Archive: May 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 May 2000
- Crisis in Zimbabwe: British military force poised to intervene
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Despite the lack of a fair trial
Indian governor gives green light for executions over Rajiv Gandhi assassination - Mitsubishi announces 600 further job cuts in Australia
- World Socialist Web Site launches Tamil-language site
2 May 2000
- Fire: A film which bears witness to Deepa Mehta's courage as an artist
- Five killed in racist shooting rampage in Pittsburgh
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Globalisation: The Socialist Perspective
Nick Beams to deliver lecture at six Australian universities - Report finds pervasive racial bias in US juvenile justice system
- The Microsoft law suit, software development and the capitalist market
- The elections in Georgia: an analysis of Shevardnadze's victory
- US Transportation Department proposes to lengthen truckers' driving hours
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 May 2000
- An exchange over the Labour-Alliance government in New Zealand
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Singapore International Film Festival
An interesting experiment in cinematic education - Canadian Alliance leadership race: Why the media buzz over Tom Long?
- Economic nationalism sets the tone for IMF protests in Washington
- McCain in Vietnam: the ugly face of American imperialism
- Radio and TV actors strike US advertisers
4 May 2000
- An air of desperation in Sri Lankan ruling circles as the LTTE makes further advances
- Assault on press freedom intensifies political crisis in Iran
- British teachers vilified for opposing performance-related pay
- Clinton begins final push for passage of Colombia aid bill
- Letters to the WSWS
- Second nuclear worker dies in Japan
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
5 May 2000
- Austria: Right-wing coalition government intensifies welfare cuts
- EPDP thugs in the service of Colombo regime: A serious threat to the lives of SEP members in Sri Lanka
- Ford likely to close Dagenham plant in London
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Metallica joins recording industry's attack on Napster
Rock band launches suit against Internet music downloads - Soros withdrawal: a sign of things to come
- Time Warner pulls the plug on ABC: Flashpoint in economic war among media giants
- US forces expel protesters from Puerto Rican bombing range
- Virtual militancy: a conversation with Human Resources filmmaker Laurent Cantet
6 May 2000
- Australia's Telstra suspends workers on flimsy charges of storing pornography
- Australian government dumps refugees in cities without money or basic services
- Britain: Labour suffers heavy losses in local elections and London mayoral race
- Canada: Parti Québécois convention meets as support for separation wanes
- Email virus wreaks havoc on corporate networks throughout Europe and America
- Pan Am Flight 103: Trial opens of Libyans accused of Lockerbie bombing
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 May 2000
- Museum of Modern Art workers on strike in New York
- No federal charges in police killings of two unarmed Philadelphia men
- Prison labor on the rise in US
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Following a string of military defeats
Sri Lankan government imposes severe new censorship and emergency powers
9 May 2000
- "Self-regulation" spawns Legionnaire's Disease epidemic in Melbourne
- Hostage standoff continues in war torn and impoverished southern Philippines
- Irish Republican Army promises to put weaponry "beyond use"
- Nyack, New York hospital nurses strike in fifth month
- Readers welcome launch of World Socialist Web Site in Tamil
- Sierra Leone: Britain sends crack troops as hostage crisis worsens
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 May 2000
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More than 20 countries affected
"Love-Bug" virus damage estimated at $10 billion -
Singapore International Film Festival
An interview with Bernice Chauly—Malaysian filmmaker - British unions rally for entry to euro
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Washington's 40-year vendetta
Elian's case highlights US assault on Cuba - Fighting erupts again as Sri Lankan government imposes censorship clampdown
- Lincoln letters posted on Library of Congress web site
- New Jersey conference exposes cases of wrongful conviction and imprisonment
11 May 2000
- Ahmet Sezer chosen new president of Turkey
- Australian budget balancing act fails to appease the markets
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Exhibition in Bielefield, Germany—Kazimir Malevich: The Later Work
New insights into the work of Russian avant-garde artist - Letters in support of Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- London's new mayor Ken Livingstone appoints "inclusive" cabinet
- Norway: unions close down general strike against inequality
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A man-made crisis
