Archive: October 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.
2 October 2000
- An interview with Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
- Australian Labor and union leaders end fuel blockades
- Conclusion to Microsoft anti-trust case delayed: Supreme Court decides against expedited hearing
- Protest in eastern Sri Lanka to mark the "disappearance" of army detainees
- Third Greek ferry accident brings death total to at least 78
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2000 Toronto International Film Festival - Part 3
Why are these women escaping?
The Circle, directed by Jafar Panahi, screenplay by Kambozia Partovi, based on an original work by Panahi
3 October 2000
- BSE inquiry delivers report as scientists raise fresh concerns about "mad cow disease"
- County workers on strike in Los Angeles
- Millions of flood victims in India desperate for food, clean water and medicine
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Australia:
Newcastle hospital closure will further undermine public health - Spain's fuel tax protests met with brutal repression
- Talks collapse in US actors strike
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The working class and the 2000 US elections
Part 1: The shifting grounds of American politics - Thousands of jobs cut amid signs of US economic slowdown
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 October 2000
- A multi billion dollar transfusion to private health insurers in Australia
- Déficit de la Balanza Comercial de Los Estados Unidos Bate el Récord Mensual; Indica Problemas Económicos Profundos
- Israeli provocation against Palestinians ignites a social powder keg
- Sri Lankan government intensifies military offensive in the lead-up to election day
- The third of October—ten years since the reunification of Germany
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The working class and the 2000 US elections
Part 2: The social structure of America in 2000 - Washington steps up pressure on Haitian government
5 October 2000
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2000 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 4
Children in the mountains
A Time for Drunken Horses, written and directed by Bahman Ghobadi - Debt-fueled US economy set up for a fall
- London postal strike threatened
- Pennsylvania death row inmates conduct hunger strike
- Socialist Equality Party's election campaign reaches hundreds of thousands in Sri Lanka
- Striking Los Angeles transit workers defy union officials and continue walkout
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The working class and the 2000 US elections
Part 3: The crisis of the political system - US Green Party candidate Ralph Nader barred from site of presidential debate
- Xenophobic referendum defeated in Switzerland
6 October 2000
- Milosevic opponents gain control of Yugoslav parliament and state TV
- Refugees stage hunger strike against immigration crackdown in New Zealand
- The Bush-Gore debate: snapshot of a political system in decay
- The nationalistic reflex: left-wing newspapers in Germany exhibit unrestrained enthusiasm for Putin
- US chemical pollution threatens child health and development
- Underground explosion adds to China's appalling death toll in coal mines
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
7 October 2000
- Dismissal of Suharto case heightens power struggle in Indonesia
- Fresh attacks on individual rights loom as US Supreme Court begins new term
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Israel-Palestine talks in Paris break up acrimoniously
Five more Palestinians killed by Israeli troops - Letters on Wen Ho Lee and the New York Times and the Rosenberg case
- US Food and Drug Administration approves RU-486 abortion pill
- What does Milosevic's downfall portend?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Zimbabwe: Promotion of the MDC by middle class radicals politically disarms the working class
9 October 2000
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2000 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 5
"The world is so complicated, who'd want to see it?"
The House of Mirth, directed by Terence Davies, based on the novel by Edith Wharton Little Cheung, written and directed by Fruit Chan - BJP-led government censors painting at India's National Gallery of Modern Art
- Los Angeles transit strike enters fourth week
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On the eve of the general election
Sri Lankan president announces "no-holds-barred" military campaign - Vancouver city workers strike nearly two weeks old
10 October 2000
- Irish blood bank "knowingly" risked using contaminated products, Dublin tribunal told
- Napster offers deal to recording industry
- Pierre Elliot Trudeau & the demise of liberal Canadian nationalism
- Sri Lankans go to the polls amid violence and intimidation
- Trotsky's Europe and America: new edition of seminal essays from the 1920s published in Germany
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 October 2000
- A glimpse of the working conditions being created by capitalism in China
- Israel's right wing take Middle East to the brink of war
- Letters to the WSWS
- Once again, on the New York Times and the Nader campaign
- Social Democratic-Green government in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia deports Tamils
- UN report underscores key role of foreign investment in global economic integration
12 October 2000
- 42,000 Los Angeles county workers strike as transit walkout continues
- British firms given right to spy on employees' e-mail and phone calls
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2000 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 6
Independent filmmaking that is genuinely independent
Platform, written and directed by Jia Zhang-ke Yi Yi [A One and a Two], written and directed by Edward Yang - Indonesian budget sets stage for further political instability
- Kwasniewski returned in presidential elections in Poland
- On the politics of the Workers World Party
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
13 October 2000
- Australia: Private prisons to remain in Victoria despite government takeover of women's jail
- How the West organised Milosevic's downfall
- Indian prime minister's trip to the US: another sign of closer ties between Washington and New Delhi
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Film Review
Saroja: a distortion of the racist war in Sri Lanka - Zimbabwe: Relations between MDC opposition and Mugabe deteriorate
14 October 2000
- AFL-CIO moves to isolate Los Angeles transit strike
- Australian union manoeuvres with BHP in coal mine stoppages
- Extreme right make significant gains in Sri Lankan elections
- Lithuania: Ruling Homeland Union suffers election collapse
- The second US presidential debate: Gore throws himself on the mercy of the media
- US threats in response to bombing of American ship in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 October 2000
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2000 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 7
A conversation with film critic Robin Wood - Britain: Memorial meeting held for socialist playwright Jim Allen
- Israel's war measures and the legacy of Zionism
- Latest issue of the quarterly World Socialist Web Site Review now available
- Row over policing reform in Northern Ireland continues
- World Socialist Web Site correspondent Barbara Slaughter speaks at Jim Allen memorial meeting
17 October 2000
