Archive: May 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
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'There are no rules in painting'
The break in tradition - La guerra de Yugoslavia intensifica las tensiones políticas en España
- UNICEF report cites declining levels of education and literacy world-wide
5 December 1994
19 June 1995
3 November 1997
1 May 1999
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Readers respond to eyewitness report from Belgrade
"Not all the citizens of the USA are in agreement with the powers-that-be" - Australian government shuts door on aged parents seeking to immigrate
- Ireland: Charges mount of police collusion in murder of civil rights lawyer
- More Tamil mass graves found in Sri Lanka
- Some interesting films on US television, May 1-7
- South Africa police violence caught on film
- US, NATO escalate bombs and propaganda
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Yugoslavia war intensifies political tensions in Spain
3 May 1999
- As it orients towards the Caspian, Washington modifies sanctions against Iran
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Dutch police fire on football fans
Government calls for tougher laws against "hooliganism" - Greece: Antiwar protests intensify
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Congress Party power bid fails
India to hold mid-term elections - Irish government sells off state telecom company
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US rejects talks, intensifies bombing
No joy in Washington over Yugoslavia prisoner release - Sydney hail storm victims face months of misery
4 May 1999
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Tracks, a Sony Music 4-CD boxed set by Bruce Springsteen
Anthology charts Springsteen's musical journey - Australian government makes Kosovar refugees as unwelcome as possible
- London nail-bomber arrested--What shapes the psychology of hate?
- New Zealand government prepares to boost teachers' workload
- Philadelphia teacher considers causes of Colorado school shooting
- School shooting in Canada, wave of "copy-cat" threats in US follow Columbine tragedy
- Thai garment workers appeal for support
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 May 1999
- California executes mentally ill Vietnam veteran
- Former Klan leader Duke narrowly misses runoff in Louisiana congressional vote
- Julie Hiatt Steele obstruction of justice trial opens in US District Court
- May Day rallies hit IMF austerity, Yugoslavia bombing
- New Welsh Assembly designed to promote regional competition rather than democracy
- New fossil find provides important clues to man's prehistory
- The state attorney general and the fate of the Russian president
- Wall Street celebrates stepped-up bombing of Serbia
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The fraud of NATO humanitarianism
What are the reasons for the war in Yugoslavia?
6 May 1999
- Clinton, NATO generals discuss expansion of Yugoslavia war
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Australia:
Health workers falsely blamed for hospital deaths - Indonesian military shoots 31 people dead in Aceh
- Jury hears tale of torture, brutality by New York City police
- Scottish Socialist Party sows national divisions
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David Walsh on the San Francisco International Film Festival--Part 1
The anatomy of melancholy -
Scenes of death and destruction
Victims of tornadoes or victims of bombing? - Workers Struggles: Europe and the Middle East
7 May 1999
- A Conservative Lord warns of global turmoil
- Coronial inquest reveals deadly conditions in Australian trucking industry
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Former SPD chairman's May Day speech creates problems for German government
Lafontaine calls for a stop to the bombing of Yugoslavia - Irish document reveals suspicion of RUC collusion in loyalist killings
- Military seize power in Comoros Islands
- Owner of bombed pharmaceutical plant wins release of assets, Sudan demands compensation
- Playwright Harold Pinter presents a powerful case in opposition to NATO bombardment of Serbia
- Question of investment underlies Scottish election contest
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Review: Emily Kame Kngwarreye retrospective
The Art of the "Dreaming" - The manslaughter trial of a young New York mother--who are the real criminals?
8 May 1999
- An open letter to Clinton from a reader in Greece
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UK elections reveal widespread disaffection with Labour
Coalition rule likely in Scotland and Wales -
David Walsh on the San Francisco International Film Festival--Part 2
Conversations with three filmmakers - NATO's holy war
- Riverside California police cleared of wrongdoing in murder of teenage black girl
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Socialist principles and the war in the Balkans
May Day meetings in London and Berlin oppose war on Yugoslavia - Some interesting films on US television, May 8-14
- The IMF in Yugoslavia: A question and reply
- Timor agreement leaves military in charge of "consultation"
- US escalates terror-bombing of Yugoslav cities
- Unanswered questions in NATO-Russia agreement
- Wider European upheavals will follow NATO attack on Yugoslavia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 May 1999
- How could the bombing of the Chinese embassy have been a mistake?
