Archive: March 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.
1 March 2000
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An interview with Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lankan filmmaker
"The struggle of the common man for self-dignity is very profound" - African floods: Western governments' indifference to plight of Mozambique
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Berlin film festival:
An interview with the director of Zoe, Maren-Kea Freese - Galileo's Daughter: An important contribution to the history of science
- Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters arrested in Washington anti-death penalty protest
- New study confirms growing social polarisation in Britain
- Six-year-old Michigan girl shot and killed in classroom
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Berlin film festival, part 3
The successful depiction of a zeitgeist
Zoe, directed by Maren-Kea Freese - Unilever to shed 10 percent of workforce in global restructuring
2 March 2000
- Haider's resignation as leader of Austria's Freedom Party: a tactical manoeuvre
- Hundreds of residents register for class action against lead smelter pollution in Australia
- Lebanese student writes WSWS about recent protests against Israeli bombings
- More letters on the Amadou Diallo verdict
- The US elections and the lessons of the Clinton impeachment crisis
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The John Lennon revelations:
Was there a high-level MI5 agent in the British Workers Revolutionary Party? - What's behind the split in stockmarket values
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
3 March 2000
- Britain refuses asylum to hijacked Afghanis
- Britain's Labour Party celebrates hundredth anniversary amidst gathering storm clouds
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State government takes direct control of Olympics
Financial fiasco brewing in Australia over Sydney Olympic Games -
Five days after the Diallo verdict
New York plainclothes cop kills unarmed Bronx man - Pinochet returns to Chile after Britain halts extradition proceedings
- Promising new insights into early cancer growth
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Berlin Film Festival, part 4
Putting his finger on a wound
Rita's Legends (Die Stille nach dem Schuß) - The German state election in Schleswig-Holstein: business as usual?
- Walker Evans and photography
4 March 2000
- An exchange on socialist planning
- Canada's Liberal government embraces the tax-cutting agenda of big business
- Evidence at Australian rail disaster inquiry reveals chaotic safety system
- Nigeria edges towards civil war
- Reactionary propositions on March 7 California ballot
- US: What the shootings in Flint and Wilkinsburg have in common
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
6 March 2000
- Mr. Death —portrait of a specialist in "humane and dignified" executions
- Pakistani judge gags ousted prime minister on trial on fabricated charges
- Some background to the incarceration of the mentally ill in the US prison system
- The Christian right and the Republican Party: the dirty secret of American politics
7 March 2000
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WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh's remarks to Pontiac meeting on censorship and the arts
"On what basis should a movement in defense of artistic freedom be founded?" - Australian dollar in sharp decline
- Boeing imposes last wage offer on striking engineers
- British Labour government orders private consultants into Yorkshire education authorities
- California: a case study in inequality
- Domino Sugar workers in New York on strike for more than eight months
- One dead, two missing in Virginia auto parts plant explosion
- Pontiac panel discussion on censorship and the arts
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New attempt at censorship
Pontiac, Michigan police cite artist for "obscenity" - Workers Struggles: The Americas
8 March 2000
- Agente de Policía Vestido de Civil Mata a Hombre Desarmado en el Bronx
- Alberta to switch to "flat" income tax
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Berlin Film Festival, part 5
Beyond the shadow of Milosevic
The Punishment, a documentary film by Goran Rebic - East Timor and Australia's oily politics
- El Caso de Amadou Diallo: Las Raíces Socio-políticas de la Violencia Policíaca
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US veto on top IMF post
German nominee forced to withdraw -
Berlin Film Festival
Interview with Goran Rebic, director of The Punishment - Israeli parliament considers bill legalising torture
- La Exoneración de los Policías de Nueva York: el Tribunal Sancionan el Asesinato de Amadou Diallo
- Letters on the Alaska Airlines crash
- Letters on the recent shootings in the US
- Other letters to the WSWS
- Pinochet Regresa a Chile Luego de la Gran Bretaña Ponerle Paro al Proceso de Extradición
- Safety breaches disrupt privatisation of British Nuclear Fuels
9 March 2000
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Australia: The NSW teachers' dispute
Parents, teachers and principals deepen their opposition to education cutbacks - Bitter political feud between the government and opposition in Bangladesh
- British student arrested under Official Secrets Act
- Kurdish nationalists seek supporting role in Turkish state
- Police clampdown on South African VW strikers
- The Abner Louima case: three New York cops guilty in cover-up of torture
- US-OPEC tensions over rising oil prices
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
10 March 2000
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Shock waves in Austrian cultural and media circles
"It is not just that new Austrian government has no idea of art, they hate it"
Sacked publisher Jochen Jung speaks in Berlin - Anatoly Sobchak (1937-2000): leading representative of capitalist "reform" in Russia
- British government to expand use of drugs to control children's behaviour
- Chilean government to implement new anti-bail provisions
- KLA provocations in Mitrovica and southwest Serbia
- Kerosene baths reveal systemic aged care crisis in Australia
- Letters to the WSWS
- New issue of World Socialist Web Site Review now available
11 March 2000
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How the law protects corporate property
Australian businessman Alan Bond walks free from jail - Contest for US presidential nominations ends with March 7 primaries
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Is all of this inevitable?
