Archive: April 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 April 2000
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50,000 jobs in Britain threatened by BMW's Rover sell-off
Anti-German campaign by union leaders blocks united action against BMW management - Central banker points to US deficit worries
- Family of British casual worker killed on job presses for corporate manslaughter charges
- Flight attendants union granted major concessions to avoid US Airways strike
- Sri Lankan unions and government prepare witch-hunt against "saboteurs" and "inefficient" workers
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The "Jarmusch touch"
Ghost Dog, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch - US Vice President Gore bows to Cuban rightists in Elian Gonzalez case
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
3 April 2000
- Crisis deepens over British nuclear reprocessing plant
- Leaked CIA report says 50,000 sold into slavery in US every year
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The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi
Part 1: The Record - The lasting significance of The Trojan Women
- Why are the Thai authorities so sensitive about Anna and the King?
4 April 2000
- British Internet libel case threatens free speech internationally
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Canada's Reform Party reborn as the Canadian Alliance
Makeover aimed at securing big business support - Letter from an Australian nursing home worker
- Office equipment giant Xerox cuts 5,200 jobs
- Oil producers denounce US bullying
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The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi
Part 2: The Cover-up - Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 April 2000
- Democratic Party leader assumes office as president of Senegal
- Filmmakers and artists protest the attack on director Deepa Mehta
- Growing crisis of affordable housing for the poor in the US
- Republicans, Clinton White House back funding for US military intervention in Colombia
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Stalin's Neo-NEP to be published in German
New volume of Vadim Rogovin's study of opposition to Stalinism in the USSR presented at Leipzig Book Fair - Tamil school student assaulted on Sri Lankan train by racist gang
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The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi
Part 3: History, Philosophy and Mythology - What happened to Bill Bradley? The rise and fall of a US presidential candidate
6 April 2000
- Australian building unions and their phoney 36-hour week campaign
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50,000 march in Birmingham against BMW sell-off of Rover
British union officials use anti-German chauvinism to divert struggle over auto jobs - From Obuchi to Mori: a carefully managed transition in Japan
- Los Angeles janitors strike
- Nathaniel Abraham's Michigan rehabilitation center under investigation for abuse
- Protests against the attack on Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
7 April 2000
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Mailed fist behind a velvet glove
Australian government prepares to abolish social security system -
A decision to suit the military junta:
Former Pakistan prime minister sentenced to life imprisonment - Inquiry into "Bloody Sunday" opens in Northern Ireland
- Letters to the WSWS on the Elian Gonzalez case
- More protests against the attack on Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- Provocative raid into Serbia leads to clash between US troops and civilians
- Rubin "Hurricane" Carter supports campaign for US political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal
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Clarifying a confused debate
The legacy of Dmitri Shostakovich
8 April 2000
- An exchange on G. E. M de Ste. Croix, historian of Ancient Greek society
- Britain: Racist attacks follow in wake of anti-immigrant press campaign
- Los Angeles janitors strike widens
- New US aggression and machinations in the Persian Gulf
- Norwegian train crash forces evacuation of town
- Sri Lankan prisoners of war undertake hunger strike for release
- Thousands protest police violence in New York City
- Two days after antitrust ruling, White House, Congress hail Microsoft billionaire
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 April 2000
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Backbench revolt over mandatory sentencing
Australian government in deep political crisis - Blair's musings on patriotism: old wine in new bottles
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Filmmaker speaks with the WSWS
Hindu extremist campaign forces director Deepa Mehta to suspend filming in India - Letters to the WSWS
- Wall Street and the commercial exploitation of the human genome
11 April 2000
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Big business blasts Canada's Liberal government
Demands "radical" shift to right - Ian Dury (1942-2000): a poet of the spoken word
- New York welfare offices recruit potential strikebreakers
- PASOK scrapes to victory in Greek general election
- Protests against water rate rises sweep Bolivia
- Troops used to break up protests by laid-off Chinese miners
- Union orders Toronto city workers to end strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 April 2000
- Answers to a radical numbskull: once more on the gulf between Marxism and protest politics
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War refugees treated like criminals
Australian government moves to deport Kosovars - Britain: Labour government and Conservative opposition reported for stoking up anti-immigrant prejudices
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A comedy of errors or a planned attack?
CIA disciplines seven officers over NATO's bombing of Chinese embassy - Hitler apologist David Irving loses libel case at London High Court
- Revelations about Echelon spy network intensify US-European tensions
- Tensions grow between Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF government and MDC opposition
13 April 2000
- Elian Gonzalez case yields debacle for Cuban rightists
- Filmmaker Deepa Mehta replies to the Times of India: "I am determined to make the film"
- Meeting on Iraq sanctions describes horrors inflicted by US and allies
- Merger of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank fails
- Poverty, homelessness and the London Mayoral elections
- Sell-off of high-tech stocks reveals fragility of US financial boom
- South Korean poll dominated by a disgruntled and alienated electorate
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Australia:
Union leaders prepare to betray teachers' fight against new award
14 April 2000
- Anticommunism, chauvinism and beating the drums for war: the US trade union bureaucracy shows its colors
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Australian government's deal on mandatory sentencing
Hypocrisy across the board -
Behind IMF optimism on growth
Major imbalances in world economy - Measure permitting second term for Turkish president fails in parliament
- The hue and cry in Germany over Hans Haacke's artwork Der Bevölkerung (The People)
- Two weeks of protests in Tunisia
- US government retreats before rightists in Elian Gonzalez case
- Union officials, Democrats push for end to Los Angeles janitors strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
15 April 2000
- A letter on "The Case of Martin Heidegger"
- Amnesty International reports widespread human rights abuses in Europe
- An insider's look at the IMF
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The demise of the shunto
Japan's union offensive fails for the third year in a row -
Central issue facing the protesters in Washington:
Lack of political perspective endangers movement against IMF and World Bank - Report from Costa Rica on mass protests against privatization of state-owned utilities
- Robert Lee Tarver put to death in Alabama's electric chair
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Stephen Frears contributes something
High Fidelity, directed by Stephen Frears, based on the novel by Nick Hornby - Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
17 April 2000
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Michelangelo to Matisse—Drawing the figure
A look at 500 years of figure drawing - An ongoing political stalemate in Sri Lanka over a negotiated settlement to the war
- French anti-racist group sets dangerous precedent in court action against Yahoo!
- Wall Street's crisis and the shattering of illusions
18 April 2000
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Cabaret Balkan directed by Goran Paskaljevic
A deeply pessimistic film - Gas attack on Portuguese disco kills seven
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No discussion of five-month-old finance scandal
German Christian Democrats elect new leader - Internet free speech under attack in San Francisco libel suit
- London mayoral elections: Livingstone offers no alternative to Labour Party's pro-business politics
- Measles epidemic continues in Sri Lanka due to poor health and social conditions
- Study finds that US doctors must deceive insurers to provide quality health care
- US psychological warfare experts worked at CNN and NPR during Kosovo War
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 April 2000
- A sharp contrast in US policy: clubs and pepper spray for IMF protesters, cringing before Cuban anticommunists
- Aid withheld as famine grips Horn of Africa
- British Columbia court entertains spurious fraud case against NDP government
- Extensive police crackdown against opposition rally in Malaysia
- Hypocrisy and double standards during Russian President Putin's London visit
- Irish government edges towards legal action against Britain's Sellafield nuclear plant
- New Zealand's new industrial law enshrines unions as enforcers of "productivity" and "efficiency"
- Report details CIA role in overthrow of Iranian government in 1953
20 April 2000
- Bloody Sunday Inquiry hears evidence suggesting deliberate "shoot-to-kill" policy by British Army
- Fujimori forced to cede on second round vote in Peru
- Students and artists protest attack on Indian-born filmmaker Deepa Mehta
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Singapore International Film Festival
Two films from Vietnam: The Wild Field and Collective Flat - US judicial panel backs ultra-rightists in Elian Gonzalez case
- Union officials stump for Democrats while blocking support for Los Angeles janitors strike
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Bid for increased police power in Australia