- Lord Skidelsky's criticism of NATO: the driving forces of "ethical imperialism"
- Mass demonstrations in China express outrage at NATO bombing
11 May 1999
- Africa starvation warning from UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
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Balkan war
Embassy protests reflect deeper currents - German protests condemn NATO onslaught against Serbia
- How is value determined: an exchange with a reader
- London demonstration against the war in the Balkans
- Reader describes impact of NATO bombing on Yugoslavia
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David Walsh on the San Francisco International Film Festival--Part 3
Some films from the Balkans and Africa - UK government proposes longer working hours for junior doctors
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 May 1999
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A reactionary brief for English cultural nationalism
Nor Shall My Sword--The Reinvention of England, by Simon Heffer - A rising toll of industrial deaths and injuries
- Chinese refugee forced to have abortion after deportation from Australia
- Mistrial declared in Julie Hiatt Steele case
- New York Times' venom over release of Yugoslavia POWs
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Postscript to the Starr investigation
Newspaper documents abuses by federal prosecutors - Sri Lanka: LSSP splinters in three as People's Alliance ship begins to sink
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After the bombing of the Belgrade embassy
US media denounces Chinese protests
13 May 1999
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Australia:
A "Goldilocks" budget for the wealthy - Actor Dirk Bogarde dead at 78
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Cancer and social life
Review of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, by Sandra Steingraber -
Chinese embassy bombing escalates political tensions in Britain
Conservatives tell Blair to mount ground war or prepare for defeat - Indonesian garment workers suffer shocking conditions and victimisation
- Rising cost of Britain's war drive to fall on working people
- Tamil plantation youth recount brutal torture by Sri Lankan police
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Amid continuing militia violence
UN threatens to call off East Timor poll - US to train Indonesian police in riot control
14 May 1999
- Congo War Drags On—Uganda and Chad pull out
- First bananas, now beef fuels US-EU trade war
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Kandinsky and the development of a visual language
Kandinsky—Watercolours and other works on paper: An exhibition at the Royal Academy, London until July 4 - New figures show wider than ever pay gulf between US workers and corporate executives
- US Treasury Secretary Rubin's legacy: the unfettered rule of Wall Street
- What really has happened in Kosovo
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
15 May 1999
- German Green party backs Balkan war
- Job figures worsen in Australia—despite economic growth
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Labour-Liberal coalition formed in Scotland
Liberals abandon manifesto pledge for two cabinet posts - NATO cluster bombs kill 100 Albanians in Kosovo: Where is the outrage?
- New York City workers demand better wages and conditions
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David Walsh on the San Francisco International Film Festival--Part 5
Sixteen films, briefly - Some interesting films on US television, May 15-21
- South Korea's "second wave" of strikes winds down
- Vadim Rogovin's contribution to Russian social sciences
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Young Tamil plantation workers arrested on false bombing charges
Parents speak out against their detention and torture
17 May 1999
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Magistrate's verdict overturned
11-year-old child to stand trial for manslaughter in Australia - Lessons of the Spanish-American War, the first US "humanitarian" intervention
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An interview with Professor Robert Hayden
NATO's claim of 100,000 murdered in Kosovo—a rebuttal -
The San Francisco International Film Festival - Part 6
Some older or lesser known films - Teenage sexual ill-health in Britain linked to broader social malaise
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Ex-Stalinists oppose NATO bombing but back UN intervention
The German PDS and the war in Yugoslavia -
After Korisa bomb atrocity
The evolution of a NATO lie -
The social context of a police frame-up
Why we defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
18 May 1999
- A comment on the war by British playwright Harold Pinter
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A postmodernist attack on science
The End of Science, Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age by John Horgan, Little Brown and Company, 1996 - Australian government in disarray after rejection of consumption tax package
- Australian students use Internet to defend threatened media course
- British secret agents named on Internet: Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson accused of leak
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Between the IMF and Russian nationalism
Chernomyrdin, Gazprom and Moscow's role in the Kosovo war - Correspondence on the South Korean strikes
- Further doubt cast on US claims of genocide in Kosovo
- Historian James M. McPherson and the cause of intellectual integrity
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Censorship in the Information Age
How the British government failed to suppress list of MI6 agents - Ontario's June 3 election: a verdict on the Tories' Common Sense Revolution?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 May 1999
- Fiji's military strongman voted out in landslide to the Labour Party
- Gambling: a government bonanza in Australia
- New military coup in Guinea-Bissau leaves one hundred dead
- Petition filed before US Supreme Court for Mumia Abu-Jamal
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An interview with historian James M. McPherson
The Civil War, impeachment then and now, and Lincoln's legacy—Part 1 - UNICEF report cites declining levels of education and literacy world-wide
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Strategic crisis for British imperialism
What's behind Blair's calls for ground war in the Balkans?
