Archive: November 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.
21 December 1998
1 November 2000
- A precipitous increase in Australia's prison population
- Gore in Warren, Michigan: a snapshot of the Democratic campaign
- Layoffs mount as US economic slowdown continues
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Music review
McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster —piano trio in the spirit of Coltrane - Spanish Prime Minister Aznar spearheads drive to deregulate Europe's economies
- Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party member faces workplace victimisation
- The New York Times and the 2000 elections: a contorted attempt to legitimize the two-party monopoly
- Two letters and two replies on "The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi"
2 November 2000
- After communal elections in Kosovo: new conflicts on the horizon
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Green Party presidential candidate at the University of Michigan
For what social forces does Ralph Nader speak? -
Australians living on the edge
New report slams government welfare policy - Northern Ireland's First Minister Trimble adapts to hardline anti-Agreement Unionists
- Two letters and two replies on "The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi"—Part 2
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
3 November 2000
- A note on sources for the Socialist Equality Party statement "The Working Class and the 2000 US Elections"
- Australian bank announces record profits alongside new branch closures and hefty fee increases
- British government warns variant CJD deaths may rise to 250,000
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Following the massacre of Tamil detainees
SEP member speaks about his time in Sri Lankan "rehabilitation" camp - Six Kurdish immigrants suffocate in back of Italian truck
- The Nobel Peace Prize and Korea's Kim Dae-jung
- WSWS readers write in on US elections
4 November 2000
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The US elections
George W. Bush's drunk driving arrest: revelation from the past spotlights political cynicism of the present - Mutiny highlights deep splits in Fiji's military regime
- Online music-swap firm Napster forms strategic alliance with media giant Bertlesmann
- Second cease-fire attempt points to growing divisions within Israeli ruling circles
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After the murder of Tamil detainees
Sri Lankan police and army crack down on Tamil plantation workers - The Walkerton tragedy and Ontario's water crisis-some political lessons
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
6 November 2000
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The US elections
Al Gore's campaign: the death rattle of American liberalism - Britain's flood disaster exacerbated by spending cuts
- Gus Hall (1910-2000): Stalinist operative and decades-long leader of Communist Party USA
- Michigan, California school voucher initiatives threaten public education
- On eve of US elections: auto plants idled and layoffs swell
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Amid impeachment proceedings
Philippines president Estrada struggling to hang onto office - Sri Lankan government under pressure to form a national unity coalition
7 November 2000
- Authorities scapegoat pilots for Singapore Airlines crash in Taiwan
- Britain steps up presence in Sierra Leone as UN Force crumbles
- European Central Bank intervention does little to boost euro
- The political issues facing American workers on election day 2000
- Why has Israel's pacifist movement failed?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
8 November 2000
- British government employs black propaganda and threats against fuel tax protestors
- Indonesia: the drawn-out saga of Tommy Suharto's jailing
- Letters on the US elections, Korea and the Middle East crisis
- New Lithuanian government deepens orientation to European Union
- Readers write in about the Jamie Bulger case
- Voting rights denied to 3.9 million Americans due to criminal convictions
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You can lead a horse to water ...
The Yards, directed by James Gray, written by Gray and Matt Reeves
9 November 2000
- Corruption scandal points to South Korea's continuing economic instability
- France gripped by fear of deaths from Mad Cow Disease
- Something rotten in the state of Florida
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Norwegian envoy meets LTTE leader
Tentative moves in Sri Lanka to put peace talks back on the agenda - The 2000 US election results: the constitutional crisis deepens
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
10 November 2000
- Britain's pro-business mini-budget means no real concessions on either fuel taxes or pensions
- China imposes censorship of news reports and Internet chat rooms
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Sesenta años después del asesinato de León Trotsky
El Significado Contemporáneo de la vida y obra de León Trotsky
Reunión pública en Sidney, Australia - From impeachment to a tainted election: The conspiracy against democratic rights continues
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Official march against right-wing extremism
German government demonstrates "for humanity and tolerance" - Money laundering exposes Nigeria's oppressors
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Political Art—what it mostly isn't, and what it could be
Protest & Survive at the Whitechapel Gallery, London until November 12
11 November 2000
- Asian youth murdered by psychotic racist in British young offenders institution
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Authenticity rarely matched by contemporary filmmakers
The Road Home by Zhang Yimou - Canada's social democrats seek to stave off parliamentary annihilation
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German government moves to ban neo-Nazi party
What are the consequences of banning the NPD? - Japan's economic woes continue
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Texas executes Mexican national
Governor Bush refuses to grant reprieve - The Wall Street Journal and the US electoral crisis
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Sixty-two years after the Nazi pogrom of 1938
Two hundred thousand demonstrate in Berlin against neo-Nazi terror - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
13 November 2000
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Another glimpse at the state of film in Eastern Europe
Tenth film festival in Cottbus, Germany - In US presidential election: Bush seeks to block counting of Florida votes
- Ontario Tories launch massive attack on workers' rights
- Spanish government clamps down on Basque separatist ETA
- The New York Times, the Washington Post and the crisis of the 2000 election
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Media lies and distortions exposed
WSWS investigates the Bindunewewa massacre in Sri Lanka
14 November 2000
- Conference at New York University: a demoralized attack on Trotskyism
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Amid power struggle in Jakarta
Indonesian security forces fail to block independence rally in Aceh - Letter from a Taiwanese film director
- Letters on the US elections
- Opposition unites with former Milosevic supporters in Serbia's new government
- South Africa's ANC government faces growing opposition
- The US election: the conspiracy begins to unravel
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 November 2000
- Britain: Surprise resignation of Chief Inspector of Schools embarrasses government
- Nyerere's legacy of poverty and repression in Zanzibar
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Bill to stabilise parliament delayed
Papua New Guinea prime minister staves off leadership challenge -
Behind the Clinton impeachment trial
Profile of a right-wing conspirator: the case of Theodore Olson - The Bush campaign and the rise of the political underworld
- US election may be on hold, but Texas execution machine grinds on
16 November 2000
- Austria's Kaprun railway disaster reveals lack of safety measures
- Britain's fuel tax protests come to a sorry end
- Canadian elections: why the Alliance campaign is in disarray
- Election turbulence adds to US economic worries
- George W. Bush's three principles: lies, fraud and theft
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On-the-spot report from Florida
Palm Beach becomes battleground in US election crisis - Philippines Congress rushes through impeachment of President Estrada
- President Mubarak's party sustains significant losses in Egyptian elections
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
17 November 2000
- Australian government clashes with leading charity over welfare reform
- Correspondence on South Africa and Libya
- France announces measures to prevent spread of BSE/Mad Cow Disease
- Germany: Party of Democratic Socialism proclaims its love for the Fatherland
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Elements of a conspiracy
How Bush's man at Fox News worked to shape the outcome of the US election -
The US election crisis and its impact on world politics
David North to address public meeting in Sydney, Australia on December 3 -
On-the-spot report from Florida
US election crisis reveals deep feelings about fairness and democratic rights
18 November 2000
- Court slows Bush grab for power: America at the knife-edge
- Daewoo collapse to have global consequences
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On-the-spot report from Florida
Ft. Lauderdale residents voice their opinions about the US election crisis - Letters on the US elections
- Sinn Fein seeks judicial review against Ulster Unionist leader's exclusion order
- Sri Lankan president puts negotiations with the LTTE back on the agenda
- The Canadian Alliance election platform: a manifesto for unbridled reaction
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
20 November 2000
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Interview with Susanthika Jayasinghe
"There are thousands of talented athletes in Sri Lanka but they have no opportunity to develop" - A letter on the situation in Palm Beach, Florida
- Fijian High Court ruling declares military government illegal
- Florida presidential recount: Bush campaign makes appeal to military and extreme right
- Israel's liberal press demands military suppression of the Palestinians.
