Archive: July 1998
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 1998
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Detroit-area meeting hears eyewitness reports on impact of US-backed sanctions
"The people of Iraq are dying" - An interview with film critic Andrew Sarris
- Andrew Sarris and American filmmaking
- Clinton looks to Beijing to stave off wider financial crisis
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The train wreck at Eschede, Germany
The terrible cost of privatisation
2 July 1998
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Police attack march against nonunion contractor
40,000 building workers halt rush hour traffic in Manhattan -
The Eel, directed by Shohei Imamura, screenplay by Daisuke Tengan and Shohei Imamura
A naive answer to some serious questions -
First Love, Last Rites, directed by Jesse Peretz, from a short story by Ian McEwan
A refreshing change from Hollywood's image of youth -
Missile attack on Iraq
Danger of new US-made crisis in Persian Gulf - Economic crisis fuels tensions in Malaysian government
- GM workers at Ohio brake plants vote to authorize strike
- How the auto industry and the UAW have changed
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Mass sackings in South Korea
Hyundai workers strike over layoffs -
Sri Lankan police detain Tamil socialist
SEP member Selliah Rajkumar held for 24 hours -
Management firm in concessions demands
Talks fail to end Philadelphia transit walkout - The case of Nathaniel Abraham: background to the prosecution of a child for murder
3 July 1998
- CNN withdraws report on US use of nerve gas in Vietnam War
- China and human rights--rhetoric and reality
- Correspondence from readers on the GM strike
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Bipartisan line-up against Australian dock workers
Documents reveal Labor's waterfront conspiracy - GM plans to bypass struck plants and resume production of key models
- Last car plants close in New Zealand
- Out of Sight: Steven Soderbergh makes do, but what does he make?
- Workers' struggles around the world - 4 July 1998
4 July 1998
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Letter from a GM worker
"We, the workers, have no voice in the union or in management decisions." -
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- A comment on Boogie Nights
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Northern Ireland Assembly opens
Acute social contradictions underlie new political set-up - Ford moves to take over Kia Motors
- Some interesting films on US television, July 4-10
- Talks collapse in Philadelphia transit strike
7 July 1998
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Auto workers around the world speak on General Motors strike in America
"US strike is a warning of what will happen here"
Worker at GM in Australia -
GM worker in Syracuse writes to WSWS
"The UAW cannot serve both the membership and the corporation" - Poverty and health in New Zealand
- Scepticism over Japanese 'bridge bank'
- The media and the New York City construction workers' protest
8 July 1998
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Lucian Freud: Some New Paintings, Tate Gallery, London, through July 26, 1998
A rare chance to see the recent works of Lucian Freud - An exchange on "Danger of a new US-made crisis in Persian Gulf"
- Asian crisis blasts through Scotland's "Silicon Glen"
- GM presses ahead with restructuring plans
- Moscow's anti-crisis program: layoffs, price increases and tax cuts for the wealthy
- Reader comments on social conditions in Indonesia
- Significance of the Green Party: an exchange of letters
- Spain's role as border guard for Fortress Europe
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Discussions with General Motors strikers in Flint, Michigan
Workers grapple with the impact of globalization
9 July 1998
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Victimized miner denounces UMWA witch-hunt
"The International is trying to silence us" -
David Walsh reviews
Cousin Bette: Poor Balzac - A fascinating human self-portrait
- An exchange on the Detroit newspaper strike
- Another mine death in Australia
- Death of Moshood Abiola increases tensions in Nigeria
- Talks intensify to end GM strikes
- Two-day general strike paralyzes Puerto Rico
- US miners' union assaults dissident workers, then moves for their expulsion
- An exchange on Malaysian politics
- Two letters in response to "A comment on Boogie Nights"
10 July 1998
- 500,000 workers join in Puerto Rican general strike
- Britain's Labour government hit by scandal
- Fired journalists say CNN caved in to pressure
- GM worker from upstate New York - "Management and the union have been squeezing more and more out of the workers"
