
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Australian public health specialist:
"Financial cutbacks have lowered the standard of infection control" in Victoria - General McCaffrey's secret talks: US discussed plans for Colombian intervention
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How Britain crushed the "Mau Mau rebellion"
Channel Four TV's Secret History—Mau Mau - Indian elections: widening chasm between official politics and the working masses
- Pinochet's lawyers seek former dictator's release on grounds of ill health
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State Department documents confirm
US hypocrisy on human rights
The case of Sri Lanka -
"Shoot-to-kill" mandate
Vietnam War veteran to command Australian forces in Timor
16 September 1999
- Australia: The tragic deaths of two Melbourne CityLink construction workers
- Indonesia's accomplices spearhead East Timor "peacekeeping" force
- Iranian court hands down four death sentences in connection with July student protests
- Plan for transport of Indian goods through Bangladesh provokes factional strife within country's elite
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The German army lobbies for rearmament
Soldiers demonstrate against cuts in the defence budget - US auto talks—deal reported near between UAW and DaimlerChrysler
- Wye 2 agreement paves way for restructuring of economic relations in Middle East
17 September 1999
- Australian state government privatises major hospital
- Correspondence on East Timor
- East Timor and protest politics
- Eight dead in Texas church shooting—the latest eruption of social tensions in America
- Patten Report on reform of Royal Ulster Constabulary provokes Unionist outcry
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State Department documents confirm
US hypocrisy on human rights
The case of Israel - Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
18 September 1999
- Buchanan turns to the Reform Party: a new stage in the breakup of the US two-party system
- Deaths from AIDS dwarf war casualties in Africa
- Indonesians protest against security bill and Timor atrocities
- Some interesting films on US television, September 18-24
- Sri Lanka: delay in case of framed Tamil plantation youths
- UAW contract with DaimlerChrysler paves way for further downsizing in US auto industry
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State Department documents confirm
US hypocrisy on human rights
The case of Colombia - Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
20 September 1999
- Bloody Sunday: New reports confirm British troops killed unarmed Irish civil rights protesters
- Deflation accelerates further opening of Chinese economy
- New Zealand parliament gives unanimous backing for East Timor troops
- Russian police begin mass roundups in wake of terror bomb attacks
21 September 1999
- A New York story: different worlds for the children of the rich and the poor
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Spotlight on Australian justice
Aboriginal teenagers jailed, prison suicides treble - Australian imperialism and East Timor: The Prime Minister's Address to the Nation
- The Kosovo war, German "national interests" and the rightward turn of the SPD
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Workers poisoned for decades at Kentucky nuclear weapons plant
22 September 1999
- AIDS crisis in Papua New Guinea
- Australian government refuses visas to Liberian youth soccer team
- Fort Worth, Texas gunman linked to fascist group
- Indian elections: Big business embraces the BJP
- Major earthquake strikes central Taiwan
- New evidence of Britain's arms trade with Indonesia
- New massacres in Burundi civil war
- State elections in Saxony: German Social Democratic Party in free fall
23 September 1999
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Moralizing and opportunism at the rallies on East Timor
A letter from a reader - More Los Angeles Police Department violence and frame-ups exposed
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Nazism and the myth of the "master-race"
Britain's Channel Four Secret History documentary on "Hitler's search for the Holy Grail" -
Alfredo Kraus (1927-1999)
One of Spain's finest tenors dies - Roma and Ashkali driven out of Kosovo en masse
- Sri Lankan airforce bombs Tamil civilians
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
24 September 1999
- Australia: Pollsters, pundits shocked by state election result
- British union leader denounces unofficial walkout after calling for a "strike-free future"
- China backs Australian military intervention into East Timor
- Italy to create a professional army
- KLA given official police function in Kosovo
- Murder trial of Michigan child to begin October 18
- Sri Lankan forces to expand military base on the Jaffna peninsula
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The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival
First in a series of articles by David Walsh - US concerns over political stability in Pakistan
25 September 1999
- Australian tax plan: A "golden honeypot" for the wealthy
- Canadian Auto Workers settles with Ford as US auto talks continue
- Detroit bus drivers stage sick-out
- Following prairie election victories, Canada's social democrats to lurch further right
- Military kills five protesters as Indonesian parliament enacts sweeping security law
- Montreal police carry out mass arrests to quell student strikes
- New charges of cover-up in murder of Irish lawyer
- Some interesting films on US television, September 25-October 1
- Taiwan earthquake: Human toll rises, political fall-out begins
- US corporations cutting jobs at fastest pace in a decade
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
27 September 1999
- Human Rights League lodges complaints over Belgian deportation methods
- Inquiry foreshadows major rationalisation of Australian performing arts
- Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea—no peace for the masses
- US liberals join right-wing attack on clemency for Puerto Rican nationalists
28 September 1999
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The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival— second in a series of articles by David Walsh
A dry bone in a stream
The Wind Will Carry Us, written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, based on an idea by Mahmoud Ayedin - Australia heading for a "quagmire" in East Timor
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After 16 years in the service of big business
Australian trade union leader resigns - Clinton administration blocks easing of sanctions against Iraq
- Labour vote plummets in recent by-elections in Scotland and England
- New York City's mayor threatens Brooklyn Museum
- North Carolina hurricane flooding—the manmade component of a natural disaster
- Pinochet extradition hearing told of torture and murder
- Two workers killed in Ohio coal mine collapse
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 September 1999
- A letter on police brutality in Los Angeles
- Ansett New Zealand pilots fight company lockout
- BBC Radio retrospective on the Anglo-Boer war, 1899-1902
- Chile's "Caravan of Death" creates problems for ruling elite
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Pastrana in Washington
Colombian president asks for $1.5 billion in military aid - European court rules against ban on homosexuals in British armed forces
- Family of murdered Irish civil rights lawyer in libel action against Ulster Unionist MP
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Is this the real thing?
American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes, written by Alan Ball - Stock exchange paid for Australian tax report
- US victory in Ryder Cup meets with chauvinist outburst in Britain
30 September 1999
- A time "out of joint": Peter Zadek's Hamlet at the Berlin Schaubühne
- An exchange with a WSWS reader on ethnic conflict in Nigeria
- Buchanan and the crisis of the US two-party system
- French high school students protest poor conditions and teacher shortages
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The assault on public education in the US
Right-wing organizations push school vouchers in Michigan - US-Japan conflicts over rising yen
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US auto industry talks
United Auto Workers reaches deal with General Motors - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
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