Archive: November 1999
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.
31 December 1969
1 November 1999
- Clinton, Republicans agree to deregulation of US financial system
- Correspondence on the breakdown of the profit system
- Irish journalist wins court battle against police
- Market reform in Russia brings "dire economic situation"
- Two studies in US underscore importance of early education programs
2 November 1999
- Federal judge rules in favor of Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Indian government prevails over truckers' protest to halt fuel price increases
- Many questions raised by Egyptair Flight 990 crash
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Repudiation of Menem era
New Argentine president to deepen austerity policies - Pakistani autoworkers wage 18-month struggle against Suzuki
- Plans for second stage of House of Lords reform leaked
3 November 1999
- British prisons chief calls for release of two boys imprisoned for killing James Bulger
- Child labour on the increase in Bangladesh
- New study documents growing chasm between rich and poor in Germany
- Protests against the Burmese military junta
- Toronto teacher discusses worldwide assault on public education
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 November 1999
- All candidates in Niger elections pledge to enforce IMF and World Bank dictates
- Australia's "Republic" referendum reveals mass disaffection
- Further major corporate restructurings in Japan
- Hawaii, Seattle: latest shooting rampages in the US
- Michael Portillo emerges as serious challenger for leadership of Britain's Conservatives
- Michigan murder trial of 13-year-old: Testimony undercuts prosecution case
- Sharp turn to the right in Swiss elections
5 November 1999
- Egypt's President Mubarak appoints new prime minister to speed up privatisation
- France's Minister of Finance Strauss-Kahn resigns
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: From a higher reality to a respect for reality
- Sydney Olympics ticketing fiasco: premium seats reserved for the rich
- Trade talks could "blow up" says US commerce secretary
- Voter turnout at record low in off-year US elections
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
6 November 1999
- A sign of despair in regional Australia: police siege ends in suicide
- Britain's Labour government cuts disabled benefits and gives tax handout to business
- Democrats narrowly retain control of Philadelphia City Hall
- Europe and the US challenge Russian domination of the Baltic states
- New York City police cleared in fatal shooting
- Some interesting films on US television, November 6-12
- The UN in East Timor: all the trappings of a colonial protectorate
- US government preparing for mass arrests in Puerto Rico
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 November 1999
- Australian university students occupy campus over substandard conditions
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The unhappiness of youth
David Walsh reviews Boys Don't Cry, directed by Kimberly Pierce - Poor health care for Sri Lankan tea plantation workers
- Quebec public sector workers balk at giving unions strike mandate
- US unemployment figures show decline in job growth and stagnating wages
9 November 1999
- Defeat for Australian republic referendum highlights social divide
- Investigations belie NATO claims of "ethnic genocide"in Kosovo
- Letters on the Michigan murder trial of 13-year-old
- Michigan begins random drug testing of welfare recipients
- Northern Ireland: Loyalist paramilitaries had security intelligence files
- Railtrack announces record profits in the aftermath of the British rail disaster
- Sri Lankan soldiers rebel as one army camp after another falls to the LTTE
- The fraud of the 35-hour workweek in France
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 November 1999
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"Stolen generations" court case
Australian government defends forced removal of Aboriginal children -
"Stolen Generations" court case
Children lived in fear of seizure -
Michigan prosecutes 13-year-old as an adult
Closing arguments due in murder trial of Nathaniel Abraham - Death toll in eastern India cyclone may top 10,000
- Forensic psychiatrist speaks on the Abraham case: "When Nathaniel needed a system there was no system there for him"
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"The police investigate the police and they are never prosecuted"
London march protests against deaths in custody - The Onex-Air Canada struggle: unions pit worker against worker
11 November 1999
- Behind the Microsoft antitrust case: computer giants battle for markets and profits
- Britain: Second juror condemns jailing of two boys for the killing of James Bulger
- Clinton's photo-op against poverty
