Archive: December 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 December 2000
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Republicans escalate election conspiracy
Florida legislature moves to override vote and name pro-Bush electors - Government cover-up over South African factory fire
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On-the-spot report
Government leaves thousands of flood victims in eastern Sri Lanka without adequate aid - Republican witch-hunt over military ballots incites anti-Gore comments from officer corps
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Nurses expose cover-up
Sexual and physical abuse in Australia's refugee detention camps - UN climate summit fails amid bitter recriminations between US and Europe
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William Blake: A radical visionary
William Blake: Tate Gallery, London, 9 November - 11 February 2001 - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
2 December 2000
- Growing signs of US economic downturn—job cuts hit auto and technology sectors
- Microsoft appeal against break-up, claiming judge was biased
- New Jersey internal records document widespread racial profiling of black and Hispanic motorists
- Senate removes obstacle to a speedy impeachment trial for Filipino president
- South Korean union agrees to implement mass layoffs at Daewoo
- The death of six-year-old Joseph Abdulla reveals dominance of extreme right in East Germany
- US Supreme Court hearing highlights state conspiracy against democratic rights
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 December 2000
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The US Election
African-Americans, Haitians in Miami-Dade demand recount - An exchange with a reader on postmodernism
- Britain's air traffic control service to be privatised
- Precinct voting studies suggest sizable Gore victory margin in Florida
- Split in Sri Lanka's Sinhala extremists signals emergence of a fascist organisation
- United Nations AIDS report confirms worst epidemic in history
5 December 2000
- Court rulings in US election crisis attack democratic rights
- Israeli prime minister announces early election
- Social conditions in Sri Lanka accelerate spread of dengue fever
- The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 1
- The death of Joseph Abdulla: German Christian Democrats encourage anti-immigrant blacklash
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WSWS chairman David North addresses Sydney meeting
US election turmoil marks the onset of a revolutionary crisis - Washington think tank report calls for the use of "excessive force" and torture against Palestinians
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
6 December 2000
- British intelligence services seek wide powers to spy on phone calls and Internet usage
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On-the-spot report from Tallahassee
Florida A&M students describe Republican attack on voting rights - Row continues over police reform in Northern Ireland
- Six children die in Detroit house fire: faulty fire-fighting equipment sent to scene of blaze
- Turkish banking crisis: another indication of global turbulence
7 December 2000
- Australia and Portugal to set up an East Timorese army
- Britain's press warns that US election crisis threatens global stability
- European Union summit in Nice shrouded in controversy
- More letters on the US presidential election
- Republicans to convene Florida legislature to impose Bush electors
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The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 2
An evening of television news -
Jakarta cracks down on independence rallies
The historical roots of the confrontation brewing in West Papua - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
8 December 2000
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The US election
AFL-CIO rally in Tallahassee: unions offer no strategy to fight denial of voting rights - At least 11 dead in building collapse in southern China
- Britain: Labour government outlines law-and-order election platform
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The US election
Bush attack on voting rights continues in arguments before Florida Supreme Court - Domino Sugar strike in Brooklyn enters eighteenth month
- IMF presses for more job destruction in South Korea
- Mumia Abu-Jamal supporter jailed for speech at Republican National Convention protest
- South Africa: Setback for ANC in local elections
9 December 2000
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The US election
Absentee vote cases provide evidence of Republican vote-rigging in Florida - Anger at decision not to prosecute police officers for killing unarmed London man
- British government exploits death of 10-year-old boy to mount law-and-order campaign
- Executions continue in Texas and Florida: Electoral conspirators George W. and Jeb Bush champion state killings
- Florida Supreme Court ruling: right to vote at center of US election crisis
- German radicals defend Israeli state brutality in the West Bank-Part 1
- Impeachment drive against Taiwan president suspended
- Striking dock workers shot dead in Bangladesh
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 December 2000
11 December 2000
- Another fatal Indian rail crash highlights decades of official neglect
- Britain: Chinook helicopter crash inquiry prompts allegations of government cover-up
- Britain: Labour's proposed urban regeneration plans highlight the growing social divide
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German radicals defend Israeli state brutality in the West Bank-Part 2
Konkret's treatment of anti-Semitism and fascism - Lessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new "irrepressible conflict"
12 December 2000
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India declares unilateral ceasefire
A renewed diplomatic push for negotiations over Kashmir - Democrats prostrate before Supreme Court assault on democratic rights
- Israel: Prime Minister Barak resigns in bid to neutralise his opponents
- Letters on Supreme Court intervention in US elections
- Thousands of manufacturing jobs lost in Australian state of Victoria
- US Supreme Court embraces a century-old legacy of racism and reaction
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 December 2000
- Australian Labor Party votes for Bill to boost wealthy private schools
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As military pressure mounts
Chilean court overturns Pinochet arrest order - European Union summit in Nice increases weight of larger countries
- GM to phase out Oldsmobile brand and cut 16,000 jobs in the US and Europe
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On-the-spot report from Duval County, Florida
Jacksonville voters describe Election Day fraud and intimidation - Lessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new "irrepressible conflict"—questions and discussion
- Sharp conflicts at the French Socialist Party congress
- The reform of France's unemployment benefits scheme
14 December 2000
- Britain demands greater political control over Africa: the case of Malawi
- Britain: Vauxhall car workers protest mass layoffs
- Cabinet reshuffle amplifies factional tensions within Japanese ruling party