Five films reviewed - Mazda plans to shed thousands of jobs in Japan
- Protests rock Quebec Youth Summit
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TV documentary exposes devastating toll of sanctions against Iraq
Killing the Children of Iraq—a price worth paying? written and presented by John Pilger - Why bad news for workers is good news for Wall Street
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
13 March 2000
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Berlin Film Festival, part 6
Art and poverty
Russia's Wonder Children, directed by Irene Langemann - Gene therapy trials shut down at University of Pennsylvania following patient death
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Berlin Film Festival
Interview with Irene Langemann, director of Russia's Wonder Children - Norwegian-sponsored peace initiative in Sri Lanka meets with sceptical reception
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The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 1 of a series
14 March 2000
- British rescue worker tells of missed opportunity to aid Mozambique
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Report from a Sri Lankan fishing village—Part One
Fisherman killed in collision with Sri Lankan naval boat - Huge security buildup for Sydney Olympics
- Mozambique flood disaster shows legacy of colonial oppression
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Northwest Airlines fires flight attendants accused of organizing job action
"The company loves to use these intimidation tactics" -
After the WTO protests in Seattle
Police build up anti-riot forces in US cities -
The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 2 of a series - Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 March 2000
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Report from a Sri Lankan fishing village—Part Two
A big issue is clean drinking water -
Berlin Film Festival, part 7
An onlooker in a world falling apart
Paths In The Night ( Wege in die Nacht), directed by Andreas Kleinert - Britain's Observer newspaper suggests Russian secret service involvement in Moscow bombings
- El Caso Abner Louima: Tres Policías Neoyorquinos Culpables de Encubrir Tortura
- Europe and America compete for British missile contract
- Letter from a reader on Lenin and globalisation
- Letters to the WSWS
- Nick Beams replies to a reader on Lenin and globalisation
- Norwegian Labour Party, Conservatives and Progress Party oust Bondevik Government
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The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 3 of a series
16 March 2000
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A "writer" in name only
Wonder Boys, directed by Curtis Hanson, screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the novel by Michael Chabon -
Report from a Sri Lankan fishing village—Part Three
A long history of state intimidation and repression - A new round of shootings in the US
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British documentary substantiates US-KLA collusion in provoking war with Serbia
Related Sunday Times article alleges CIA role - Hindu extremists stop publication of Indian history volumes
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The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 4 of a series - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
17 March 2000
- A letter on the Los Angeles Police Department scandal
- An exchange on the privatisation of public utilities
- An inside look at the US presidential campaign: Gore's town meeting in Detroit
- British doctors fear mother has passed human BSE disease to baby
- Deep divisions in ruling circles as Taiwan goes to the polls
- Right-wing victory in Spanish general election
- Sharif lawyer killed as Pakistani junta cracks down on opposition
- The history of the former Gestapo concentration camp "Oderblick" in Schwetig/Swiecko
- The report of former forced-labor prisoner Nicholas Livkovsky
- Tribune and Times-Mirror combine: US media monopolies grow larger
- Victoria de la derecha en las elecciones generales españolas
18 March 2000
- IMF row reveals US-German tensions
- Israel/Palestine talks resume
- Pinochet's return fuels political conflicts in Chile
- Retorno de Pinochet desata conflictos políticos en Chile
- The Deutsche Bank/Dresdner Bank merger: a struggle for worldwide market domination
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The filmmakers can't help themselves
Holy Smoke, directed by Jane Campion, written by Jane and Anna Campion - US government report reveals growing numbers of children in adult prisons
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
20 March 2000
- 48-year-old Ohio mother charged for photographing her daughter
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A vital and challenging exhibition
Viva la Vida —Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 29 January-30 April - Australia's BHP restructures in a bid to appease the markets
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Political issues unresolved in the wake of the Mexico student strike
By Gerardo Nebbia 20 March 2000 - World Water Commission recommends privatisation of water supplies
21 March 2000
- Boeing engineers ratify contract
- British Nuclear Fuels accused of deliberately falsifying safety checks
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Author of The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World dies
G.E.M. de Ste Croix: A lifelong empathy with the oppressed - Massive rise in university tuition fees proposed for England and Wales
- Papua New Guinea ministers sacked as Australia applies pressure for economic restructuring
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Simplifying matters
Erin Brockovich, directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Susannah Grant - Teamsters suspend negotiating committee member for opposing concessions to Northwest Airlines
- US government honors one Latin American torturer and frees another
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 March 2000
- Britain's Sunday Times records spectacular increase in wealth
- France's education workers strike against Socialist Party government policies
- Reader comments on Nick Beams' "Marxist internationalism vs. the perspective of radical protest"
- Taiwan election result produces political volatility at home and abroad
- The "Sanitation" controversy at New York's Whitney Museum: freedom of expression under attack
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The tawdry politics of Tibetan Buddhism
The flight of the Karmapa Lama from Tibet - The killing of Patrick Dorismond: New York police violence escalates in wake of Diallo verdict
- US interest rate rise to fuel economic policy conflicts
23 March 2000
- Australian government's crisis deepens as markets demand full privatisation of Telstra
- Clinton visit to the Indian subcontinent sets a new strategic orientation
- German capitalism in transition: globalization and the erosion of "Germany Incorporated"
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New York denies asthma treatment to homeless children
Federal class action lawsuit filed - Suppressed report raises question of US role in Rwandan civil war
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Science, art or carnival sideshow?
The "Human Body Worlds" exhibit in Cologne - Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
24 March 2000
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Then and now
1900: Art at the Crossroads at the Royal Academy, London - Executions carried out in Virginia, Missouri and Oklahoma
- Former Black Panther leader will fight extradition on murder charge
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Verdict in David Irving case due in two weeks
Libel suit brought by apologist for Nazi role in Holocaust concludes in London - Mental illness and the American dream: Part 1
- Sri Lankan police order female "LTTE suspect" to strip publicly at gunpoint
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Strike deadline approaches at US Airways
Airline threatens to shut down operations -
Under pressure from Australian government
UN censors human rights findings
25 March 2000
- Britain: libel verdict vs. exposé of Bosnia War propaganda bankrupts independent journal
- Conference organizers direct Mumia Abu-Jamal defense campaign to Democratic Party
- El Escándalo Policíaco de Los Angeles y sus Raíces Sociales
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El Escándalo Policíaco de Los Ángeles y sus Raíces Sociales
Primera Parte : Tercera Parte : Parte Final -
El Escándalo Policíaco de Los Ángeles y sus Raíces Sociales
Segunda Parte : Tercera Parte : Parte Final -
El Escándalo de la Policía de Los Ángeles y sus Raíces Sociales
Primera Parte : Segunda Parte : Parte Final - Indian budget contains huge increase in military spending
- Letters to the WSWS
- Mental illness and the American Dream: Part 2
- Privatisation of Australian electricity supplies leads to shortages and blackouts
- The West courts Russia's Putin
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 March 2000
- Deepa Mehta takes legal action in Indian court to defend film
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Australia:
Students, teachers and residents protest against suspension of high school principal -
US Airways and union reach agreement
Flight attendants speak on issues - US pressure on OPEC meeting to increase oil production
28 March 2000
- An exchange with Frank Brenner and other letters on "Mental illness and the American dream"
- Australia: Alarming death rate among recently released female prisoners
- Cyanide spill endangers villagers in Papua New Guinea
- This year's Academy Awards ceremony: Hollywood in full view
- Toll of killings by Ugandan cult exceeds 400
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 March 2000
- Abuse in the California prison system
- An Australian tragedy: mother charged over son's death at poker machine venue
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Treading in Haider's footsteps
Germany's CDU veers to the right as state elections approach - Hostage siege in Baltimore--another American nightmare
- Nick Beams replies to a reader's question about the law of the falling rate of profit
- Sri Lanka: Inquests fail to charge jailers responsible for the killing of two Tamil detainees
30 March 2000
- McVeigh interview sheds light on the social roots of the Oklahoma City bombing
- Phillips Petroleum plant explosion: the latest in a series of deadly accidents at Houston facility
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Music Review: The Melody At Night, With You by Keith Jarrett (ECM 1675)
Piano variations from the American songbook - Putin's election as president signals authoritarian turn in Russia
- Ulster Unionist leader Trimble narrowly defeats leadership challenge
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
31 March 2000
- An interview with Radu Mihaileanu, the director of Train of Life: "We have to learn to articulate these deep emotions"
- Australian bank merger signals a new round of job cuts and branch closures
- British Labour government to enforce police access to email encryption
- Class justice in New York: Why the DA failed to aggressively prosecute the cops who killed Diallo
- Letters to the WSWS
- NATO admits to use of radioactive munitions in Yugoslavia
- New York's Mayor Giuliani and the Brooklyn Museum reach a settlement
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