Archive: October 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
3 June 1996
1 October 1999
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City Hall versus the Brooklyn Museum:
Artistic freedom and democratic rights under attack in New York - Australian companies continue to downsize
- Ecuador default, Colombia devaluation: renewed debt and currency jitters in Latin America
- India and Pakistan vie for US's favor
- Kosovo and East Timor: a reply to a WSWS reader
- Labour's "anti-poverty" audit aimed at final dismantling of British welfare state
- Letter from a WSWS reader
- Pinochet extradition verdict expected October 8
- The Western powers and East Timor—a history of manoeuvre and intrigue
- Turkish security forces massacre political prisoners
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Theatre Review:
Who's Afraid of the Working Class?—the Melbourne Workers Theatre
Stories from behind the statistics
2 October 1999
- Arrests follow pro-Anwar demonstration in Kuala Lumpur
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Letter from a reader
Bush pardoned anti-Cuban terrorist - Canada: Saskatchewan New Democratic Party forms coalition with Liberals
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The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival-third in a series of article by David Walsh
Films from Taiwan and China - Highest number of US executions in 45 years
- Indonesian parliament convenes amid a mounting political crisis
- Russia mounts invasion of Chechnya
- Some interesting films on US television, October 2-8
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
4 October 1999
- Australian Green Paper targets welfare benefits
- Safety violations produce Japan's worst nuclear accident
- Teachers strike in New York suburb of Yonkers
- US agency charges New York City with violating civil rights of workfare participants
5 October 1999
- British Prime Minister Blair tells Labour Party conference "the class war is over"
- Cape Town promotes sex tourism
- Irish nurses set for first all-out strike
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The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival—fourth in a series of articles by David Walsh
Some problems the cinema is equipped to deal with - Strong opposition in New York to Mayor Giuliani's attack on art exhibit
- US Supreme Court upholds conviction of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
6 October 1999
- Australian led "peace-keepers" strike temporary deal with Falintil in East Timor
- Britain's Paddington rail crash claims 27 lives
- Food bank use in Canada continues to rise
- Kenya's President Moi announces economic cutbacks in bid for IMF funding
- Poverty, inequality and disease in Kenya
- Scottish Parliament hit by lobbying scandal
- US Supreme Court rejects delay of murder trial for Michigan child
- What is the path to genuine democracy in Turkey?
- What the UN knew about militia violence in East Timor
7 October 1999
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Census reports highlight inequality, stagnating living standards
44 million Americans lack health insurance - Death toll could be as high as 100 in London rail crash
- Merger of Canada's major airlines will mean massive job losses, fare hikes
- Monopolies grow ever bigger: US telecom merger tops $100 billion mark
- New York City reports outbreak of West Nile virus
- Sordid political horsetrading in the new Indonesian parliament
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The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival—fifth and final in a series of articles by David Walsh
The importance of knowing something about the world - US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal responds to Supreme Court rejection of appeal
- Ultra-right Freedom Party takes second place in Austrian parliamentary elections
- Walkout over racism at Ford UK
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
8 October 1999
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"For us it is hard and inexplicable that this Chilean government is defending Pinochet so strongly"
Interview with the president of the Association of Relatives of Executed Political Prisoners in Chile - 70 confirmed dead and 100 still unaccounted for in London train crash
- A WSWS reader writes on Pat Buchanan and the US elections
- Australian unions preside over "orderly closure" of Newcastle steel plant
- Daewoo collapse threatens further financial crisis in South Korea
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The view from the jaded top
Metropolitan Museum director offers an olive branch to New York Mayor Giuliani - Negotiations to begin in six-month-old Mexican student strike
