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Archive: August 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 August 2000

• George W. Bush in Philadelphia: the politics of illusion
• How long will Japanese Prime Minister Mori last?
• Sharp rise in arson attacks on British schools
• US ad agencies demand actors unions capitulate
• Under Western pressure, Fiji's military moves against coup leaders
• United Students Against Sweatshops: reformist illusions in the service of the American trade union bureaucracy
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

2 August 2000

• Big job cuts in US bank, auto, oil and retail sectors
• Canada: State witch-hunt of advocates for Toronto's homeless
• Clinton administration plan for FBI spying on email
• Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore pushes "law-and-order" agenda
• New York cops cleared in killing of Patrick Dorismond
• Sydney Film Festival
  Recent films from China: Shower and Seventeen Years
• Rail and air chaos on the eve of the Olympics
  Sydney's transport system places lives at risk

3 August 2000

• Big money flaunts its power at Republican convention
• Fundamentalist anti-evolution candidates defeated in Kansas state election
• México Después de las Elecciones
• Reply to a question on debt
• Tamil Muslims in Sri Lankan refugee camps: Victims of the 17-year civil war
• Tenth Century manuscript provides insights into the works of Archimedes

4 August 2000

• Chilean Supreme Court removes Pinochet's immunity but keeps verdict secret
• Death penalty opponents hold press conference in Philadelphia
• Justifying the role of imperialism in Africa
  Aid to Africa: So Much to Do, So Little Done, by Carol Lancaster
• Over 450 arrested during Republican convention in Philadelphia
• Sri Lankan President tries to push through anti-democratic constitution
• Widespread Ontario water crisis discredits Tories

5 August 2000

• Australian government uses Sydney Olympics to strengthen military powers
• Letters to the WSWS
• Solomon Islands ceasefire could pave the way for Australian troops
• US Christian fundamentalists target Harry Potter books
• US death penalty debate intensifies in aftermath of Graham execution
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

6 August 2000

• Bush addresses the Republican convention: social reaction in "compassionate" garb

7 August 2000

• "Survival agreements" between business and unions in Australia
• Emergency laws used against Pura Handa Kaluwara by Prasanna Vithanage
  Sri Lankan government bans anti-war film

8 August 2000

• How Tavernier's It All Starts Today affected a French village
  "Before we were sad, but the film has changed our lives"
• 87,000 US phone workers strike Verizon Communications
• Bribes, pleas and uproar as Sri Lankan parliament debates new constitution
• Democrat Gore picks Lieberman as running mate: kowtowing to the Republican right
• George W. Bush: the candidate as IPO
• Greek victims of Nazi rule win lawsuit against Berlin
• Hundreds arrested during Republican convention remain in prison
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 August 2000

• European Union widens anti-trust case against Microsoft
• Letters to WSWS
• Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim found guilty in second frame-up trial
• A veteran of the struggle against fascism and Stalinism
  Nathan Steinberger celebrates his 90th birthday in Berlin
• Sri Lankan government crisis deepens as Kumaratunga "postpones" constitutional reform bill
• Sydney Film Festival
  Teaching stories and empty posturing
  Dora Heita and Beau Travail
• Ten years after German reunification: a balance sheet
• WSWS to provide on-the-spot coverage of Democratic Party National Convention

10 August 2000

• ALP National Conference: Doug Cameron and the politics of "fair trade"
• Australian Labor Party conference meets "under the gun"
• Corte Suprema Chilena Despoja a Pinochet de su Inmunidad pero Mantiene el Veredicto Secreto
• US federal probe into United Auto Workers extortion scheme
• US telecommunications workers continue strike against Verizon
• Washington police arrest anti-Iraq sanctions protesters
• West demands release of four accused of spying on Serbia
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

11 August 2000

• Civil war looms in Zimbabwe
• Pinochet loses immunity but Chile's government moves to protect him
• Political factions turn on Indonesian President Wahid
• Right wing violence in Germany and the government's response
• Texas carries out a double execution
• US wildfires worst in 50 years