Severe drought hits tens of millions across India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
12 May 2000
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Demoted Australian principal speaks out:
"The education department is pursuing this with the zealotry of the Spanish Inquisition" - Amnesty International condemns US for violations of UN Convention Against Torture
- Britain steps up military intervention in Sierra Leone
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Colombo crisis poses dilemmas for Indian government
New Delhi offers to mediate in Sri Lanka -
Relaunching London's Tate Gallery—RePresenting Britain 1500-2000
Mona Hatoum at the Tate Britain, Millbank, London -
Near silence from US, Britain on legal frame-up
Tehran regime mounts show trial of 13 Iranian Jews - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
13 May 2000
- English hospital censured for using premature babies as human "guinea pigs"
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2000 San Francisco International Film Festival— Part 1
Everything must be done to restore hope - Ford to close largest UK plant in Dagenham
- Nick Beams replies on globalisation, Marx and political power
- Sri Lankan government bans live TV and radio broadcasts as the military crisis deepens in Jaffna
- The end of the "Ice Age" in Germany
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 May 2000
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Singapore International Film Festival
Films from India: The Servant's Shirt and Split Wide Open - Refugees held incommunicado in Australia, then violently deported
- Takeover of British Rover plant: thousands of jobs still at risk
- The attack on public education: letter from a Philadelphia teacher
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Political crisis in Sri Lanka deepens
Why the Socialist Equality Party turned down Sri Lankan President Kumaratunga's invitation to all-party talks
16 May 2000
- Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens millions
- Explosion at Dutch fireworks warehouse highlights lack of concern for public safety
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Sri Lankan government pushes through new military spending
Economic burden falls on working people - Study finds widespread racial bias in US criminal justice system
- The merger of the Frankfurt and London stock exchanges
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 May 2000
- Atrocities in Sudan linked with fight for oil
- Detroit leads US in police killings
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Acute political crisis in Himalayan country
Nepal government launches crackdown on strikes and insurgency - President Kumaratunga's all-party meeting in Sri Lanka: a platform for the extreme right
- Social inequality increases in Britain
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Hundreds of thousands protest in Washington against gun violence
The Million Mom March: the social and political issues that were not addressed - Victims of the German SPD-Green coalition asylum policies—Part 1
18 May 2000
- Lockerbie trial takes dramatic turn
- New Internet spy agency to be set up in Britain
- US Federal Reserve raises interest rates in preemptive move against wage increases
- US Supreme Court rules rape victims cannot sue in federal court
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
19 May 2000
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Sri Lankan soldiers speak:
'Most of us do not feel that this war is our war' -
Leading author Bapsi Sidhwa defends Deepa Mehta
'They are punishing Deepa for deflating their egos' -
While Indian government remains silent:
A reply by the Hindustan Times to WSWS campaign in defence of filmmaker Deepa Mehta - Britain gives missile contract to European consortium
- Dangers persist of nuclear contamination in Los Alamos wildfire
- Filmmaker Deepa Mehta replies to an attack in the Hindustan Times
- Germany's Social Democrats and Greens suffer further losses in state election
- Letters to the WSWS
- Thousands rally in New York in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal
20 May 2000
- Australian building company collapse leaves families stranded
- Britain's military intervention in Sierra Leone part of a new "Scramble for Africa"
- Former Klansmen indicted for murder in 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Alabama church
- LTTE makes further gains in Sri Lankan fighting
- New email virus potentially more damaging than "Love Bug"
- Paddington train disaster inquiry hears how rail companies "put profit before safety"
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 May 2000
- Michigan judge rejects appeal for a new trial in Nathaniel Abraham case
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The Ontario Tory government and the crisis of working-class perspective in Canada
Part 1: The Tories intensify their class-war assault - Sri Lankan president relies on trade union leaders for support