21 November 2000
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One year after the Musharraf coup
A beleaguered Pakistan military regime faces mounting criticism - Argentine debt crisis threatens global turbulence
- Bosnian elections a setback for the West
- Canadian elections: the real issues in the health care debate
- Hand recounts in the US elections: fact and fiction
- More letters on the US elections
- Study shows opposition to US workers' right to organize has "no parallel in the western industrial world"
- Thousands of New York City teachers rally to demand contract
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 November 2000
- Australia and New Zealand bully island states into accepting regional intervention
- Challenge to Japan's prime minister reveals deep rifts in ruling circles over economic policy
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The debate over a "defining culture" in Germany
German Christian Democrats attack the Central Jewish Council - New Northern Ireland Police Bill set to become law in weeks
- Norway: Labour Party moves to strengthen global drive of country's energy sector
- Peruvian dictator resigns: the fall of Fujimori
- Three Los Angeles police found guilty of framing suspects
23 November 2000
- Israel steps up military and economic warfare against Palestinians
- New York Mayor Giuliani announces crackdown on "quality of life" crimes
- Right to vote upheld in Florida Supreme Court decision on recounts
- South Africa: Eleven die in factory fire
- Violent protests in Indian capital over factory closures
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
24 November 2000
- Alcohol deaths reflect desperate conditions in Kenya
- An exchange on globalisation
- Austrian spying affair reveals close connections between Haider's Freedom Party and police
- French court rules that Yahoo must block access to auction site
- Further moves to undermine Australian public broadcaster
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Canadian Elections:
The Bloc Québécois-a trap for workers - The Republican right prepares for violence
- The US election crisis: why is Ralph Nader silent?
25 November 2000
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The US election
Anatomy of a right-wing riot—the Republican mob attack in Miami-Dade -
The US election
Democrats, liberals retreat in the face of Republican provocations - Putin's visit to India highlights significant strategic shifts
- The debate over a "defining German culture": the Christian Democrats march to the right
- Two boys convicted of Jamie Bulger killing apply for anonymity ruling
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 November 2000
- An exchange over the Singapore Airlines crash in Taiwan
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The US election
Bush campaign spokesman Governor Marc Racicot tied to extreme-right forces -
Canadian Alliance's Stockwell Day and the charge of anti-Semitism
What is the right covering up? -
The US election
Journalist Christopher Hitchens: from "left" charlatan to mouthpiece for the Republican right - Political warfare erupts in Britain over plans for European Army
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Queensland vote-rigging inquiry reveals:
The rotting structures of the Australian Labor Party
28 November 2000
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British minister visits Colombo
A new burst of diplomatic activity to push peace talks in Sri Lanka - Children's Society, top prisons inspector call for an end to jailing children in Britain
- Correspondence about Pan Am 103/Lockerbie
- DaimlerChrysler to cut thousands of jobs in North America
- Floods deluge Australia's most populous state
- General strike in Argentina
- NSW flooding highlights growing river management crisis
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As the election is thrown into the courts
The issue is joined in the US: the right to vote or government by usurpation - Un intercambio sobre la globalizacion
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 November 2000
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The US election
Bush campaign organized Republican riot to halt Miami-Dade recount -
Canada's Liberals retain power by exploiting popular opposition to right
Major class conflicts loom - Ceasefire declared between Serbia and Albanian separatists
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Sri Lanka:
Colombo residents demand halt to toxic pollution -
The US election
Gore cites breach of democratic rights in defending his appeal of Florida vote - Rightwing violence in Sweden
- Shouting but not saying much—Requiem for a Dream
- US trade deficit a sign of growing problems
30 November 2000
- ASEAN makes tentative moves toward an East Asian economic bloc
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The US election
Florida citizens denounce Republican efforts to disenfranchise voters - How Europe views the American electoral crisis
- How the conservative CDU/CSU alliance in Germany stirs up hatred against foreigners
- Letters on the US election crisis
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Bangladesh factory fire kills 48 workers
Locked gates prevented workers escaping death
Use this version to print - Recording giants could join Bertelsmann's embrace of Napster
- Two letters on Thomas Jefferson
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