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Archive: February 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.

3 February 1998

• Clinton budget belies reformist rhetoric
• Karla Faye Tucker: Another victim of state killing
• Why is the US going to war in the Gulf? 

4 February 1998

• Meeting honors Jean Brust: “Jean lives on in all of us”
• The Brutal Society
• The Labour government’s agenda in the Irish peace process

5 February 1998

• Jackie Brown:
  The question remains: something or nothing?
• New Labour in Britain:
  The “people’s party” image begins to crumble
• Massive Iraqi casualties foreseen: 
  US Congress brays for war 
• Work for the dole in Australia

6 February 1998

• Federal mediation in Twin Cities Teamsters strike
• Why is Tony Blair backing Clinton's war policy in the Persian Gulf?
• The Reagan airport

7 February 1998

• Asylum seekers testify of brutality by jail guards 
• Clinton crisis exposes threat to democratic rights
• Eyewitness accounts from Iraq
  The toll of death and suffering from US-backed sanctions
• International Labor Organization Report
  Child labor soars in African continent

10 February 1998

• Germany: Protests spread as unemployment tops 6 million
• Korean unions agree to mass layoffs
• The media and the Clinton scandal
  On their moral high horse
• Social unrest undermines Suharto regime
• The libel action against Oprah Winfrey
  US agribusiness attempts to silence debate on BSE
• Near nuclear strike on US revealed

11 February 1998

• US steps up war preparations against Iraq
• Why is Canberra backing the US in the gulf?
• Eisenstein

12 February 1998

• Downsizing continues as stock market soars 
• Employers seek to smash conditions on Australian waterfront
• Teamsters sign pro-company deal with trucking companies

13 February 1998

• Obituary
  Sam Marcy, an apologist for bureaucracy
• South Korea unions abandon strike
• Interior secretary to face prosecutor
• Brazilian workers demonstrate against social security cuts

14 February 1998

• Child labour in Britain
  A quarter of school children working
• Behind Indonesia’s anti-Chinese riots
• Corruption scandal engulfs New York union officials
• Hard lessons from the Liverpool docks lock-out
• The social roots of the Clinton crisis

17 February 1998

• Clinton's countdown to war
• Inspectors or spies -- is there a difference?
• Once again on "weapons of mass destruction"
• Antiwar protest grows in Britain
• Blunt IMF warning to Suharto
• Tensions rise over European Monetary Union
• Unions call off strike by plantation workers in Sri Lanka

18 February 1998

• Eight crashes in eight months
  Air disasters mount in East Asia
• International Labour Organization study
  US provides least maternity support in industrialized world, Australia and New Zealand among worst providers
• A litany of deception
• Amistad: Some historical considerations
• Amistad’s failings
• Clinton's brief for war in the Persian Gulf
  The truth behind the White House lies

19 February 1998

• British Parliament rubber-stamps war
• CIA and MI6 plot to assassinate Hussein revealed

20 February 1998

• SEP speaker addresses antiwar protest
• A political vacuum in Indonesia
• Town meeting on Iraq
  A shabby pretense of democracy
• Workers Must Oppose the Gulf War

21 February 1998

• What the Town Meeting on Iraq revealed
  A political system in crisis
• A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr, Vintage Books, New York, 1996
  A telling saga of cancer and the courts
• Australian Constitutional Convention
  A lesson in capitalist democracy
• Nigerian military topples Sierra Leone junta
• Who is the “repeat offender”?

24 February 1998

• As UN-Iraq deal stalls US bombing
  Clinton issues new war threats
• Quebec’s winter storm: the social issues
• British Labour Party continues coverup of Hillsborough football disaster
• Albright's big lie
  How the US has "protected" the Iraqi people

25 February 1998

• Five-year-old arrested in Florida on felony charges
• Caterpillar workers reject sellout contract
  What is the UAW and whom does it represent?
• The capitulation of the South Korean unions
• GM threatens Dayton plants
• Five-year-old arrested in Florida on felony charges
• Titanic as a social phenomenon
• Titanic: An exchange of letters between David Walsh and a reader
• Readers respond to David Walsh’s review of Titanic

26 February 1998

• No power in New Zealand's largest city
• US leads attack on Japan at G-7 meeting
• Electricity shutdowns in Australia
• Labour Party lefts boost illusions in UN "peace" deal

27 February 1998

• Italian PDS founds new party
• Starr’s attack on First Amendment rights
• Scabs begin training on Australian waterfront

28 February 1998

• What is the meaning of the political warfare in Washington?
• Protests defy Suharto’s repression
• Some thoughts about the 1998 Winter Olympics
• The Florida tornado deaths
  Not by nature's hand alone