- Federal appeals court upholds racial profiling by upstate New York police
- Mahathir calls early election in Malaysia
- Protests against fascist murder in Sweden
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Background to the Nathaniel Abraham case
The origins of the juvenile justice system in America - Uruguayan election: Frente Amplio wins plurality in first round
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Workers and residents in Western Australia suffer health problems from Alcoa's alumina plant
12 November 1999
- Animal Farm: a new version on US television
- Demonstrations to protest Italian government plan to end free access to universities
- Five dead in Flint, Michigan nursing home blast
- Funding crisis shuts hospital emergency wards in Australia's largest city
- Rifts appear in Indonesian regime over Aceh
- The decline of the German Social Democratic Party
- Transport strike paralyses Lagos, Nigeria
13 November 1999
- After the Truth: An attempt to tackle Germany's past
- More plans to deregulate and privatise tertiary education in Australia
- Opposition grows to government attacks on public health in Sri Lanka
- Rocket, bomb attacks boost US-Afghan tensions
- Some interesting films on US television, November 13-19
- UN war crimes prosecutor confirms much-reduced Kosovo death toll
- US Supreme Court escalates attack on rights of death row prisoners
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 November 1999
- Australian steel company leaves deadly toxic legacy
- Election defeat predicted for ruling National Party in New Zealand
- Rally opposes murder trial of 13-year-old Michigan child
- Support falls for major parties in leadup to Taiwan presidential election
16 November 1999
- Angola: MPLA inflicts new defeats on UNITA
- British soldiers executed in First World War denied official pardon
- China-US trade deal to "restructure" Chinese economy
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Gloria Abraham speaks out on the Michigan murder trial of her 13-year-old son
"People need to become aware that the government can do these things" -
A chilling portrayal of life and death on the front lines of World War One
Harvey Thompson reviews The Trench, directed by William Boyd - Killings of Kosovans continue under NATO occupation at pre-war rate
- Political turmoil in Sri Lanka as UNP defectors back Kumaratunga
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Australia:
State Labor government seeks to overturn teachers' conditions - Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 November 1999
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America's ugly face
The Insider, directed by Michael Mann, written by Mann and Eric Roth - East Timor: the history and politics of the CNRT
- Labour's "homelessness czar" attacks aid to people forced to sleep outdoors
- Michigan jury finds 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham guilty of second-degree murder
- Pakistani political elite supports military regime
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"It's a tragedy for all of us," says Robin Adams
Shooting victim's mother opposes jailing of 13-year-old defendant in Michigan murder case - Survivors of Korean War massacre by US soldiers seek investigation
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Sri Lanka:
Tens of thousands flee in the face of advancing LTTE forces - US Supreme Court clears way for first federal execution since 1963
18 November 1999
- American abortion doctor detained by Australian immigration
- Background to the Russian assault on Chechnya: a power struggle over Caspian oil
- Blair government outlines draconian measures against civil liberties
- Human rights advocates condemn murder conviction of 13-year-old Michigan child
- Thousands of Indian cyclone survivors at risk due to official indifference
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"I have traveled all over the world... but nobody has ever treated me like this"
WSWS interviews Dr Warren Hern -
The growth of right-wing extremism in Austria
What lies behind the recent successes for Jörg Haider's Freedom Party? - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
19 November 1999
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A superb exhibit on militarism
Camouflage: An exhibition of paintings and etchings by Chandraguptha Thenuwara - Falun Gong members go on trial in China
- High school students protest in Detroit
- New issue of World Socialist Web Site Review now available
- Reflections on the No Gun Ri massacre by a former US serviceman stationed in Korea
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Larry Roberts discusses murder trial of 13-year-old Michigan youth
WSWS reporter interviewed on Seattle radio about Nathaniel Abraham case - Why the rush to judgment in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990?
