Archive: February 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 January 2000
1 February 2000
- Angela's Ashes —too much of a chocolate box depiction
- British High Court rejects challenge to stop Pinochet's release
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"I wish I had done what she did"
Interviews with Australian teachers about Geraldine Rawson's Supreme Court challenge - On film reviews by David Walsh
- Sword attack on Cheltenham politicians: a product of social tensions in Britain
- Thousands of officials punished in China's anti-corruption purge
- Two million incarcerated in the US
- Ultra-rightist Haider close to entering Austrian government
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 February 2000
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"Witness": An important chapter in US history
New York photo exhibit on lynchings -
Art and swinishness considered, weakly
Sweet and Lowdown, written and directed by Woody Allen - Department of Health issues guidelines to British parents on how to smack their children
- Illinois governor calls temporary halt to executions
- Political lessons of the New York transit workers' contract struggle
- Report on East Timor atrocities sets stage for political confrontation in Indonesia
- Suicide at Detroit casino—the human cost of legalized gambling
- The coup in Ecuador: a grim warning
- UK prison deemed guilty of "institutional neglect" in treatment of asylum-seekers
- US admits radiation exposure killed nuclear weapons workers
3 February 2000
- Britain's religious right campaigns to defend anti-gay "Section 28" legislation
- Reports to New Zealand Labour government contain a picture of social devastation
- Sydney's homeless to be removed for Olympics
- Toronto police target "anti-cop" politicians
- US intervenes to shape settlement in Congo
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
4 February 2000
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ACTU holds talks with BHP
Australian unions prepare to impose company demands on Pilbara workers -
One year since Dearborn, Michigan explosion
New revelations expose company-union complicity in fatal blast at US Ford plant
"They decided to put profits over safety" - OECD study highlights widespread and persistent poverty in Europe and America
- Russian President Putin introduces widespread state monitoring of the Internet
- The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: US court agrees to consider defense motion charging bias
- UAW officials take an auto worker for a ride
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As Clinton prepares to visit subcontinent
US delivers a thinly disguised ultimatum to Pakistan
5 February 2000
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NSW government wants to "eliminate restrictions"
Australian teachers continue their fight against new award - Britain: Government resignation highlights gulf between New Labour and working people
- Guards, police charged with abuse of prisoners at New York area jails
- Letters to the WSWS
- New Hampshire primary vote shakes up US presidential campaign
- Sacked Australian textile workers picket for $11 million in unpaid entitlements
- The Austrian ultra-rightist Haider and Europe
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 February 2000
- London Appeal Court ruling could clear way for Pinochet's return to Chile
- Mayor Giuliani's budget targets New York City teachers, public employees
- Ontario law aims to drive poor off the streets
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Australia:
Police raids on ultra-right party set dangerous precedent
8 February 2000
- Arbitrary detention of schoolchildren provokes a student boycott throughout northern Sri Lanka
- Britain: government reports, leaks to media promote military build-up
- El Caso de Amadou Diallo: Las Raíces Socio-políticas de la Violencia Policíaca
- European Union: restrictive asylum policy costs lives
- La Exoneración de los Policías de Nueva York: el Tribunal Sancionan el Asesinato de Amadou Diallo
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My century?
