Archive: July 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 July 2000
- Following the execution of Gary Graham: a curious silence in the media
- Japanese election result sets stage for political instability
- Letters to the WSWS
- Presidential election marks turning point for Mexico
- The post-modernist wonderland: Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
- Three miners trapped in West Australian gold mine
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
3 July 2000
- A reply to US Green Party supporters
- An exchange of letters with Cari Sagan Greene, sister of the late scientist Carl Sagan
- Asian "recovery" on shaky foundations
- Iranian show trial concludes with harsh sentences against Jewish defendants
- Letters to the WSWS
- Why the New York Times wants Green Party candidate Ralph Nader out of the presidential campaign
4 July 2000
- Germany: investigator proves records were destroyed in Kohl's chancellery
- Relatives of Argentines killed in Belgrano sinking take Britain to human rights court
- Ruling party defeated in Mexican elections
- Sri Lankan government delays postal corporatisation bill as workers threaten work-to-rule campaign
- Strike collapses at Calgary Herald
- Tate Modern: London's new gallery of twentieth century modern art
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 July 2000
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Sydney Film Festival
Artistic variety and substance sacrificed to commercial considerations - Germany: Lessons of the public sector wage dispute
- Growing disaffection with Blair government in Britain
- Military imposes a government of businessmen, bureaucrats and high chiefs on Fiji
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New study shows the results of US welfare "reform"
One third of Milwaukee, Wisconsin children growing up in working poor families - South Africa: The ANC government and the AIDS crisis
6 July 2000
- "The only appropriate response is to make the film" An interview with filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- Fragile peace in Ethiopia-Eritrea war
- Nigeria in midst of strike wave
- Papua New Guinea fast money schemes: a financial house of cards collapses
- The return of Elian Gonzalez—the end of a shameful episode
- What business does the US have with the Sinhala chauvinists in Sri Lanka?
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
7 July 2000
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Sydney Film Festival
A critical look at aspects of life in contemporary India - Anti-gay legislation repealed in Scottish parliament
- Letters to the WSWS
- UN world report documents widespread poverty, illiteracy and disease
- US dragnet snares Vieques protesters
8 July 2000
- 23 school children die in Spanish coach accident
- 4,000 health care workers in San Francisco launch one-day strike
- Canadian Alliance leadership race: Will big business embrace the religious right?
- Opposition grows in Hong Kong to Beijing's big business administration
- Study shows how New York City cut its welfare rolls
- Thousands protest killing of Detroit man by mall security guards
- Union at Ohio DaimlerChrysler plant imposes contract without allowing membership vote
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 July 2000
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A poor attempt to explain the twentieth century
Sunshine, directed by István Szabó, written by Szabó and Israel Horovitz -
European Union to investigate US-run satellite spy network
France launches independent probe into Echelon - London nail-bomber found guilty of politically motivated murder campaign
- Ministerial scandal in New Zealand ends Labour's media "honeymoon"
- Philadelphia tense with preparations under way for Republican National Convention
- Report shows private sector profiteering in British education
11 July 2000
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Sydney Film Festival
A sympathetic look at the complexities of old age
Innocence, written and directed by Paul Cox - Britain's Yorkshire Water plans to off-load costs onto customers
- Chirac's European vision unleashes controversy in France
- Human Genome Project: First scientific milestone of the twenty-first century
- International delegates at US Green Party convention defend Kosovo War
- Over 400 lost in Indonesian ferry tragedy as refugees flee fighting in the Malukus
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 July 2000
- European heat wave leads to deaths and forest fires
- Fiji's military leaders accede to racialists' demands
- Iran's President Khatami visits Germany
- Renewed fears that BSE/Mad Cow Disease can pass from one generation to another
- Scandal dogs bidding war over Soccer World Cup
- Sri Lankan government and opposition agree on a shaky plan for a negotiated end to the war
- The New York Times springs to the defense of Kenneth Starr's former spokesman
13 July 2000
- Australia and New Zealand seek to impose settlement on Solomons conflict
- Australian Labor Party's anti-GST policy left in tatters
- Iranian exiles defy massive police presence to protest Khatami's visit to Germany
- Police, media smear Detroit man killed by security guards
- Widespread disturbances in Northern Ireland sparked by hardline Unionists
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
14 July 2000
- Controversy in Japan over record corporate bailout
- Japan's debt crisis hangs over global economy
- More than 250 feared dead in Nigerian pipeline explosion
- Mounting social tensions in Israel and Palestinian Authority loom over Camp David summit
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No idea whatsoever
The Patriot, directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat - Police beating in Philadelphia captured on videotape
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On eve of President Khatami's visit to Germany
Students, workers protest in Iran - Study shows New York workfare program is eliminating union jobs
15 July 2000
- Bavaria's "Blue Card": a new attack on rights to immigration and asylum in Germany
- Britain: Labour's employment initiatives cut welfare rolls and depress wage rates
- Chinese government backs development of Linux operating system
- German state government of Baden-Württemberg shows solidarity with Austrian right-wing coalition
- New Zealand employer sets up "People First" company union
- Victimised SEP member in Sri Lanka reinstated
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 July 2000
- Behind the Australian backpackers hostel fire: young tourists used as cheap labour
- The Gusinsky affair: where are the dangers to democracy in Russia coming from?