20 November 1999
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Book Review:
Auden's poetry and his last years
Later Auden by Edward Mendelson Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1999 - Australia's corporate salaries soar as wages are depressed
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Two examples of the social chasm in America
Fed raises interest rates, White House and Congress strike budget deal - London inquest into Asian student's death returns open verdict
- Official disinterest over tens of thousands still missing in East Timor
- Social Democracy at the end of the century: 21st congress meets in Paris
- Some interesting films on US television, November 20-26
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 November 1999
- Lithuanian ministers resign over terms of US buyout of state oil refinery
- Sri Lankan presidential poll: lengthy candidate list reflects growing disaffection
- Sydney nurses take their concerns to the streets
- US intrigues and the imposition of United Nations sanctions on Afghanistan
23 November 1999
- 13-year-old convicted of murder in Michigan: Harsh truths about a repugnant verdict
- Asylum-seekers imprisoned in heat and squalor
- Australian anti-refugee measures flout international law
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The artistic and social significance of the Bauhaus
Former Bauhaus student to speak in Sheffield and Liverpool - London pensioner dies of starvation
- Mitchell review of Northern Ireland Agreement proposes new formula to begin devolution
- WSWS readers comment on Nathaniel Abraham verdict
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 November 1999
- Australia: New South Wales Supreme Court begins manslaughter trial of 11-year-old child
- British steel firm fined over Yemeni worker's death
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New attack on artistic freedom and democratic rights
Detroit museum shuts down exhibit - LSSP backs Kumaratunga in Sri Lankan election
- New York's mayor calls for police crackdown on the homeless
- State racism in the Czech Republic
- US probe of EgyptAir crash: media brands Arab doubts as "wild speculation"
- WSWS readers comment on EgyptAir Flight 990 disaster
25 November 1999
- A conversation with Sri Lankan artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara
- Conservative candidate for London mayor resigns in disgrace
- Mahathir concerned over losses in upcoming Malaysian election
- New Clinton special prosecutor linked to religious fundamentalists
- Pakistan's military regime prepares IMF program
- The battle for Mannesmann: the background to Germany's first hostile take-over
26 November 1999
- Anglo-French summit takes further step towards European military independence from America
- Refugees on hunger strike in New Zealand prison
- Royal Ulster Constabulary awarded George Cross
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Australian state government faces demand for teacher's reinstatement
Test case to be held in Supreme Court - Thai-Burma border reopens after weeks of tension
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
27 November 1999
- Agendaless in Seattle: WTO talks could become a "fiasco"
- Clinton in Kosovo: rhetoric versus reality
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Top AFL-CIO officials, Democrats tied to campaign payoff case
Ex-Teamsters official convicted in union election swindle -
Social Democrats, union leaders agree to wage cuts, longer work hours for construction workers
German government steps in to rescue Holzmann building company - Labour chooses candidates for London Mayor: a process based on manoeuvre and media hype
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Michael Ignatieff in the New York Times
Liberal historian defends the Balkan War against Kosovo "revisionists:" Sophistry in the service of imperialism - Paul Bond reviews Ratcatcher —a film by Lynne Ramsay
- Some interesting films on US television, November 27-December 3
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
29 November 1999
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PBS documentary: "The Battle Over Citizen Kane"
A revealing look at an old controversy - Australian Greens join Labor to block registration of new parties
- How today's film industry views Orson Welles
- Human Development report shows worsening poverty in South Asia
- Impressions of the Malaysian elections: little to do with democracy
30 November 1999
- Agreement signed in Istanbul on US-backed Caspian oil pipeline
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A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies
An exchange of letters on Freudianism and Marxism
A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies - Indictment of Argentina's military alarms political establishment
- Manslaughter trial of 11-year-old continues in Australian Supreme Court
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Ulster Unionists vote narrowly for power-sharing deal
New Northern Ireland Executive to convene this week -
Thousands protest at World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle
Political first principles for a movement against global capitalism - Readers respond to comment by Barry Grey on Michael Ignatieff's defense of Kosovo War
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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