- Letters protesting government ban on Sri Lankan film
- Lockerbie-Pan Am 103: Prosecution case evaporates
- Signs of disintegration in Papua New Guinea security forces
- What is the significance of the delay in the Napster ruling?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
18 October 2000
- A reader writes in praise of Bahman Ghobadi's A Time for Drunken Horses
- Australian government to pour billions into private schools
- Former East German Stalinist leader and PDS head Gregor Gysi discovers the nation
- The Internet: US court challenges online anonymity
- Uneasy ceasefire announced at US-Israeli-Palestinian summit
- Violent juvenile crimes in Japan point to a deeper social crisis
19 October 2000
- Australian government caught in a bind over Telstra privatisation
- Belgium's extreme right Vlaams Blok increases vote in regional elections
- Democrats, AFL-CIO pressure Los Angeles transit strikers to accept contract concessions
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2000 Vancouver International Film Festival—Part 1
Drama, protest, sensuality - Euro resumes its downward slide
- France: finance scandal rocks the Fifth Republic
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
20 October 2000
- Australian Reconciliation Minister's comments denounced
- Britain: Financial scandal surrounding Peter Mandelson returns to haunt Labour government
- Death of four in Hatfield train derailment highlights safety issues on Britain's railways
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Market reforms fuel regional divisions
India creates first new states in 30 years - One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 1
- UN report on least developed countries shows worsening poverty and debt
21 October 2000
- Australian military policy reappraisal amid new regional uncertainties
- Deadly Ebola outbreak spreads in Uganda
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Amid moves for a national unity government
Kumaratunga appoints an unstable coalition cabinet in Sri Lanka - One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 2
- Texas death penalty report details racial bias and prosecutorial abuse
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Sixty years after the assassination of Trotsky
The contemporary significance of Leon Trotsky's life and work
Public meeting in Sydney, Australia - The final US presidential debate and beyond: Gore limps toward the finish line
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 October 2000
- Filipino president faces calls for resignation over gambling payoffs
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2000 Vancouver International Film Festival
Interviews with Singing Chen (Chen Xinyi), director of Bundled, and Kim Sang-Jin, director of Attack the Gas Station -
2000 Vancouver International Film Festival—Part 2
Less and more interesting films - One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 3
- The Internet: US Congress to consider Web filtering in schools and libraries
24 October 2000
- A letter on "After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War"
- After the Arab summit: Israel escalates attack on Palestinians
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Insights into the faded hopes of the 60s generation
Life After George, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 Theatre—through December 9 - Solomon Islands peace agreement entrenches ethnic divisions
- Tentative agreement reached in US commercial actors strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 October 2000
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In wake of Israeli violence against Palestinians
Anti-Jewish attacks mount in Britain and France -
Deconstructing History
Review of The Isles by Norman Davies (Macmillan, 1999, ISBN 033376370X, £30) -
The PDS party conference in Cottbus
German post-Stalinists poised to enter the "mainstream" - Los Angeles police attack protesters outside LAPD headquarters
- The 2000 Olympics: a comment on the behavior of the US sprinters
- Timor Gap dispute highlights motives behind Australian intervention
26 October 2000
- Britain: After the Hatfield rail crash—are accidents good for business?
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The "beautiful" vs. the "rich"
Italy's centre-left coalition chooses Francesco Rutelli as its leading candidate - Nobel prize awarded for research into the nervous system, memory and mood
- Sri Lanka: the life and legacy of Sirima Bandaranaike
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Speeches commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Trotsky's assassination
The contemporary significance of Leon Trotsky's life and work -
2000 Vancouver International Film Festival—Part 3
The difference between feeling and playing at feeling - US elections: Democrat Gore advances pro-corporate economic agenda
27 October 2000
- Canada's "mini-budget" lets rich appropriate still greater share of social wealth
- Canadian election campaign kicks off: Liberals offer tax cuts to the rich and populist demagogy to working people
- Study finds largest US corporations avoiding billions in taxes
- Tamil detainees hacked to death in Sri Lanka by organised racist mob
- The Reith telecard scandal: another ultimatum to the Australian government
- The US elections: What accounts for the anti-Nader hysteria of the New York Times?
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Speeches commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Trotsky's assassination
Trotsky's struggle against Stalin and the tragic fate of the Soviet Union - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
28 October 2000
- Ethnic violence and mass deportations of immigrants in Libya
- General Guei ousted in Côte d'Ivoire clashes
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Impeachment not revisited
The Contender, written and directed by Rod Lurie - Readers write in on WSWS coverage of the Middle East crisis
- Reuniones en Berlín y Londres Atraen a un Público Agradecido
- Sri Lankan government ally suspected in murder of BBC's Jaffna correspondent
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Growing poverty in the Balkans
The Croatian experience belies Western promises of prosperity for Yugoslavia -
Speeches commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Trotsky's assassination
The significance of Leon Trotsky's thought for Africa today - US independent counsel issues Travelgate report: an ignominious end to another anti-Clinton scandal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 October 2000
- A reply to a supporter of the World Socialist Party of the USA
- Colombia civil war intensifies as US escalates intervention
- Competitive pressures drive Chevron-Texaco mega-merger
- Las agresión bélica de Israel y el patrimonio del sionismo
- Philadelphia teachers strike
- Two boys imprisoned for killing British toddler Jamie Bulger face possible release
31 October 2000
- Austria: heavy losses for Haider's party in provincial elections
- Big business renews pressure on New Zealand government as economy falters
- Britain's official inquiry into BSE/Mad Cow Disease finds no one to blame
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When you can't see it "the world is a wonderful place"
Dancer in the Dark, written and directed by Lars von Trier - Philadelphia teachers union calls off strike
- Sharp slowdown in US growth rate
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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