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Archive: December 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

• La decision de ETA de poner fin al alto el fuego provoca una crisis política en España
• Mehring Books Holiday Offer
  25 percent discount on all books and pamphlets

1 December 1999

• Australian union joins building companies to win contracts in East Timor
• Fresh evidence that NATO's bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade was deliberate
• Molson brewery workers occupy Ontario plant
• New York City Ballet musicians on strike
• Police attack protesters at Seattle WTO meeting
• Stage set for a clash between Free Aceh supporters and Indonesian security forces
• The humanity of Van Dyck
• US releases Egyptian jailed for three years on secret evidence

2 December 1999

• Arrests of protesters at WTO meeting in Seattle near 500
• British police attack anti-WTO protesters in London
• Comedy, despair, isolation
  Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze, written by Charlie Kaufman
• What price increased productivity?
  Four miners killed in Australian mine disaster
• Amid hostility to market reforms
  Nationals defeated in New Zealand elections
• US Department of Agriculture report shows 10.5 million households without adequate food
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

3 December 1999

• At least seven dead in second worst rail disaster in Australia's history
• Clinton interview sparks warnings of WTO split
• First complete privatisation of a Local Education Authority in Britain
• Letters on the Nathaniel Abraham verdict
• More readers write in on the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash
• Nawaz Sharif faces possible death sentence in Pakistan court
• PKK leader Ocalan's fate remains undecided after death sentence upheld by Turkish appeals court
• Power devolved to Northern Ireland Assembly
• The plausible and the implausible in Carolyn Chute's Snow Man
• Washington Post Online echoes official line on Chinese embassy bombing

4 December 1999

• 18,000 jobs threatened in Scottish take-over bid for National Westminster Bank
• Australian teachers oppose worsening conditions in new NSW award
• Canada: Federal government to change rules on Quebec secession
• Financial scandal envelops former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
  What's behind the corruption campaign and who benefits?
• International banker points to fundamental crisis in global capitalism
• Political instability in Catalan region of Spain following election losses for ruling party
• Some interesting films on US television, December 4-10
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

6 December 1999

• Nine prisoners die in Madras Central Jail riot
• Over 280 dead in Chinese ferry disaster
• The social meaning of the anti-WTO protests in Seattle
• Touring Russian orchestra forced to busk on streets
• Where is the German Party of Democratic Socialism going?

7 December 1999

• A comment on Freudianism and Marxism
• Assassination of Islamist opposition leader destabilises Algeria
• End of remedial courses at four-year colleges
  City University of New York to exclude thousands of students
• David Lynch's compassion
  The Straight Story, directed by David Lynch, written by John Roach and Mary Sweeney
• Indian government to accelerate pro-investor "reform"with Congress backing
• Letter on the conditions of children in Pakistani prisons
• Malaysian election results a blow to the Mahathir government
• Six die in Detroit house fire
  Firefighters not equipped to cut through home's security bars
• Thailand expels thousands of Burmese immigrant workers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

8 December 1999

• A metaphor for post-Soviet Russia
  Review of Alexey Slapovsky's The Little Cherry Orchard
• Army massacres civilians and police shoot to kill in Nigeria
• Disenchantment dominates Chilean election campaign
• German SPD conference strikes a new note in foreign policy
• Pope's visit to India exacerbates tensions in BJP-led government
• Sentencing postponed for 13-year-old Michigan youth convicted of murder
• Four days of violence and death
  Social conditions and tensions in the US take their toll
• Sri Lanka: LTTE's support tilts towards UNP presidential candidate
• The collapse of the WTO talks: What this means for global capitalism
• US Supreme Court to consider reversing Miranda decision

9 December 1999

• A letter on the WTO talks
• A mind so open that the brain fell out
  Dogma, written and directed by Kevin Smith
• Bitter contest in Sri Lankan presidential elections
• Mad Cow Disease inquiry reveals how British government protected pharmaceutical companies at expense of public health
• Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat clamps down on his critics
• Thousands rally in defense of the homeless in New York
• Workers Struggles: Europe and the Middle East
• Australian jury unmoved by government campaign
  Young boy acquitted of manslaughter