12 August 2000

• Wireless issue resolved, but key issues remain
  87,000 workers begin second week of strike against Verizon
• A reply to a radical activist in New Zealand
• British media incites lynch-mob atmosphere over child sex abuse
• Clinton's act of contrition
• History and sadness: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Good Men, Good Women
• Hundreds killed by floods in India, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh
• Letter from John Carolan in response to John Braddock's article on New Zealand students
• Over 200 Republican Convention protesters remain in Philadelphia jails
• US Reform Party splits in two
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 August 2000

• British Library throws out thousands of books and historic newspapers
• Buchanan outlines fascistic platform at Reform Party convention
• Discovery of fundamental particle concludes long-standing scientific quest
• Large increase in construction site deaths in UK
• Los Angeles authorities harass Democratic Convention protesters
• US insists on resumption of talks between India and Kashmir separatists

15 August 2000

• Sydney Film Festival
  "The pleasure of seeing should be the moving force"
  A selection of Max Ophuls films
• Democratic Party platform caters to Wall Street
• Hollow Man, hollow indeed
• Report into Australian ski disaster lets developers off the hook
• The human genome project: science, society and superstition
• US and British planes kill Iraqi civilians in weekend bombing raid
• Union rejects contract offer—Verizon Communications workers speak on issues in strike

16 August 2000

• AIDS in Africa: an indictment of an outmoded social order
• Conditions deteriorate for Tamil masses in Jaffna
• Democratic convention highlights social divide in Los Angeles and America
• Firestone recalls millions of tires in US following accident reports
  Ford charges strikebound Illinois plant produced defective radials
• UN raids Serb-run factory in Kosovo to reassert its authority
• Clinton to visit Cartagena
  US intervention heats up Colombian conflict
• US reasserts its interests in Africa, sending troops to Nigeria
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Yahoo! granted reprieve in French court's attempt to block access

17 August 2000

• Australian library workers fight cuts to jobs and services
• Britain: Constant testing increases stress among school pupils
• Clinton's speech to the Democratic convention: toasting success on the eve of the deluge
• Corporate sponsors, Hollywood millionaires shower Democratic convention with money
• Los Angeles police attack protesters at Democratic convention
• Pro-Napster protesters vandalise web sites
• Right-wing historian Ernst Nolte receives the Konrad Adenauer Prize for Science
• Three recent films
  Autumn in New York, directed by Joan Chen, Space Cowboys, directed by Clint Eastwood, Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

18 August 2000

• Among the delegates to the Democratic National Convention: Complacency, conservatism and a few sparks of discontent
• Discovery of nine new planets extends possibility of finding extra terrestrial life
• Executions in Oklahoma and Texas
• LinuxWorld Conference highlights corporate interest in alternative computer operating system
• Release of last protesters arrested during Republican convention
• Republican vice-presidential nominee gets $20 million payoff from US oil company
• Sri Lankan Peoples Alliance regime turns to Sinhala chauvinists
• US: Forced overtime and job security key issues in Verizon strike
• Why the Far Eastern Economic Review has opened its pages to the radical left in Indonesia

19 August 2000

• Amnesty International protests shackling of jailed US scientist
• Sydney Film Festival
  Idle Running: a comic story about a lethargic student
• Israel-Palestine: Barak and Arafat face mounting political opposition
• Letters to the WSWS
• Pinochet Pierde la Inmunidad, Pero el Gobierno Chileno Trata de Protegerlo
• Right-wing conspiracy continues: new grand jury to investigate Clinton
• Rise in juvenile suicides in Britain's prisons
• US job cuts hit truck manufacturing, banking and Internet companies
• Who is watching Big Brother and why?
• Workers Struggles; Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 August 2000

• An inevitable outcome
  Australian court dismisses "Stolen Generations" test case
• Bomb explodes in the middle of Moscow—terrorism and politics in Russia
• Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline gets the go-ahead
• Education and the 2000 elections: Texas miracle debunked
• Intent on securing Western support
  Fiji's regime charges coup leaders with treason