Wee Waa: a test case for mass DNA sampling - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
21 April 2000
- 19 soldiers killed in controversial military plane
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Singapore Film Festival
An interview with Viet Linh, director of Collective Flat - Resignation of Italian Prime Minister D'Alema threatens to topple government
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Still pleased with himself
All About My Mother, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar -
Australia:
Teachers vote to strike but union prepares for a deal - Tennessee executes first prisoner in four decades
- US Supreme Court upholds limits on death penalty appeals
22 April 2000
- Britain's Conservative Party leader Hague plays the "race card"
- Michigan boy tried as adult enters assault plea
- Poor in US more likely to face tax audits
- Spanish court investigates Guatemalan military dictators
- The IMF tightens the screws on Indonesia
- US supermarket chain slashes 11,000 jobs
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
24 April 2000
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Australia:
Bracks government keeps thousands of teachers on short-term contracts - Film directors and critics at Singapore film festival oppose Hindu extremist attempt to stop Deepa Mehta film
- Film festival director talks to WSWS about censorship in Singapore
- New Jersey Senate passes "parental responsibility" legislation
- Ohio college students defend decision to hear US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- US scientists say fossilized heart indicates dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded
- US scientists say fossilized heart indicates dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded
- US scientists say fossilized heart indicates dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded
25 April 2000
- Argentine police in violent attack on trade union demonstrators
- Honoré Daumier, Intimate Contemporary
- Kids on Pills: BBC documentary examines increase in prescription drug use amongst children
- Military debacle at Elephant Pass set to trigger political crisis in Sri Lanka
- New York services union and building owners reach tentative pact
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Outrage and hypocrisy from right wing, media
Rescue of Elian Gonzalez intensifies political crisis in US - Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Census data show impact of Wall Street boom
Working poor on the increase in New York City
26 April 2000
- Amnesty International reports widespread human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia
- Homelessness in a Rocky Mountain Colorado city—a growing problem
- Los Angeles janitors end strike
- Political tensions mount as Pinochet hearing opens in Chile
- Prosecutions over Australian mine disaster fail to address underlying safety issues
- Suicides reveal impact of government attacks on Britain's education system
- US Supreme Court hears arguments on state-imposed abortion limits
27 April 2000
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Support builds for international campaign against censorship by Hindu extremists
British film director Ken Loach calls for support for Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta - Canada: Mass protests against Alberta health care privatization plan
- Confrontation brewing between Beijing and Taiwan's president-elect
- Finnish unions derail workers' offensive
- Spain: Aznar government seeks opposition agreement to austerity program
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Singapore International Film Festival
The Silence and The Door, two films by Mohsen Makhmalbaf - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
28 April 2000
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Singapore International Film Festival
"Some films can change the fate of their characters"
Mohsen Makhmalbaf speaks to WSWS - A stifled leadership challenge in Malaysia points to continuing rifts in UMNO
- British media and Tories defend murderer of 16-year-old boy
- Germany: a political profile of new CDU chairperson Angela Merkel
- Half of US bankruptcies caused by medical problems, new study finds
- Michigan school shooting: a tragic consequence of US welfare "reform"
29 April 2000
- Germany's post-Stalinists in turmoil: PDS leaders Gysi and Bisky step down
- Interview with a South African Volkswagen worker: "Working conditions are worse now than they were under the apartheid regime"
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Mounting social contradictions in Chile
A personal view after 10 years of civilian rule - Obesity: a curable epidemic
- US states use welfare "reform" to finance tax breaks for the wealthy
- WSWS Editorial Board member Nick Beams replies to a reader's question on the labour theory of value
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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