A review of Günter Grass' latest novel, Mein Jahrhundert (My Century) - Philippines president buys a little time by ending Cha Cha reforms and reshuffling cabinet
- Technical workers denounce union officials for rejecting strike action against Boeing
- US presidential campaign: George W. Bush speaks at racist university
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 February 2000
- Afghan hijacking in fourth day at London's Stansted airport
- British High Court ruling opens way for deportation of over 6,000 Kurdish asylum-seekers
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The CARE-OSCE connection in Kosovo
New information on the case of two jailed Australian aid workers - President Mbeki threatens South African workers
- Sri Lanka's 52nd Independence Day: a pall of gloom hangs over the ruling elites
- Trial begins in New York police killing of Amadou Diallo
- University of Michigan study shows decline in net wealth for poor, minorities in the US
10 February 2000
- Boeing technical workers strike US aerospace giant
- British Appeal Court grants judicial review, delaying release of Pinochet
- Labor Party invokes emergency measures against Australian electricity workers
- Letter about The Green Mile
- Police suppress Mexican University strike
- Reader comments on Ford Rouge explosion
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Some things are clearer than others
Topsy-Turvy, written and directed by Mike Leigh -
A strange standoff in Jakarta:
Top Indonesian general continues to reject presidential calls for his resignation - Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
11 February 2000
- After the hijacking: British government, media demand deportation of Afghanis
- Internet vandals threaten access and expression on the World Wide Web
- Japan slides back into recession
- Officially launching her Senate campaign, Hillary Clinton submits her right-wing "New Democrat" credentials
- Spain: racist violence injures 50 in Almeria
- The banning and unbanning in Australia of the new French film Romance
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Action against dissidents in airline contract struggle
US court orders seizure of Northwest flight attendants' home computers - US executions continue at record pace despite revelations of wrongful convictions
12 February 2000
- A scare on US bond markets
- An exchange of letters on the New York City transit workers' contract struggle
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Britain's Vodafone swallows Germany's Mannesmann
Telecom take-over has far reaching social consequences - Clinton's final budget calls for military buildup, fiscal austerity
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India:
Hindu chauvinists block filming of Deepa Mehta's Water -
Hysteria never helped anyone
Any Given Sunday, directed by Oliver Stone - Israel admits stockpiling nuclear weapons
- Patients and health care advocates in Michigan protest Medicaid cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 February 2000
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Malaysia:
Anwar's resumed trial produces further evidence of a political frame-up - Human Rights Watch says NATO killed over 500 civilians in air war against Yugoslavia
- Letters to the WSWS
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Toronto police suspend campaign targeting "anti-cop" politicians
Threat to democratic rights remains
15 February 2000
- Australian government secures new East Timor oil treaty
- California's "three-strikes" law boosts prison population-two cases in point
- Cyanide spill "a catastrophe of European dimensions"
- Deepa Mehta speaks out against Hindu extremist campaign to stop her film
- New York City transit workers ratify contract
- Sri Lankan security forces continue witchhunt against Tamils
- Sunday Times alleges Britain's MI6 played role in Gadhaffi assassination attempt
16 February 2000
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A man of insight and courage
Giordano Bruno, philosopher and scientist, burnt at the stake 400 years ago - Government crackdown against the Hezbollah in Turkey
- Moroccan immigrant workers strike in southern Spain
- Refugees resort to hunger strike in remote Australian prison camp
- Struggle of Russian workers for control of Vyborg Cellulose Combine
- Suspension of Northern Ireland Assembly reveals undemocratic nature of "peace process"
- The Bruehl train accident—German rail safety on the decline
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 February 2000
- Academy Award nominations: a large dose of philistinism, some hopeful signs
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A symptom of political instability
Indonesian president's backflip over the fate of General Wiranto - Israeli reprisals hit Lebanese civilians
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Featured from Monday
Nick Beams replies to Michel Chossudovsky's "Seattle and beyond: disarming the New World Order" - Reform Party in US lines up behind ultra-rightist Patrick Buchanan
- Sacked South African Volkswagen workers appeal for international support
- Thousands demonstrate in Berlin in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- US occupation force evacuates Haiti, leaving a country in ruins
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
18 February 2000
- Australian banks return record profits and axe thousands of jobs
- Ford Europe unveils restructuring strategy