- Labour's lobbyists in search of a fast buck
- Reader discusses third parties in the US
- Science, politics and morality
- Victimized Detroit school bus driver to be reinstated
- Wall Street wants settlement that facilitates GM downsizing
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Cancer patient in Sofia reports on:
Health care crisis in Bulgaria - Workers' struggles around the world – 11 July 1998
11 July 1998
- Australian politics in turmoil
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45th Sydney Film Festival
Case studies of social breakdown - IRS overhaul will benefit US business and the rich
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As poverty and unemployment grow
Indonesian regime fires on workers and protesters - London-Frankfurt Stock Exchange alliance escalates war for global investment
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Rising unemployment provokes widespread industrial unrest
Mass strike and rally called in South Korea - Settlement in Philadelphia transit strike
- Some interesting films on US television, July 11-17
- The political situation in Nigeria after death of Abacha
13 July 1998
- Japanese prime minister resigns after stunning election loss
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Fired CNN journalists speak out:
Kissinger, Powell demanded retraction of nerve gas report
14 July 1998
- GM throws down the gauntlet to auto workers
- Loyalist violence claims three young lives in Northern Ireland
- Officials discuss global economic crisis - Not a "new economic paradigm" but old disorders
- On form and content in music
- On the historical and social roots of Orangeism
- Some thoughts on the France 98 World Cup
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Sri Lanka
Tamil youth and SEP supporters arrested
15 July 1998
- GM files suit against Flint strike
- NZ firefighters fight mass sackings
- The spectre returns! - A political evaluation of Schwarzbuch des Kommunismus [The Black Book of Communism]
- Victimised Australian school teacher dismissed
- What sort of "breakthrough" does I Went Down represent for Irish filmmaking?
- Support for victimized Detroit school bus driver
16 July 1998
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1937: Stalin's Year of Terror
Book by Vadim Rogovin now available on tape - America West Airlines fined for 41,000 safety violations
- Germany expelling thousands of Bosnian refugees
- Inquiry covers up causes of Australian mine disaster
- New dinosaur fossils ignite old controversy
- Social polarisation grows in France under Jospin government
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Letters from strikers and other readers:
The GM strike, globalization and the UAW -
Letters from our readers
The General Motors strike and the working class - Thousands strike in Korea despite arrests
- Unionist violence continues in Northern Ireland
- Why did CNN retract its nerve gas report? A closer look
- On CNN's retraction of nerve gas story
17 July 1998
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The US Supreme Court's ruling on the NEA
A "chilling effect" on art and democratic rights - Another blow to the Howard government
- Australian warehouse workers face police attacks
- Canadian dollar falls to record low
- Court threat to General Motors strike
- How the German government and parties pave the way for the extreme right
- Impressions of political life in the US
- Indian government threatens to use army to break postal strike
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In-fighting over Hashimoto's replacement
Japanese politics in limbo - Police in Michigan mount a manhunt for anti-Klan demonstrators
- The Starr investigation and the right wing
- Wage restraint and privatisation from British Labour government
- Workers' struggles around the world - 18 July 1998
18 July 1998
- An exchange over the Nathaniel Abraham case
- California judge orders man electronically stunned in courtroom
- City University of New York ends open admissions
- Indian postal workers end strike
- Patients cut off waiting lists in Australian hospitals
- Police in Michigan mount a manhunt for anti-Klan demonstrators
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"Exactly what I have been seeking"
Publisher commends WSWS -
Reader comments on the retraction of the CNN "Tailwind" story
"I am increasingly disturbed by how controlled the supposedly 'free' press is in America today" -
Chief Justice rejects last White House appeal
Secret Service agents begin testimony against Clinton - Some interesting films on US television, July 18-24
- Student commends WSWS coverage of economic crisis, NEA-AFT merger vote
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Who is Laurence Silberman?