22 August 2000

• "A terrible violation of basic rights"
  Australian film technicians defend Deepa Mehta
• Despite government and IMF opposition
  Bank of Japan lifts interest rates
• Educational testing as a global industry
• Enormes Reducciones en los Sectores Bancarios, Automovilísticos, Petroleros y de Ventas al Detalle
• Gore's newfound populism: an ossified establishment confronts the class chasm in America
• Scientists achieve cellular transformation of bone marrow stem cells into nerve cells
• War crimes tribunal report shows Western powers exaggerated Kosovo victims of ethnic cleansing
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 August 2000

• Dominican death squad sentenced in '75 murder
  Where were the "intellectual authors" of the crime?
• Israeli banks and institutions kept Nazi victims' assets
• One thousand protest death penalty near Pennsylvania's death row
• Putin's "Chernobyl": The tragedy of the Russian submarine disaster in the Barents Sea
• Splits in Peoples Alliance regime as Sri Lanka heads for general election
• Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party to contest general election
• The rise and fall and rise again of John Waters
  Cecil B. Demented, written and directed by John Waters
• Turkish president in conflict with government and military

24 August 2000

• Obituary:
  Erich Mielke—the career of a German Stalinist
• Indonesian parliamentary session marked by collaboration between "reformers" and Suharto's Golkar
• New Zealand rail workers' deaths a result of privatisation and the drive for profit
• Police spies active in protests at Democratic convention
• The enigma of the baroque
• US elections: Gore ticket rushes to reassure big business
• US union leaders split ranks of striking telecom workers
• Ulster Defence Association leader arrested after intra-Loyalist violence in Belfast
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

25 August 2000

• "The right of artists to express themselves is the most sacrosanct right of all"
  A conversation with Indian filmmaker Ketan Mehta
• Basque separatists step up terrorist activities
• Corruption at Paris city hall
• Former British spy David Shayler arrested for breaching Official Secrets Act
• How an Australian discount airline funds its cutprice fares
• Journalists face spying charges in Liberia
• Support for Western military intervention provokes divisions within Amnesty International

26 August 2000

• An exchange of letters on AIDS/HIV
• Canadian Alliance and Bloc Quebecois rubbing shoulders
• Jailed US nuclear scientist granted bail as government case unravels
• As elections approach
  Sri Lankan government exploits allegations of murder and torture against opposition
• Strike at New York's Museum of Modern Art enters fifth month
• The Firestone recall: new evidence implicates Firestone and Ford in tire failures
• The Kurdish Tragedy—PKK activists on trial for murdering a Kurdish couple in Bremen
• US telecom union ends strike at Verizon
• "So many people are on Prozac or sick leave because of stress"
  Verizon striker describes hi-tech speedup
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 August 2000

• India: Shivasena leader Bal Thackery escapes prosecution
• Letters on WSWS coverage of US elections
• Other letters to the WSWS
• Police raid on British prison raises awkward questions
• Record US trade deficit a symptom of deeper economic problems
• The public debate on right-wing violence in Germany
  Politicians, media call for "strong-state tactics"
• Watching the American political conventions: impressions of the uninitiated
  A view from "down under"

29 August 2000

• Australian government seeks to push through revamped military call-out bill
• Eight immigrants die attempting to reach Greece
• New measures against football hooligans undermine civil liberties in Britain
• Ruling party in Mexico suffers another defeat in Chiapas state vote
• The sinking of the Kursk and the crisis of the Russian military
• United Airlines, pilots union reach deal
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

30 August 2000

• BHP makes record profit but the markets are far from satisfied
• Clinton visit inaugurates Colombian intervention
  Wider Andean war feared
• Discovery of Chilean boy's body highlights role of Lagos government's accord with military
• Moscow's Ostankino TV tower goes up in flames
• Neo-Nazis confess to brutal killing of Mozambican in east Germany
• Turkish army kills Kurdish civilians in north Iraq

31 August 2000

• Australian poet Judith Wright (1915-2000): an appreciation
• Detroit police kill deaf mute
• Hostile bid for London Stock Exchange from Sweden's OM Group
• Security preparations in Australia for upcoming World Economic Forum
• Seizure of British troops in Sierra Leone provokes demands for withdrawal
• Welfare report recommends steps to end Australia's postwar social security system
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa