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Archive: August 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 August 1998

• Canada: plummeting dollar producing policy split
• Contaminated water supply in Australian city
• Former US Teamsters President Ron Carey expelled from union
• GM says US auto union gave blanket no-strike pledge
• Hyundai workers sacked in South Korea
• People's Alliance regime strengthens Sri Lankan military
• Some interesting films on US television, August 1-7
• Sri Lanka's New Left Front: an anti-working class bloc
• The Powerball frenzy and the American Dream
• Workers struggles around the world - 1 August 1998

3 August 1998

• After the defeat of the GM strike: What way forward for auto workers?

4 August 1998

• Interview with a GM-Opel worker in Germany
  "Our great grandfathers would turn in their graves."
• Asian slump continues to deepen
• New Opel boss in Europe
  Auto workers face layoffs at GM's German subsidiary
• Crisis in South Asia reflected in Colombo summit
• Euripides' Medea: A timeless drama
  The National Theatre of Greece Directed by Niketi Kontouri, with modern Greek translation by Yorgos Cheimonas
• GM to sell off parts unit
• British newspaper warns of "grave threat" to democratic rights in US
  Observer details right-wing conspiracy behind Starr investigation
• Unstable outcome to Cambodian elections

5 August 1998

• A letter and reply on Art and Freedom: André Breton and problems of twentieth-century culture
• An exchange on Japanese politics
• Japanese opposition manoeuvres to replace Obuchi
• Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) issues urgent protest
  LTTE authorities in the north of Sri Lanka arrest Tamil socialists
• New US provocation against Iraq
• The British House of Lords, gay consent and democratic rights

6 August 1998

• Castro on Caribbean tour seeks to build pressure against US embargo
• Democratic "outsider" exploits popular anger over budget cuts
  Celebrity lawyer wins Michigan primary
• New Zealand government loses majority
• New information indicates lives of Tamil socialists in grave peril
• Pact rejected by wide margin
  Northwest machinists vote down tentative contract
• As prelude to postponing provincial elections
  Sri Lankan government imposes island-wide emergency
• Wall Street tumble: a warning of things to come

7 August 1998

• Anti-Kabila uprising in eastern Congo
• LTTE remains silent - International protests mount against arrest of Tamil socialists in Sri Lanka
• US companies announce 10,000 layoffs
• US prison population hits 1.7 million
• WSWS editorial board chairman demands release of Sri Lankan socialists
• Water pollution cover-up continues in Australian city
• American newspapers, networks suppress exposé by British Observer
  Why is the US media silent on the conspiracy behind the Starr investigation?

8 August 1998

• Bomb blasts at US embassies in Africa kill 80
• Fewer than half of Canada's jobless eligible for unemployment benefits
• Indonesian military puts generals on trial
• Some interesting films on US television, August 8-14
• Third Sri Lankan socialist arrested by LTTE
• Windfall for corporate executives from Chrysler-Daimler merger
• Workers struggles around the world - 8 August 1998

11 August 1998

• RadianceDirected by Rachel Perkins, screenplay by Louis Nowra
  Unhelpful praise for an imperfect film
• Japan could trigger global crisis
  Markets unimpressed by Obuchi's speech
• 73,000 US telephone workers strike Bell Atlantic
• Australian warehouse strikers threatened with dismissal
• Chinese floods displace millions
• As US media suggest targets for military attack
  Death toll mounts in East African bombings
• General Motors worker discusses the Flint strikes
  "We have to be international"
• LTTE remains silent on arrest of Tamil socialists in Sri Lanka
• Western New York hit by spin-off of General Motors' parts division

12 August 1998

• Pennebaker and Hegedus: seminal figures in American documentary film
• Habibie unveils plan to maintain political restrictions in Indonesia
• Hyundai workers continue to fight lay-offs
  Korean unions trade-off wages and conditions
• International protests mount against LTTE arrest of Tamil socialists in Sri Lanka
• Modern day Britain: where deceased humans become "waste products"
• US telephone workers union ends strike against Bell Atlantic

13 August 1998

• Pulp Fiction: Something or nothing?
• On eve of Clinton testimony
  A noteworthy shift in media coverage of Starr investigation
• Merger will lead to job cuts
  British Petroleum acquiring US oil producer Amoco
• Former British MI5 agent alleges plot to assassinate Gaddafi
• International campaign demands release of Sri Lankan socialists
• Jane Campion's The Piano: A sensitive touch to a fairly selfish theme
• Ken Loach's Land and Freedom: The Spanish revolution betrayed
• Letter from Sri Lankan SEP general secretary to the LTTE
• Massive job losses hit British industry
• Questions mount in Kenya, Tanzania bombings
  US government, Israeli intelligence had advance warning

14 August 1998

• Australian tax plan to hit working people
• Blair brings yet another businessman into government
  Behind the appointment of Gus Macdonald to the Scottish Office
• Campaign to free Tamil socialists reaches Indian, Sri Lankan immigrant audiences
• India: BJP coalition partner indicted for organizing communal riots
• Asian crisis hits US economy
  Signs of recession in high tech, agriculture

15 August 1998

• Australian miner runs for right-wing One Nation party
• Boeing pushes ahead with huge job cuts
• Messages from Russia, US, Australia demand release of Tamil socialists
• Pivotal struggle over the future of public education in Canada
  Ontario teachers threaten to resume strike
• Prosecutors, media distorted case against Chicago boys charged with murder
• Ruling New Zealand coalition disintegrates
• Some interesting films on US television, August 15-21
• The Nairobi terror-bombing: some issues not considered in the American media
• UK police to mount nationwide roadblocks
• Workers struggles around the world: 15 August 1998

18 August 1998

• How the UAW promotes anti-Mexican chauvinism
  A case in point
• Outrage--and silence--over concentration camps for immigrants
• Pesan-pesan dari Rusia, AS, Australia menuntut pembebasan bagi sosialis-sosialis Tamil
• Russian question hangs over international markets
• Telephone workers strike US West
• The Omagh bombing and the dead-end of nationalism

19 August 1998

• Clinton speech signals intensification of Washington political warfare
• Drug companies profiteering at the expense of the National Health Service
• Human trials of HIV vaccine to begin
• LTTE communiqué threatens Tamil socialists with execution
• Sharp tensions between Malaysia and Singapore
• Striking auto workers, police clash in Korea

20 August 1998

• An unstable minority government in New Zealand
• Australian tax package marks a fundamental shift
• Death on the US-Mexico border
• Omagh bombing used to push through draconian security measures
• Sri Lankan SEP defends Tamil plantation workers
• Detroit authorities force dismantling of art work
  The last days of the Heidelberg Project

21 August 1998

• Australian communication workers face new impasse
  Telstra demands deeper cuts
• Blair government in crisis over welfare
• Flood disaster spreads in China
• Glasgow workers strike against Labour council budget cuts
• New talks in US West strike
• Sri Lankan SEP holds protest to demand release of Tamil socialists
• The press and US militarism -- a lesson from history

22 August 1998

• German court reopens case over arson attack on refugees
• Police and union officials mount frame-up of dissident textile workers in India
• Some interesting films on US television, August 22-28
• Strikes in three Ontario school districts
• The Sudan-Afghanistan attack: Clinton uses cruise missiles to placate political opponents
• Workers Struggles Around the World - 22 August 1998

25 August 1998

• Russian crisis shakes global markets
• Landscape and artistic development in new worlds
• NATO plans attacks in Kosovo
• On the gulf between "high" and "low" in music
• Portrait of an Australian by-election
  The gulf between official politics and ordinary people
• The American media and the Clinton scandal
  Ringmasters of political pornography
• Science v. Religion: The history and significance of the 1925 Scopes trial
• Secret Timor documents implicate former Whitlam government in Australia

26 August 1998

• Another coal mine closes in Australia
• Food poisoning deaths inquiry shields British meat industry
• After missile attacks, Republican leader downplays impeachment threat
  Gingrich to Clinton: message received
• Indonesian hospitals head toward breakdown
• LTTE fails to reply to International Red Cross inquiry into arrest of Sri Lankan socialists
• Your Friends & Neighbors, written and directed by Neil LaBute
  Marketable despair
• Risking a nuclear war
• US West hardens stand against striking telephone workers
• "Nerve gas factory" claim exposed as hoax
  What are the real reasons for the US missile strikes?

27 August 1998

• Blair uses Omagh bombing to sanction erosion of democratic rights
• Britain: Labour's arts policy is a disaster in the making
• Escalating war in the Congo threatens to destabilise sub-Saharan Africa
• German TV exposes CIA, Mossad links to 1986 Berlin disco bombing
• German federal elections: Partei für Soziale Gleichheit runs candidates in six states
• Intensive campaigning begins in German national election
• Japan: deepening social crisis underlies political turmoil
• Northwest Airlines, pilots union in talks as strike deadline approaches
• Baseball star risks health in pursuit of home run record
  Professional sports, drugs and profits

28 August 1998

• International market turmoil: A sea-change in world economy
• "Shouts from the Wall," an exhibit of Spanish Civil War posters - Fascinating artifacts from a momentous struggle, and crude apologetics for Stalinism
• Interview with attorney of 12-year-old charged with murder in Michigan
  "This is a test case to try any child as an adult"
• British Labour government to use unemployed as substitute for teachers
• Faction fight in New Zealand teachers union
• Korean unions accept Hyundai job cuts
  Angry workers denounce agreement
• Legal battle over rights of disabled students in Australia
• Mass graves begin to reveal scale of atrocities in Indonesia
  Thousands killed in Aceh
• Northwest Airlines prepares for strike
• Reader explains conditions of Mexican workers
• US explanation of Sudanese missile attack unravels
• Readers write in about the US bombings in Sudan and Afghanistan

29 August 1998

• Impending pilots' strike at Northwest Airlines
• Resignation of American arms inspector sparks new demands for US military action against Iraq
• Rodchenko's art and fate: the experiment continues
• Security Council rejects appeal from Sudan over US missile attack
• Some interesting films on US television, August 29-September 4
• The "Diana" phenomenon re-examined
• Workers struggles around the world: 29 August 1998

30 August 1998

• Airline pilots strike Northwest
• Indonesian military dismisses Suharto's son-in-law