10 December 1999

• Britain demands swift action against France over beef ban
• Britain extends diplomatic recognition to Libya
• Despite new treatments, world AIDS deaths continue to rise
  Wide disparity seen between rich and poor nations
• Detroit museum controversy: Censored artist defends his exhibit
• Dozens of Sri Lankan refugees killed in artillery attack on church
• Military chiefs call the shots in the Indonesian cabinet
• More on Freudianism and Marxism
  A reader responds to an exchange of letters between WSWS contributors Alan Whyte and Frank Brenner

11 December 1999

• A reader writes in on the Malaysian elections
• Australian government pressures Timor refugees to leave
• Blair government refuses public inquiry into deaths in police custody
• Chilean President revives labour reforms in bid to win votes
• Growing social divide in Britain
  Blair seeks to refute new study on the widening gap between rich and poor
• Nuclear saber-rattling from Yeltsin as Chechen War intensifies
• One in eight South Africans HIV-positive
• Some interesting films on US television, December 11-17
• The Nathaniel Abraham case and the conditions facing Michigan's children
  "Here is this mother begging for assistance and no one responds"
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

13 December 1999

• A brave New World —not that you'd know it
  Amazons of the avant-garde—an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London until February 6
• Britain's further education cuts cause working class students to drop out
• Clinton lectures the world on labor standards—but what is the state of workers' rights in America?
• The Bauhaus—its artistic and social significance
  Former Bauhaus student speaks in Liverpool and Sheffield
• Spratlys continue to loom as Asian flashpoint
• The record of the PA government
  Sri Lanka plantation workers hit by declining wages and conditions after privatisation

14 December 1999

• US spurns father's appeal for return of Elian Gonzalez
  Cuban child sacrificed to right-wing political agenda
• Frankfurt intends to "go it alone" in creating pan-European stock exchange
• Helsinki summit marks aggressive turn by Europe
• Incoming Labour Prime Minister rules out immediate rises in pensions and wages in New Zealand
• New York transit workers prepare for December 15 contract expiration
• Three prisoners set to die December 14 as US executions near 100 for the year
• US protests demand freedom for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 December 1999

• Australia: new Labor government in Victoria defends Kennett's gagging laws in the Supreme Court
• Cuban detainees take hostages at Louisiana jail
• German SPD party congress: united without a perspective
• Italian officials ignored tenants' complaints in apartment building collapse
• JVP enters Sri Lankan election with an eye to a deal with the major parties
• Mounting concern over failure of World Trade Organisation talks
• Supreme Court declares government's gag clause invalid
  Sacked Australian teacher wins significant victory
• The Worcester fire and the social crisis in America

16 December 1999

• "The heart and soul of country music is the experiences of ordinary people"
  An interview with Dale Watson
• Croatian President Franjo Tudjman dies
  "He was a monster, but he was our monster"
• In wake of anti-strike injunction, New York transit union accepts tentative contract
• Indian tea estate workers still on strike after six months
• Two-tier system in New York City parks
• US brokers Syria-Israel talks
• WSWS reporters visit refugee camps in the war-ravaged north of Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

17 December 1999

• Australian Labor Party wins safe Liberal seat in Victorian by-election
• British Labour government intensifies attacks on asylum-seekers
• Inexcusable
  The Green Mile, written and directed by Frank Darabont, from the novel by Stephen King
• Memphis jury finds that a conspiracy led to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
• Sri Lankan government cuts funding for vital drugs in public hospitals
• The Jamie Bulger killing: European Court rules that two 11-year-olds tried as adults did not receive fair trial
• Token compensation for some victims of forced labour under the Nazis

18 December 1999

• Canada's political elite supports law to impede Quebec secession
• Election violence escalates as polling date nears in Sri Lanka
• An American artist
  Paul Cadmus dies at 94
• Rightwing could form government in Chile after presidential election
• Russia on the eve of the Duma elections
• Signs of political instability as South Korean government prepares for next year's election
• Some interesting films on US television, December 18-24
• Two Cuban detainees surrender in Louisiana jail standoff
• US indicts Taiwanese-American target of nuclear espionage furor
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

