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Archive: January 2000

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

• El candidato del Partido Socialista ha derrotado por poco al anterior oficial de Pinochet en las elecciones presidenciales de Chile

5 January 2000

• After the airline hijack ends, India steps up its verbal attacks on Pakistan
• Britain's "debt relief" and what it means for the world's poor
• British government does not prosecute Nazi war criminal
• El marxismo y los sindicatos obreros
• Port worker's wife killed on New Zealand picket line
• Seven drug deaths in Scotland over Christmas
• Six new extra-solar planets discovered using new technique
• Striking visions of the First World War
  CRW Nevinson: The Twentieth Century
• US and Britain combine to maintain crippling sanctions on Iraq
• WSWS interviews Wim Wenders: director of Buena Vista Social Club
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 January 2000

• A brief tribute to Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
• A lesson in the failure of syndicalism
  Australian union leader Norm Gallagher dies at 67
• Canadian business decries wave of foreign takeovers
• Company filming documentary on Mumia Abu-Jamal harassed by Philadelphia authorities
• Germany: Social Democratic government proposes massive tax breaks for big business
• Judge denies bail to jailed US scientist Wen Ho Lee
• The crisis of the German Social Democratic Party
• Worker's death exposes the dirty secrets of Japan's nuclear industry

7 January 2000

• Child labor and child slaves
• Fifty truckloads of jellyfish reveal a jittery political atmosphere in the Philippines
• As government encourages Sinhala chauvinism
  Leading Tamil politician assassinated in Sri Lankan capital
• Love, death & angst in California's San Fernando Valley
  Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Mental health law and the US judicial system
  Disturbing questions raised by the Nathaniel Abraham case
• On the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy
• US hails new ruling coalition
  Tudjman's ultra-nationalist party defeated in Croatian elections
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa

8 January 2000

• Another Kosovo lie exposed: NATO used doctored video to justify bombing of passenger train
• Obituary: Albert Tucker (1914-1999)
  Artist of a turbulent epoch dies
• Australian Treasurer advocates lower wages in rural areas
• But here on earth ...
  Man on the Moon, directed by Milos Forman, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
• Mercy Hospital to close on Detroit's east side
• The transfer of power in Moscow: what it means for Russia's political trajectory
• Train drivers boycott crash line in aftermath of Norway rail disaster
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

10 January 2000

• Wim Wenders talks with WSWS:
  "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain"
• 1999 saw near-record job cuts in the US
• Fighting in the Malukus heightens tensions across Indonesia and within the Wahid cabinet

11 January 2000

• Child psychiatrist discusses Supreme Court manslaughter trial of young boy in Australia
• Insightful, engaging modern dance
  Doug Varone and Dancers at the Joyce Theater, New York City
• Iranian students' death sentences confirmed
• Papua New Guinea budget targets public sector workers
• Rail companies could get immunity from prosecution following Paddington train crash
• Recent letters from WSWS readers
• The socialist standpoint on the 1995 Quebec referendum on secession
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• For working class unity against Chretien and Bouchard
  Workers should oppose both federalist and separatist camps in Canada's constitutional dispute

12 January 2000

• Hundreds of Tamils rounded up in security dragnet of Sri Lankan capital
• Poverty and hunger worsen under US welfare reform
• Primary school principal commits suicide in Australian country town
• The Elian Gonzalez affair—a case study in hypocrisy
• The German Green party, and what is left of them
• Two Tamil political prisoners killed as Sri Lankan prison guards crush protests

13 January 2000

• Ambitious, deeply flawed
  Cradle Will Rock, written and directed by Tim Robbins.
• Australian signalling engineer warns of further rail disasters
• Both parties applaud reappointment of Greenspan to head US Federal Reserve
• Economic crisis forces Ecuador to abandon its own currency
• Florida legislature approves bill to speed executions
• Pinochet can go free, says Britain's Home Secretary
• Protesters accuse Sri Lankan security forces of murdering a young Tamil woman
• WSWS readers comment on recent arts reviews
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

14 January 2000

• A reminder of how we all begin
  The Small Poppies Company B, Belvoir Street, Sydney Until February 20
• AOL buyout of Time Warner: merger frenzy sweeping corporate America
• Corruption and China policy dominate Taiwan presidential campaign
• Michigan judge sentences 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham to juvenile facility
• Anti-Castro rightists rally support in US Congress and the courts
  Sordid maneuvers over six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez
• US Supreme Court strips state workers of protection against age discrimination

15 January 2000

• Alcoa Australia admits cancer dangers
• Execution of PKK leader Ocalan postponed
• Five Malaysian opposition figures arrested in government crackdown
• Germany: PDS changes attitude in relation to military interventions
• Letters to the WSWS
• NATO accused of human rights violations in Kosovo War
• Risk of Mad Cow Disease growing throughout Europe
• Seattle and beyond: disarming the New World Order
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

17 January 2000

• Konrad Kalejs given refuge again
  Australia a "safe haven" for Nazi war criminals
• Flu outbreak reveals crisis in Britain's hospitals
• Libyan arms scandal shows widening rift between Europe and US
• The political and historical issues in Russia's assault on Chechnya

18 January 2000

• Examining physician suggests British home secretary misled Parliament in bid to release Pinochet
• New York state makes settlement offer to Attica inmates
• On the threshold of the twenty-first century
• Report predicts four in every ten Britons will develop cancer
• A symptom of profound political crisis
  Sri Lankan government alleges opposition, military and business involvement in plot to kill the president
• Teachers and students fight to save a technical college in Sydney
• The "Hurricane" Carter story on film: What's there, and what's not
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

19 January 2000

• Britain: Report calls for "unwanted" housing to be demolished
• New report documents growing social inequality in the US
• Socialist Party candidate narrowly defeats ex-Pinochet official in Chilean presidential poll
• Strangeness and failure: Gish Jen's Who's Irish?
• Two Nassau County, New York jail guards plead guilty in fatal beating of inmate
• Two cases reveal wretched conditions for immigrant laborers in New York City
• US warns against Indonesian military coup

20 January 2000

• Australia: Victorian Labor government reneges on its education promises
• Human rights groups attack decision to keep medical evidence secret
  Britain poised to release Chilean ex-dictator Pinochet
• French filmmaker Robert Bresson (1901-1999)
  "When one is in prison, the most important thing is the door"
• Letters on the Elian Gonzalez controversy
• Two Samoan ministers go to trial for assassinating a fellow cabinet member
• US welfare reform: behind the hype
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

21 January 2000

• A political balance sheet of the Yeltsin era
• Resentment mounts against UN administration in East Timor
• Safety concerns raised after deaths of three US students in fire at Seton Hall University
• Continuing fallout from financial crisis
  Thai government survives no-confidence motion
• US steps up pressure on Sudanese government
• Union dock workers clash with police at South Carolina port

22 January 2000

• Basque separatist ETA blamed for explosions in Madrid
• British government to implement reform of Royal Ulster Constabulary
• Censorship, democracy and the state of contemporary art
  A conversation with artist Jef Bourgeau
• Glaxo Wellcome-SmithKline Beecham merger creates world's largest drug company
• Letters from WSWS readers
• Michigan prosecutors bring new charges against 14-year-old Nathaniel Abraham
• The class divide in America and the 2000 presidential campaign
• Two homeless men freeze to death in New York City
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

24 January 2000

• Curtis Mayfield dies:
  A modest man of great musical talent and sensitivity
• Getting away with corporate murder
  Blood in the Bank: Social and Legal Aspects of Death at Work by Gary Slapper
• How the White House and the media package government propaganda as entertainment
• Japan makes overtures to the military junta in Burma
• Paranoid schizophrenic executed in Texas

25 January 2000

• Blair government presses ahead with attack on right to jury trial in England and Wales
• Bosnia fours years after the Dayton Accord: US and Europe preside over ethnic partition and corruption
• Contaminated aviation fuel grounds 5,000 planes in Australia
• Human rights groups to mount legal challenge to Pinochet's release by British Home Secretary
• Readers comment on WSWS coverage of the US 2000 presidential campaign
• Thousands of jobs to go in European banking
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

26 January 2000

• 50,000 protest Confederate flag in South Carolina: political issues in the fight for democratic rights
• Australian trade unions reject national strike against BHP
• Clinton panel rejects call for mandatory reporting of hospital errors
• Concerns in G7 over "imbalances" in world economy
• Divisions in British government over arms to Zimbabwe
• Finance scandal engulfs German Christian Democrats
• New evidence supports allegations of RUC collusion in murder of Irish lawyer
• The crisis of the German CDU and its consequences

27 January 2000

• A reply to a reader on the role of Stalinism in the former Yugoslavia
• A worried face is not enough
  Girl, Interrupted
• Anti-gay hysteria greets Blair's proposal to repeal Section 28
• Behind the dispute over individual contracts
  BHP prepares new global strategy at its Australian iron ore mines
• Letters to the WSWS
• London High Court considers moves to release Pinochet
• The new year brings thousands of new job cuts in the US
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

28 January 2000

• Coca-Cola to eliminate 6,000 jobs in worldwide restructuring
• Iowa caucuses mark official start of US presidential nomination process
• Job prospects bleak in Australia as government and business continue to downsize
• One hundred frame-ups admitted in widening Los Angeles police scandal
• Presidential elections in Croatia go to second round
• Soft Fruit: A missed opportunity

29 January 2000

• A piece which fails to convince in any respect
  The Brecht File, a new play at the Berliner Ensemble
• Australia's MRI "scandal" diverts attention from government restrictions on medical diagnosis
• East Timor atrocities report threatens to deepen rift in Indonesian government
• Libel case focuses on collusion between security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries in northern Ireland
• Blair's 1,000 days in office
  New Labour pledges to continue attack on public services
• Scottish deal on university tuition fees divides UK students
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

31 January 2000

• Chinese miners trapped underground
  Beijing exploits appalling safety record to shut mines
• Clinton's State of the Union address: an exercise in deceit and self-delusion
• Spanish daily reveals secret correspondence in Pinochet extradition case
• The State of the Union address: Where was the US Supreme Court?
• US dollar to be official currency in East Timor

4 September 2008

• Films on US television: capsule reviews from the WSWS