- Strange siege as Fijian racialists mount 'coup' against Labour government
23 May 2000
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Sri Lankans condemn the government and its new emergency laws
'The denial of the right to information is equal to slavery' - A comment on Rules of Engagement
- How the Socialist Workers Party (US) changed its line on the Elian Gonzalez case
- Indonesian government walking a political tightrope on Aceh truce
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A glimpse behind the veil of business secrets
Microsoft lawsuit reveals predatory corporate practices - Socialist Workers Party (US) denounces rescue of Elian Gonzalez
- US advertiser publishes provocative ad against striking actors
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 May 2000
- 53rd Cannes Film Festival comes to an end
- Algerian refugee commits suicide in Frankfurt airport's asylum zone
- Danish Social Democrats vote for entry into European single currency
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El significado y las implicaciones de la globalización
crítica marxista - Sri Lankan government bans three newspapers under emergency powers
- Suspended Ohio middle school student crushed to death in homeless shelter elevator
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2000 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 2
There are still some courageous people, even in the film industry
An interview with Yesim Ustaoglu, director of Journey to the Sun - Two student protesters killed by police in Durban, South Africa
25 May 2000
- By-election result reveals ongoing volatility in rural Australia
- Fighting intensifies in the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict
- Letters to the WSWS
- Marat/Sade at the Berliner Ensemble
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The Ontario Tory government and the crisis of working-class perspective in Canada
Part 2: The political lessons of the 1995-97 anti-Tory movement - US trade deficit hits new monthly record
- Workers Struggles: Europe
- Workers at Moraine, Ohio auto parts plants reject tentative contract
26 May 2000
- Britain's Prince Charles attacks science
- China trade bill approved by US House of Representatives
- No "political core": the collapse of New York Mayor Giuliani's Senate race
- Political crisis intensifies as Fiji's chiefs encourage racialist gunmen
- Texas executes three men in one week
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As LTTE issues ultimatum to surrender
US and EU push India to intervene in Sri Lanka -
2000 San Francisco International Film Festival- Part 3
War and peace
An interview with Khalil Joreige, co-director of Around the Pink House
27 May 2000
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The families of Sri Lankan soldiers speak:
'Whoever wins this war, the poor people stand to lose' -
Alberta health care workers end "illegal" strike
Provincial Tory government to press ahead with dismantling of Medicare - Britain outlines its colonialist ambitions in Sierra Leone
- GM, Ford idle 1,365 workers—auto industry layoffs signal coming downturn in US economy
- John Gielgud: A life in the theatre (1904-2000)
- Museum of Modern Art strike in New York enters second month
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Not One Less by Zhang Yimou:
The harsh reality of the Asian economic "miracle" in a Chinese province - What is US envoy Thomas Pickering doing in Sri Lanka?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
29 May 2000
- A man of honor—Balzac's Le Colonel Chabert
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A yearning for genuineness
A review of Oskar Roehler's film Die Unberührbare ("The Untouchable") - Former UN arms inspector denounces Iraq sanctions
- New fossil discovery shows earlier human migration out of Africa
- Two rulings from a servile Malaysian judiciary on the Anwar case
30 May 2000
- Cuba and US exchange limited concessions
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2000 San Francisco International Film Festival- Part 4
Films about important subjects that don't explain enough - Investigator into Lockerbie explosion casts doubt on bomb location
- Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon increases Middle East tensions
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The emergency regulations at work
Sri Lankan unions abruptly end two long-running strikes -
Australia:
Teachers' union agrees to sellout deal with NSW Labor government - US magazine seeks to undermine accounts of Korean War massacre
31 May 2000
- Advertising producers moving production out of strikebound Hollywood
- Fiji's military leaders move to impose racialists' demands
- Netherlands fireworks factory explosion—the downside of the Dutch social model
- New Zealand students begin nationwide campaign for free state education
- Questions about Chris Smith's American Movie
- Ulster Unionist Party resumes power-sharing with Sinn Fein
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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