- UN report on AIDS paints a picture of devastation—Part 1
18 July 2000
- Former Diego Garcia islanders launch legal action against British government
- Hypocrisy and nervousness dominate Australian union congress
- Italy: work-related accidents and deaths on the rise
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Court decision expresses rifts in ruling circles
Media censorship in Sri Lanka ruled invalid then reimposed - Mediated talks in US commercial actors strike collapse
- UN report on AIDS paints a picture of devastation-Part 2
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 July 2000
- Australian government pours funds into private schools at the direct expense of public schools
- British parliament set to adopt law enforcing police access to encrypted email
- French anti-globalisation protest calls for trade war measures against US
- Germany: Schroeder government pushes through tax reforms to benefit big business
- The Canadian Alliance: the new face of political reaction
- The killing of Frederick Finley: sudden death in an American city
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They'll wait and see
Jesus' Son & Croupier
20 July 2000
- "Sinhala suicide bomber": the case study of a police-media frame-up
- Britain: Deaths from Human BSE reveal "statistically significant rising trend"
- French right-wing party splinters
- French workers occupy chemical plant
- Homeless man killed by Amtrak police in Philadelphia
- Inquiry demanded into death of black youth in Mississippi
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
21 July 2000
- "Promised Land" garbage landslide kills at least 200 in the Philippines
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Art, museums and society
An interview with Jan van der Marck, former chief curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts - Basque separatist ETA steps up violence
- Britain: Labour government presses ahead with performance-related pay for teachers
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Iranian President Khatami visits Goethe's Weimar
A cynical charade courtesy of the German government - Letters to the WSWS
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In midst of tensions over missile plan
US Defence Secretary Cohen demands Australia boost its military - Zar de la Campaña Contra las Drogas Vinculado a Atrocidades Durante la Guerra del Golfo Persa
22 July 2000
- Announcement of new government postponed in Fiji
- As G8 summit meets: debt stranglehold tightens
- British-backed forces in Sierra Leone accused of attacks on civilians
- Mexico after the elections
- Plans to increase government spending spark furore in Britain's media
- Spanish government speeds up liberalisation of utilities
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
24 July 2000
- $116 billion merger of US telecommunications giants Bell Atlantic and GTE
- Heroin overdose deaths on the rise in the US
- Indian air crash highlights declining safety standards
- Poland in the run-up to presidential elections
- Thousands of job cuts in the US
25 July 2000
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A liberal brief for militarism and neo-colonialism
Virtual War—Kosovo and Beyond - Indonesian president faces a confrontation at next month's MPR session
- Scottish Nationalist Party leader Alex Salmond announces sudden resignation
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The tragedy of the "stolen generation"
Stolen, directed by Wesley Enoch, written by Jane Harrison - UK-Dutch steel giant Corus cuts 4,000 jobs
- US Special Counsel Danforth whitewashes Waco massacre
26 July 2000
- "Business and morals"—compensation agreement signed for World War II concentration camp labourers
- Concorde crash outside Paris kills at least 113
- New Zealand's Maori nationalists and the coup in Fiji
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City and police prepare for Republican Convention
Philadelphia rally demands prosecution of cops for televised beating - Talks break off after two days in US commercial actors strike
- The Bush-Cheney ticket: the politics of plutocracy
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Youth's anguish
Hamlet, from the play by William Shakespeare, adapted for the screen and directed by Michael Almereyda
27 July 2000
- Germany's tax reform: the end of the "social market economy"
- Mideast tensions mount following breakdown of Camp David talks
- New data reveals rising poverty under Britain's Labour government
- Nigerian unions concluding separate agreements over minimum wage
- Sogo bankruptcy may signal new era in Japanese finances
- The Korean summit: no recipe for peace and prosperity
- WSWS correspondence on the human genome project
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
28 July 2000
- Concorde—its history and tragedy
- Lawsuit against Britain over Belgrano sinking thrown
- Ontario Tories attack public education
- Rhetoric but no action on global financial problems at G8 summit
- Safety concerns raised in aftermath of Concorde crash
- Temporary injunction granted against Napster
- WSWS correspondence on the Congo
29 July 2000
- Chile floods expose lack of planning and infrastructure
- South Africa: AIDS conference accepts limited agenda
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Sydney Film Festival
Two young Czech filmmakers investigating real human experiences - US Congress pushes tax windfalls for the wealthy
- Western powers exploit growing tensions between Serbia and Montenegro
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
31 July 2000
- Britain: Labour fails in attempt to repeal anti-gay legislation
- Immigrants make up 40 percent of New York City's population
- Pakistan military junta's first budget meets opposition at home and abroad
- Régis Wargnier's new film East-West: a flawed but compelling portrait of postwar USSR
- Spanish Socialist Party elects "New Way" representative as general secretary
- Thousands rally in Philadelphia on eve of Republican convention
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