- Spain's ex-Socialist Party Prime Minister Gonzalez joins defence of Pinochet
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The Kosovo war and the rise of German militarism
Letter from a reader and a reply by WSWS editorial board member Peter Schwarz
9 October 1999
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Death on the US-Mexican border
"Operation Gatekeeper" claims the lives of 444 immigrant workers in five years - British court rules Pinochet extradition to Spain can proceed
- Hindu chauvinist-led coalition to form India's next government
- London rail disaster—interim report fuels rail safety controversy
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Public meetings to be held in Australia
Military intervention in East Timor: What are the real motives? - Some interesting films on US television, October 9-15
- Thai factory explosion kills 35 workers
- Thatcher rallies Tories in defence of Pinochet at British Conservative Party conference
- Two master photographers from Japan
- UN figures show: international production system developing
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
11 October 1999
- A reader criticises WSWS review of radio program on the Anglo-Boer War
- Australian Labor Party backs low pay for young workers
- Social Democratic government in Sweden pressed to adopt euro
- Tamils in northern Sri Lanka denied food rations
12 October 1999
- Australian special forces operating in East Timor months before UN ballot
- Australian trade unions to oversee public sector job cuts
- British Ford workers to ballot on industrial action
- Clinton appeals for Canadian unity
- Comments on poverty conditions in America
- Israeli deal for Palestinian "safe passage" tramples on democratic rights
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Badillo smears immigrants
New York protests continue over City University chief's racist diatribe - Nigerian government clamps down on gas protesters
- US State Department warns against European military independence from NATO
- US autoworkers union reaches deal with Ford
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 October 1999
- "Europeans only" housing legalised in Norway
- Fiftieth anniversary of the Peoples Republic of China: a celebration of nationalism and the market
- Jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson dead at 76
- More evidence of army torture and murder dug up in northern Sri Lanka
- New Indian government to heed demands of big business
- Pakistan military ousts prime minister
- Social crisis in Poland at the breaking point
- Staff strike and student protests highlight crisis in New Zealand universities
- Who's Who in India's ruling NDA coalition
14 October 1999
- December 2 death warrant signed for US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- East Timor provokes Australian foreign policy crisis
- Media witchhunt against Australian school parents association falls flat
- Privatisation, deregulation and the London rail disaster
- Subcontracting in South African mines undercuts workers' wages and conditions
- US signals readiness to work with coup leaders in Pakistan
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
15 October 1999
- Former party chairman attacks German SPD Chancellor Schröder: The Lafontaine debate
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British cabinet reshuffle
Mandelson appointed Northern Ireland Secretary in an effort to rescue "peace process" - Public anger grows over police shooting of innocent London man
- Sinhala Heroes Forum intensifies racist campaign against Tamil workers in Sri Lanka
- Splits widen in the World Trade Organisation
- US Supreme Court rejects appeal of mentally impaired death row inmate
- What big business expects of India's new government
16 October 1999
- Habibie's speech to the Indonesian parliament sparks protests and criticism
- NBC's The West Wing -an illusory view of the Clinton White House
- Pakistani military establishes martial law regime
- Papua New Guinea government rules out independence for Bougainville
- Some interesting films on US television, October 16-22
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- World trade talks seek dismantling of public health, education and services
- Zedillo government spurns victims of Mexico storm and mud slides
18 October 1999
- Appeals filed to block December 2 execution of US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Argentina's presidential candidates vow to slash spending
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Some issues raised by the Brooklyn Museum exhibit
David Walsh reviews Sensation - Wall Street's bleak week: a warning of things to come?
