Archive: June 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.
1 June 2000
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A quarter of a million march in support of Australia's Aborigines
But who are the beneficiaries of "reconciliation"? - Channel 4 correspondent highlights censorship of Britain's role in Sierra Leone
- DNA retesting denied for Texas death row inmate
- Danger signs ignored before fatal pier collapse in Philadelphia
- Letters on "What is US envoy Thomas Pickering doing in Sri Lanka?"
- Letters on the WSWS Arts Review
- Seven dead from e-coli contamination in Ontario, Canada
- US drug czar tied to atrocities in Gulf War
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
2 June 2000
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2000 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 5
A French film of a different sort
An interview with Claire Devers, director of The Thief of St. Lubin - Clinton's tour overshadowed by US-European tensions
- Elections in Haiti, Dominican Republic reflect rising opposition to IMF policies
- Judge grants more time to government in Microsoft anti-trust case
- New Taiwanese president treads cautiously on policy to China
- Spain and France plan joint offensive against Basque separatist ETA
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A sign of unrest among workers
Sri Lankan postal union ousts leader for agreeing to government restructuring - US appeals court rejects Brooklyn garment workers' lawsuit against union
- US court, ruling in favor of Cuban father, rejects asylum hearing for Elian Gonzalez
3 June 2000
- Canada: Ontario government bends to pressure for a public inquiry into e-coli deaths
- Economic stagnation set to continue in Japan
- Germany: Bundeswehr to become an army for foreign intervention
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A delicate balancing act
Indonesian government moves tentatively to put Suharto on trial - Russian President Putin moves toward authoritarian rule
- US court upholds nine-year solitary confinement of Philadelphia man
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 June 2000
- Britain: Labour government announces privatisation of three more Local Education Authorities
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Globalisation: The Socialist Perspective
Part One - Nick Beams concludes successful Australian lecture tour
- Sri Lankan SEP calls on all workers to reject deduction of two days' wages for war
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2000 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 6
The big idea that everybody has
An interview with Bibiana Beglau, actress in The Legends of Rita, directed by Volker Schlöndorff
6 June 2000
- An account of American terrorism in Vietnam
- Audit Commission report critical of Britain's compulsory dispersal of refugees
- Behind the government crisis in Poland
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Globalisation: The Socialist Perspective
Part Two - Letters in support of Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
- Letters to the WSWS
- Northwest Airlines flight attendants ratify agreement
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 June 2000
- Alaska Airlines faces possible shutdown over lax maintenance of jets
- Battle for Paris mayor's office highlights crisis within France's right-wing parties
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Prosecutors want 13-year-old tried as adult
Florida middle school student held in fatal shooting of teacher -
Globalisation: The Socialist Perspective
Part Three - Pan Am 103: Conflicting evidence in Lockerbie trial concerning location of bomb
- Shuttle crew repairs International Space Station, but ISS's troubles on earth continue
- Solomon Islands coup sets stage for civil war
8 June 2000
- Explosive growth internationally in trafficking of women and children for sex trade
- Mounting opposition in Fiji to racialist coup
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Opposition to Sri Lankan government grows
Political lessons of May 25 picket -
2000 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 7
Preserving the utopian moment
An interview with Daniel Schmid, director of Beresina or the Last Days of Switzerland - The "Third Way" loses its allure: Clinton, European leaders head up Progressive Governance conference in Berlin
- The failure of the Italian referenda
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
9 June 2000
- Belgian government restructures armed forces and "restarts its African policy"
- British diplomat assassinated in Athens
- Chilean court revokes Pinochet's legal immunity
- Five murdered at Wendy's restaurant in New York City—the brutalization of everyday life
- US Judge orders break-up of Microsoft
- Wall Street hails signs of downturn in US economy
- Whyalla tragedy highlights Australian air safety concerns
10 June 2000
- Bank report points to financial storms
- Critique of Kosovo War urges European powers to unite against US
- Sri Lankan government imposes prices rises to finance the war effort
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Tito Puente dead at 77
The soul of Latin music dies - WSWS report from scene of e-coli deaths: Walkerton, Ontario residents demand answers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 June 2000
- German public sector workers vote to strike
- Letters to the WSWS
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2000 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 8
The compassionate gaze
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami at the San Francisco film festival -
World Socialist Web Site Review editorial
The historical roots of Sri Lanka's civil war - US panel calls for stepped-up repression and police spying
13 June 2000
- As verdict nears, US, Britain maintain silence on frame-up of Iranian Jews
- Desperate refugees break out of Australian detention centres
- Lawsuit against fashion designer details sweatshop conditions in New York City garment factories
- Mori's 'gaffes' point to a revival of right-wing Japanese nationalism
- Peace efforts fail to halt Ethiopia-Eritrea war
- US House votes to eliminate inheritance tax
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- World leaders pay homage to Syrian President Assad—Bonapartist ruler and valued asset of imperialism
14 June 2000
- 12 million young adults in the US lack health insurance
- An American tragedy born of poverty: the death of an unemployed mother in Detroit
- British parliamentary committee admits NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was illegal
- Federal magistrate imposes severe restrictions on supporters of US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Pontiac, Michigan to proceed with obscenity case against artist
- Renewed fighting in northern Sri Lanka undermines push for a negotiated deal
- What the British Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Kosovo reported
15 June 2000