- Glasgow pushes the privatisation of schools and housing
- Leaked medical evidence aimed at thwarting Pinochet's extradition
- Montreal Internet service provider raided by FBI
- Thai hospital shootout punctures government's democratic pretensions
- The 35-hour workweek in France: how a progressive idea was distorted beyond recognition
19 February 2000
- Amnesty International calls for new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal
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A letter from Madras
Indian film societies federation protests attacks on artistic freedom and democratic rights - Once again, on the rush to judgment in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990
- Public outcry in Australia over jailed Aboriginal boy's suicide
- The Alaska Airlines crash: signs point to a wider crisis in air safety
- True to form: Clinton rejects moratorium on death penalty
- US stocks fall sharply after Greenspan warning
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 February 2000
- Defeat of Indian power strike opens door for privatisations
- Eyewitness account of Yugoslavia after NATO bombardment: "People are preoccupied with day-to-day survival"
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Marxist internationalism vs. the perspective of radical protest
A reply to Professor Chossudovsky's critique of globalization - Spanish left agrees to electoral pact
22 February 2000
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Cops take stand to defend shooting of immigrant worker
Amadou Diallo murder trial drawing to a close - Australian prime minister under siege
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Quite obedient really
The Cider House Rules, directed by Lasse Hallström, screenplay by John Irving, based on the novel by Irving -
The impact of social polarization
Study shows higher cardiac death rates in major US cities, rural South - The European Union's sanctions against Austria
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Zimbabwe: Referendum defeat for Mugabe shakes Zanu-PF government
23 February 2000
- Citizen group campaign throws South Korean elections into chaos
- Clinton pushes $1.6 billion military plan for Colombia
- European Union annual report: signs of growing racism and xenophobia
- Ford announces 1,500 job losses at its biggest UK plant
- Joerg Haider's Canadian friends
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Marxist internationalism vs. the perspective of radical protest
A reply to Professor Chossudovsky's critique of globalization - TV documentary presents case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
24 February 2000
- Colonial-era laws invoked to gag government officials in Sri Lanka
- NATO troops clash with Kosovan Serbs and Albanian protesters in Mitrovica
- New figures show Australian union membership in free-fall
- Norway intensifies persecution of asylum seekers
- Parliamentary elections in Iran: victory for "reformers" masks social contradictions
- The 50th Berlin film festival: pomp and paucity
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
25 February 2000
- "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?": US television hits bottom, for now
- 250,000 demonstrate in Vienna against new Austrian government
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Prosecutors continue legal vendetta against 14-year-old Michigan boy
April 18 trial set for Nathaniel Abraham on new assault charges - Growing concern over Internet privacy
- Labour Party rigs candidate selection process for London mayor
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Marxist internationalism vs. the perspective of radical protest
A reply to Professor Chossudovsky's critique of globalization - UN aid coordinator for Iraq resigns in protest at "human tragedy" of sanctions
26 February 2000
- Britain's Police Federation forces shutdown of Internet web site
- Bush debacle in Michigan primary election deepens crisis in Republican Party
- Report documents widespread abuse in British children's homes
- Sri Lankan budget: increased defence spending and further IMF restructuring
- Texas executes 62-year-old great grandmother Betty Lou Beets
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Berlin film festival, part 2
The tension between cinematic vision and life itself
The Million Dollar Hotel, directed by Wim Wenders - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 February 2000
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Acquittal of New York City police: court sanctions murder of Amadou Diallo
How the trial was rigged - Archaeological find opens the pages of Ancient Greek history
- Religious conflicts in Nigeria
- The Amadou Diallo case: The social and political roots of police violence
- World Socialist Web Site issues appeal: Oppose Hindu extremist attacks on Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
29 February 2000
- Bangladesh government introduces harsh new security laws
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How war has shattered the life of a Sri Lankan village
Pura Handa Kaluwara (Death on a Full Moon Day), written and directed by Prasanna Vithanage - La segunda bomba de ETA mata a un líder del partido socialista en España
- Letters on the Amadou Diallo verdict
- Other letters from WSWS readers
- The rehabilitation of Stalin—an ideological cornerstone of the new Kremlin politics
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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