The right-wing political career of judge in Secret Service decision
21 July 1998
- A whiff of fascism from New York City welfare chief
- Australian Labor Party says shoot at Indonesian fishing boats
- Auto workers turn away from GM-UAW collaboration
- Court to monitor arbitration in US auto strike
- Executions on the rise in California
- IMF protected US banks in Russian bailout
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National Center for Children in Poverty reports
One in four US children under six live in poverty - Remaining 9,000 British miners' jobs under threat
- The old Russia and the new: Yeltsin buries the tsar
- Up to 6,000 killed by PNG tidal wave
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A Toyota worker in Australia
"There should be equal opportunity around the world"
22 July 1998
- Buffalo '66: "All my life I've been a lonely boy"
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Letter to GM strikers from an Australian car worker
"The unions use nationalism to divide the workers" - British GM workers speak on US strike, working conditions
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National Center for Children in Poverty reports
One in four US children under six live in poverty -
Test case in Australia
Resident fights for release of pollution documents
"The public has the right to know" - Student asks about Tiananmen Square
- Student leader commends coverage of James Byrd murder
- US isolated at conference on war crimes
- World Bank warns of disaster in Indonesia
23 July 1998
- A reply to a letter "On form and content in music"
- An exchange of letters on the Mad Cow Disease (BSE) crisis
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Auto layoffs spark general strike call in Korea
Kim Dae Jung detains union leaders -
Killer heat wave in southwest US
Death toll high among immigrants, elderly - Greenspan: US central bank will resist a movement for higher wages
- Homeless Russian boy raised by stray dogs
- Support won for victimised teacher
- The cover-up of a racist murder in Britain - What the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry has revealed and what it has not
- The devastation of CUNY: a cynical attack on working class youth
24 July 1998
- A new rift in New Zealand's government
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Blue Moon, written and directed by Ko Yi-cheng
A self-assured experiment in film - An exchange on Bulworth and race and class in America
- Australia: Teachers denounce privatisation of migrant language courses
- Canadian Auto Workers official denounces GM strike
- Comments on the Starr-Clinton controversy
- Fired journalists defend report on nerve gas use in Vietnam War
- In response to Why did CNN retract its nerve gas story? A closer look
- In response to an article on the IRS overhaul
- Philadelphia transit workers to vote on tentative pact
- Readers commend coverage of PNG tidal wave disaster
- Sri Lankan military hid bodies of its Tamil victims in mass graves
- Support for victimised Australian teacher
- The evidence of US nerve gas use in Operation Tailwind
25 July 1998
- A letter on Nathaniel Abraham case
- America: Two snapshots of the brutal society
- Background to PNG disaster: the legacy of colonial domination
- British carmaker Rover to cut 1,500 jobs
- British media show concern about Labour's closeness to business
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Another death in an Australian coal pit
Hundreds turn out for miner's funeral - Lack of resources compounds Papua New Guinea tragedy
- Mexican auto worker: "I would like to help the GM workers win"
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New York lawsuit winds down
Sharpton, lawyers guilty of defamation in Brawley case - Some interesting films on US television, July 25-31
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Green light for mass layoffs
Unions cancel Korean general strike -
The meaning of Greenspan's testimony
Wall Street demands GM victory in strike - Workers struggles around the world 25 July 1998
28 July 1998
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Stalinism and the Spartacist League
An exchange on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - Argentine workers launch GM solidarity campaign
- Australia: Former PM Fraser calls for coalition
- More warehouse strikers arrested in Sydney
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Letters on the struggle of the auto workers
Replies to critics of the GM strike - Settlement near in GM strike
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New stage in White House crisis
Starr subpoenas Clinton in Lewinsky investigation - Support from NZ for victimised Australian teacher
- The Capitol shooting as the symptom of a social crisis
29 July 1998
- Another comment on form and content in music
- Northwest Airlines workers rebel against machinists' union
- On liberalism and the Democratic Party
- On socialism and democracy
- On the treatment of workers in Singapore
- Parents and teachers denounce NZ school closure
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Obuchi's difficulties prompt share plunge
Political instability in Japan - Tiny Rowland: No longer the "Unacceptable Face of Capitalism"
- UAW abandons jobs fight at General Motors
30 July 1998
- Australian students rally against racist party
- Clinton crisis reveals decay of American democracy
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Government cuts prepare rail disaster
Three derailments in Australia -
Interviews
High school students discuss One Nation - Labour Government sets out to close Britain's borders to refugees
- Looting and land seizures in Indonesia
- Poetry, soldiers and war
- US auto union ends strike on GM's terms
- Demand for release of Sri Lankan detainees
- Kenneth Starr, the American media and the pursuit of "truth"
31 July 1998
- Attack on Scottish local government workers exposes factional struggle in Labour Party
- Australia: Labor seeks to block pollution documents
- Dramatic rise in support for the Scottish National Party
- More letters on the GM strike
- Ontario unions bury protest campaign against Harris government
- Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan: Small truths at the expense of big ones
- TRW announces the closure of 21 plants
- Two more US children face murder charges
- US, Britain block relaxation of Iraq inspections
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