- Funding crisis forces hospital emergency closures in Western Australia
- Report by B'Tselem human rights group highlights Israeli brutality against Palestinians
- Supreme Court overrides US voters: a ruling that will live in infamy
- The case of Leonard Peltier: notorious frame-up of Native American activist returns to public spotlight
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
15 December 2000
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A cynical exercise in window-dressing
Australian unions campaign for "reasonable" working hours - Côte d'Ivoire: President Gbagbo stokes up ethnic conflict
- Gore concession speech: Democrats capitulate to right-wing attack on voting rights
- Letters on "Lessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new 'irrepressible conflict'"
- Letters on the US election crisis
- President Clinton pledges clampdown on terrorism in Ireland
- Staff protest axing of key programs at Australian government broadcaster
16 December 2000
- Australian government unveils new interventionist military doctrine
- Europe's right-wing media gloats, while liberals fear discrediting of US democracy following Supreme Court verdict
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Philippines impeachment trial
Evidence mounts of Estrada's involvement in illegal gambling racket - FBI agents march on White House to oppose clemency for political prisoner Leonard Peltier
- Romania after the election
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The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 3
Television personnel: money matters - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 December 2000
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Art and working class life, an attempt
Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry, screenplay by Lee Hall - Australia: New evidence that gambling industry profits from the poorest suburbs
- Bush prepares a government of reaction and militarism
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Detroit house fire claims three more lives
Defective fire hydrants hamper rescue efforts - Drug resistant pathogen kills patients in Sri Lanka's leading public hospital
- Report details history of Switzerland's anti-Gypsy policies
19 December 2000
- Electoral College votes for Bush, sealing an anti-democratic election
- Fiji's military government wins more explicit backing from Australia and New Zealand
- Letters on the post-election crisis in the US
- Norway's extreme right Progress Party wracked by internal feuding
- Pakistani regime allows jailed prime minister Sharif to go into exile
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The American media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 4
Television personnel: a few profiles - Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 December 2000
- As Bush comes to Washington, US economy heads towards recession
- European Court of Justice allows complaint against death sentence by Kurdish Workers Party leader Ocalan
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The 2000 US elections and the new "irrepressible conflict"
Interviews from David North's lecture in Sydney, Australia - New evidence of brutality inside Australia's refugee camps
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Not so distant, but still distant
You Can Count on Me, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan - Spain imposes new anti-immigrant legislation
21 December 2000
- Australian government to abolish welfare entitlements
- Britain's Conservatives spout racist law and order rhetoric
- Detroit police gun down another mentally ill man
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A lesson from history on the US election crisis
Hayes-Tilden dispute of 1876 foreshadowed eruption of class conflict - Letters on the WSWS coverage of Sri Lanka
- US Congress, Clinton shelve aid to low-paid and immigrant workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
22 December 2000
- Australian power workers reject union attempt to impose job cuts
- Family ties, political bias linked US Supreme Court justices to Bush camp
- New York City police seek new restrictions on public protests
- Recent letters to the WSWS
- Sri Lankan government and LTTE inch closer to negotiations
- Turkish state suppresses prison revolts
- Turks mount protests in London
23 December 2000
- Australian welfare agencies unable to meet Christmas need for assistance
- Britain: Children targeted by police investigating ten-year-old's death
- Letter on the Turkish prison crackdown
- Middle East negotiations in Washington amidst continuing violence
- Rwanda on the offensive in Congo War
- Wall Street Journal targets Jesse Jackson: opening salvo in an attack on public dissent
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 December 2000
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Chile's government appeases military
Pinochet's legal victories may see him escape trial - The Bohemian Grove club: America's ruling elite at work and play
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The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 5
Media ownership and concentration - US mayors report increasing hunger and homelessness in American cities
- World Bank and donor countries set the agenda for Sri Lankan government
28 December 2000
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No fire alarms, blocked exits
Christmas night fire kills 311 in central China -
Edison threatens blackouts
Electrical utilities hold California hostage -
After five years on Taiwan's death row
Retrial underway in the case of the "Hsichih Trio" - Terence Davies' The House of Mirth: a comment and a press conference with the director
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The political crisis in the US: its implications for Europe and the world
Editorial of Gleichheit, journal of the Socialist Equality Party of Germany - Turner Prize award to Wolfgang Tillmans hailed as shift in focus
29 December 2000
- A reader comments on The House of Mirth
- Australian government refuses to search for missing refugees
- Britain: Labour Home Secretary supports reinstatement of racist policeman
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A distinction to be noted
George W. Bush: president-elect or president-select? - Israeli-Palestinian negotiations stalled
- One critic's picks for top jazz and blues albums of 2000
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Open appeals to chauvinism divide the Parti Québécois
A comment on the Michaud Affair - Two stowaways fall to their deaths from British planes
30 December 2000
- Australia's Centenary of Federation inspires little public enthusiasm
- Britain's Labour government kowtows to fox hunting lobby
- Chinese authorities commit workers' leader to psychiatric hospital to halt protests
- David Walsh chooses his favorite films of 2000
- Judge bends law to toss out convictions of Los Angeles police
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Unions call off strike
South Korean police storm bank workers' occupation - US economy on the way to recession
- US economy on the way to recession
- US targets Venezuela: Bush plans aggressive policy in Latin America
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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