19 October 1999
- British newspaper says NATO deliberately bombed Chinese embassy in Belgrade
- Correspondence on Marx's analysis of interest rates
- New Zealand elections characterised by widespread political disenchantment
- One-quarter of New York City's population lives below the poverty threshold
- Relatives of London man shot dead by police speak out
- Speakers at US conference condemn sanctions against Iraq
- Tensions mounts in Chile after Britain rejects call for Pinochet's immediate release
- The AFL-CIO's endorsement of Al Gore: what it represents and what it doesn't
20 October 1999
- Conflict over oil in Sudan
- Hundreds of thousands hit by Bangladesh floods
- Irish civil rights activist targeted for smear campaign
- Nissan announces 21,000 jobs to go in Japan's first major downsizing
- Second rail collision follows London, Paddington disaster
- Teacher discusses lessons of the Detroit strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 October 1999
- A travesty of democracy: Indonesian parliament anoints Abdurrahman Wahid as president
- Indonesia votes to hand over East Timor to UN control
- Irish hospitals hit by first national nurses' strike
- Mayakovsky's The Bedbug at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin: a missed opportunity
- North London man wins compensation from police for false murder conviction
- Scottish teachers ballot for strike action
- Telstra share values boosted by job destruction
- US Senate rejection of test ban treaty heralds new eruption of American militarism
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
22 October 1999
- Australian government threatens to deport remaining Kosovar refugees
- Britain's Labour government clamps down on protests during visit by Chinese premier
- Côte d'Ivoire's economy dependent on child labour
- Dasa and Aerospatiale Matra SA merge: Europe strengthens its armaments industry
- London Underground signalman: "Train operating companies view safety provisions as a drain on profits"
- Megawati inserted as Indonesian vice-president to head off social unrest
- US judge rules secret evidence unconstitutional, orders release of Palestinian immigrant
23 October 1999
- "We're all corrupt," says Republican contender in the US election sweepstakes
- IMF-World Bank conflict over assessment of Asian crisis
- New report shows sharp growth of inequality in Britain
- Russia poised for all-out attack on Chechen capital
- Some interesting films on US television, October 23-29
- Switzerland sends Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon back to France
- The Australian Ballet in New York City
- University of Papua New Guinea shuts early after student protests over fee rises
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 October 1999
- British agriculture faces worst crisis since 1930s
- Concessions at Dayton Delphi plant reveal content of new contracts with US auto companies
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Global warming and capitalism
The Heat is On by Ross Gelbspan - Sri Lankan police step up harassment of estate workers after bomb explosion
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The films of François Truffaut
David Walsh reviews a program of the filmmaker's works at the Detroit Film Theatre
26 October 1999
- A New Zealand clothing company goes "global" and shuts all local factories
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Washington and the Pinochet coup in Chile
Declassified documents confirm US role in 1973 death of Charles Horman - New Indonesian president pledges to encourage foreign investment and private enterprise
- On George Bush's pardon of anti-Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch
- Two Hands —Exaggerated praise for an Australian comedy
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 October 1999
- Federal judge grants stay of execution for US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Labor forms new minority state government in Australia
- Opposition to KLA grows in Kosovo
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Right-wing journalist warns of Britain's collapse into chaos
The Abolition of Britain—from Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair, by Peter Hitchens - Sri Lankan president calls snap poll
- WSWS readers discuss health care, jobs
28 October 1999
- Australian media inquiry: the millionaire talkback radio hosts from "Struggle Street"
- Britain's hereditary peers vote to abolish their constitutional role
- Sri Lankan postal authorities victimise Socialist Equality Party member
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Three American films: Sadness, and less
The Limey-Three Kings-Bringing Out the Dead - US presidential race: Buchanan quits Republicans to run third-party campaign
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
29 October 1999
- British appeal court quashes conviction after hearing of police torture
- Fiji's new Labour-led coalition ditches its promises for better living standards
- Irish nurses strike suspended pending membership ballot
- On-the-spot report from Michigan courtroom: Scenes from the murder trial of a 13-year-old
- Shooting death of Armenian prime minister heightens crisis in the Caucasus
- US expert outlines social and environmental disaster in Russia
- US schedules five executions this week
30 October 1999
- Blacklisted US film director Abraham Polonsky dead at 88
- Britain's rail union calls off national conductors strike
- Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields going for a song
- New York City forces homeless to work or face eviction from shelters
- Pakistan's military regime to implement IMF dictates
- Some interesting films on US television, October 30-November 5
- The new Indonesian cabinet: a precarious government of "national unity"
- Trade war over beef between Britain and France
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 September 2008
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