20 May 1999
- A revealing report on the super rich
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Unemployment and poverty spirals
Beijing accelerates market reforms as economic growth and investment slows - Election —Conformity, fantasy and "destiny" in middle America
- Michigan students charged with attempted murder in alleged school massacre plot
- Observer newspaper targets playwright Harold Pinter for his criticism of NATO
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An interview with historian James M. McPherson
The Civil War, impeachment then and now and Lincoln's legacy—Part 2 - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Yugoslavia estimates $100 billion in damages from NATO bombing
21 May 1999
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Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
"Fantasy is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders" - A few recent films from the US, and one from Canada
- Italian fishermen injured by unexploded bombs dumped by NATO in the Adriatic Sea
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Missiles hit hospital, embassies
NATO resumes bombing of Belgrade - Sri Lankan SEP picket in defence of political prisoners from plantation area
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An interview with historian James M. McPherson
The Civil War, impeachment then and now and Lincoln's legacy—Part 3 -
The political tasks facing the working class
The Indonesian elections and the struggle for democracy - Unions call off Thai power workers' campaign
- Wave of charter bus accidents sheds light on lack of safety regulation
22 May 1999
- "Citizenship classes" to become compulsory in English schools
- Another attack in British press on prominent NATO critic
- Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok announces resignation of government
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Australia:
Media magnates call for scrapping of ownership restrictions - Signs of disarray in opposition alliance in Indonesian elections
- Some interesting films on US television, May 22-28
- Turkey sentences Kurdish leader to death
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Congress approves $15 billion in military spending
War in the Balkans—a bonanza for weapons industry - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Young mother convicted of criminally negligent homicide in her baby's death
New York authorities victimize the victim
24 May 1999
- Australian manufacturing union presides over massive job losses
- Empty moralizing and tougher juvenile laws follow latest school shooting
- New York City schools crisis continues
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Strange goings-on in Corsica
Police and senior government officials implicated in arson attack - Why is NATO at war with Yugoslavia? World power, oil and gold
- Why is NATO at war with Yugoslavia? World power, oil and gold
25 May 1999
- "Disposable students" removed from schools in Australia
- Britain's Home Secretary to curtail right to jury trial
- Likud routed at polls—vote signals deepening of Israeli crisis
- Los Angeles police kill homeless woman
- South Africa: the fraud of "black empowerment"
- The government crisis in Russia—a comment
- What is behind the dismissal of Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
26 May 1999
- A letter from Indonesia on the upcoming elections
- Britain: Why Labour backbenchers oppose changes in disability benefits
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As the elections draw near
Exposure of Suharto's billions puts Indonesian regime on the defensive -
South Korea:
Government intensifies arrests as union calls off strikes - Kenyan Mau Mau seek compensation from British government
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Letters to the WSWS and replies by David North
NATO's motives: propaganda and reality -
Cities blacked out, water supplies cut
US-NATO bombing targets entire Yugoslav population - University students in Mexico and Chile protest attacks on education
- Why is Turkey supporting the war against Serbia?
27 May 1999
- Automation, the working class and the extraction of surplus value
- China spy scare: The return of the "yellow peril"
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Conflict over World Trade Organisation leadership
Why the US is backing former New Zealand Prime Minister - Documentary on Douglas MacArthur raises issues of contemporary importance
- European elections highlight growth of regionalism
- NATO's public face: Jamie Shea
- Ontario election notebook
- Starr drops threat to retry McDougal, Steele
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"Life is inherently disappointing...."
Sydney Drug Summit recommends legalisation -
The British government and the Kosovar refugees
Labour's milk of human kindness turns sour - Warnings of civil war in East Timor
- Workers Struggles: Europe
28 May 1999
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Fighting escalates in Kashmir
A dangerous confrontation between India and Pakistan - Artistic and intellectual confusion in Lars von Trier's The Idiots
- British government pledges 18,000 troops for Kosovo
- Human rights in Austria: The brutal death of asylum-seeker Markus Omafuma
- Indonesia's ruling party faces collapse of support
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From the horse's mouth
Kissinger exposes lies behind US-NATO war - Milosevic indictment provides pretext for invasion
- NATO's motives and its spokesman
- No answers from finance capital's "wise men"
- World crisis shakes Sri Lankan economy
29 May 1999
- European elections could topple British Conservative Party leader
- How profit equalizes across capitalist industries
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Human rights group charges NATO bombing is war crime
Calls for indictment of British government officials -
David North replies to a reader
Intellectual integrity and claims of Serb genocide -
Former Croatian general has US backing
New KLA leader was responsible for ethnic cleansing - Sharemarket "madness" boosts Australia's wealthy
- Snapshots of a brutal society—one week in America
- Some interesting films on US television, May 29-June 4
- Teamsters carhaulers face strike deadline
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
31 May 1999
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"Bottom's Dream," or, remembrance of things to come
A Midsummer Night's Dream, based on the play by William Shakespeare, directed by Michael Hoffman - Belgium's Flemish fascists, the Vlaams Blok, seek gains in Euro elections
- Louima trial: New York cop pleads guilty to immigrant's torture
- Pakistan: new attacks on democratic rights by Sharif's regime
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