20 December 1999

• Readers comment on Elian Gonzalez and workers' rights in the US
• Rifts emerge in ruling party as Taiwan's presidential election heats up
• A scientific milestone
  Scientists unravel genetic code for human chromosome 22
• Strikes and protests signal a confrontation after the Sri Lankan elections

21 December 1999

• "Reform" of US tax agency has led to decline in audits of the wealthy
• Sri Lankan President Kumaratunga narrowly escapes assassination by suicide bomber
• Sri Lankan election leaves Tamil parties in complete disarray
• The end of the dole "as we know it" in Australia
• UNP sniffs a possible win in the Sri Lanka presidential election
• Venezuela: Pervasive poverty compounds human disaster from floods and mudslides
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

22 December 1999

• Defection of Conservative MP spotlights rightward lurch of Britain's Labour government
• Do nostalgia and serious purpose mix?
  Liberty Heights, written and directed by Barry Levinson
• Behind Clinton's boycott
  Panama Canal handover no end to US sway
• Portuguese colonial rule over Macau ends after 442 years
• Pro-government forces make gains in elections to Russian Duma
• Welfare cuts hit co-operative jobs in Sri Lanka

23 December 1999

• Artists organise against artistic censorship in Berlin
• Chilean Socialist Party candidate backtracks on abortion policy
• David Walsh names his favorite films of the year and the decade
• Former IMF deputy to stand in Côte d'Ivoire presidential elections
• Kumaratunga's narrow election win sets stage for further instability in Sri Lanka
• Letters to the World Socialist Web Site
• Sri Lankan unions divide health workers over the color of uniforms
• Trial in Amadou Diallo killing is moved out of New York City
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

24 December 1999

• An interview with victimised Australian teacher
  "Freedom of speech must be defended"
• American historian C. Vann Woodward dies: an interview with Civil War historian James McPherson on Woodward's contribution
• Australian Labor helps deliver a "tax jackpot for investors"
• Chilean teachers send message of support to victimised Australian teacher
• Elderly patients being left to die in British hospitals
• Korean Air jumbo jet crashes near London
• Some interesting films on US television, December 25-31
• Striking Karachi newspaper workers appeal for support
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 December 1999

• Australian unions call strikes as BHP shifts to individual contracts
• Europe ravaged by record storms—more than 100 dead
• Fierce fighting around key northern military base in Sri Lanka
• National Gallery of Australia cancels Sensation exhibition
• Student loans report aimed at holding together Scottish coalition government
• Study finds "indisputable" link between BSE/"Mad Cow Disease" and CJD in humans
• Surveys show significant growth in British Internet use
• The rehabilitation of Gustav Gründgens
  Gustav Gründgens —A German Career: an exhibition at the Berlin Staatsbibliothek

30 December 1999

• Arrests made in India over screening of film on the Manjolai massacre
• Christmas Eve coup in Côte D'Ivoire
• Favorite artists, works and performers of the twentieth century: a survey of WSWS contributors
• Indian Airlines hijacking highlights political tensions on the Indian subcontinent
• New Argentine government shoots down protesting workers
• Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl faces criminal investigation
  What lies behind the German Christian Democrats' financial scandal?

31 December 1999

• Britain's Labour government agrees to finance controversial Turkish Ilisu dam project
• Country music singer Hank Snow dead at 85
• Diplomatic scramble by Japan, US to open up North Korea
• Floods devastate central Vietnam
• Mergers lead to thousands of job cuts in Britain's utility companies
• Mistaken identity
  The Talented Mr. Ripley, written and directed by Anthony Minghella, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith
• OSCE report paints devastating picture of conditions in Kosovo
• Overloaded ferry sinks in the Philippines killing at least 42 people
• Report cites continued global warming trend in 1999
• Six Sri Lankans held for 19 months without trial plan to go on hunger strike