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Bishop denounces Sri Lankan military
Hundreds of casualties in "senseless war" on Jaffna peninsula - New York police, Mayor Giuliani attack Bruce Springsteen for criticizing Diallo shooting
- New issue of World Socialist Web Site quarterly magazine now available
- Pan Am 103: Iranian defector alleges Tehran linked to Lockerbie bombing
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
16 June 2000
- Indian foreign minister's balancing act in Colombo
- Inequality worsens in New Zealand ... but Labour rushes to appease big business
- Jacob Lawrence dead at 82: a major American painter
- Reforma y revolución en la época del imperialismo
- The bitter legacy of Syria's Hafez al-Assad
- UN report examines high levels of child poverty in the richest countries
- World Bank Report catalogues a social catastrophe in Africa
17 June 2000
- Côte d'Ivoire coup leader seeks to consolidate power
- Detroit blackout reveals crumbling infrastructure in US cities
- Evidence mounts linking Tory policies to e-coli deaths in Ontario
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After 70 years in operation
Financial problems close the Martha Graham dance center in New York City - Large-scale arrests of Tamils following bomb blast
- Sri Lankan authorities seize on minister's assassination to promote war against Tamils
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 June 2000
- A child murder in Japan points to a growing social alienation
- Amnesty International charges NATO with war crimes
- Break-in at Philadelphia office of supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Lack of alternative leads New South Wales teachers to accept union deal
20 June 2000
- Britain: 10,000 job losses announced in one week
- Free speech—Singapore-style
- Split in Front National deepens crisis of extreme right in France
- The implications of the US economy's reliance on a huge capital inflow
- Washington bows to Fujimori's vote fraud
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 June 2000
- 58 Chinese migrants found dead in lorry at Dover, Britain
- CIA says Africa's AIDS epidemic is a "national security" issue
- Franco-German summit agrees to close military and political cooperation
- Sri Lankan government and unions form "civil defence committees" to police war effort
- Young Dr. Freud : a television film
22 June 2000
- Extraordinary solo cello performance of Bach's Suites in Australia
- On Putin's "Greater Russian" aspirations and NATO
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US death penalty study exposes a system rife with errors
Seven of ten cases "seriously flawed" -
Fiji's coup crisis continues
What has happened to the voice of the working class? - Widespread protests against impending execution of Gary Graham in Texas
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
23 June 2000
- A "very good year" for Australia's richest 200 individuals
- British Home Secretary campaigns to overturn Geneva Convention on asylum
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Generalities
The Virgin Suicides, directed by Sofia Coppola, screenplay by Coppola, from the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides - In cold blood: the state murder of Gary Graham
- Indian government in damage control over call for Tamil state in Sri Lanka
- Montenegro: Elections herald further instability in the Balkans
- Report details the railroading of defendants to the death chamber in Texas
24 June 2000
- After the execution of Gary Graham: the world looks at America and America looks at itself
- Disaffection and slump dominate Japanese election
- Eighteen young fruit pickers killed in Australian hostel fire
- German Green party calls for professional army
- On eve of Green Party convention, Ralph Nader appeals to Teamsters union leaders
- State Department drops the term "rogue state"—cynicism and crisis in US foreign policy
- The social significance of Toronto's June 15 homeless "riot"
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New scientific study suggests
Water, flash floods and new possibilities for life on Mars - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
26 June 2000
- Carve-up of diamond and mineral rights exposed, as Britain continues recolonisation of Sierra Leone
- Consumption tax conflicts wrack Australian government
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European summit in Portugal
European Union proceeds with plans for independent military entity -
Posing some of the right questions
Einar Schleef 's Verratenes Volk (A People Betrayed) at the Deutschen Theater in Berlin - Reply to a reader's questions on socialist program
- Sri Lankan SEP member victimised by Elastomeric management
27 June 2000
- Actors' unions strike in the US approaches two-month mark
- Green Party elected officials stress their mainstream political credentials
- Labour Party presents a "fiscally responsible" budget in New Zealand
- London by-election records Labour's second largest fall in votes
- Sri Lankan unions call off plantation pay campaign
- US Green Party candidate Ralph Nader courts Buchanan supporters
- Why London's Millennium Dome has been a disaster
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 June 2000
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Samira Makhmalbaf addresses Cannes Film Festival forum
"The Digital Revolution and the Future of Cinema" - A comment and clarification on the Napster controversy
- Beijing's WTO concessions signal a new stage in China's capitalist restructuring
- One million working poor cut off Medicaid benefits in US
- Putin's visit to Germany and the redefinition of international relations
- Ruling upholds Miranda rights: deep divisions on the US Supreme Court
- Scottish convictions based on fingerprint evidence called into question
- Sri Lankan artists speak out against the war
29 June 2000
- An assessment of Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life
- Growing hostility to Argentine government's austerity program
- Las Inundaciones de Chile Desenmascaran Falta de Planificación e Infraestructura
- Narrow victory for Mugabe in Zimbabwean elections sets stage for further upheavals
- Obscenity charge dropped against Michigan artist
- Tamil doctor describes suffering in Jaffna
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
30 June 2000
- 13-year-old British boy detained for two years for drug dealing
- Australian backpacker hostel victims had no chance of escaping fire
- Israeli Prime Minister Barak bows to religious fundamentalists' demands to save coalition
- Letters on Amnesty International and the Kosovo War
- Teachers at London school resign en masse following school inspection
- Ten charged in Holland and UK for deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants
- US Congress approves $1.3 billion military package for Colombia
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Media promotes "militant" union faction in Australia
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