Archive: March 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 March 2000
- Six-year-old Michigan girl shot and killed in classroom
- Galileo's Daughter: An important contribution to the history of science
- Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters arrested in Washington anti-death penalty protest
- African floods: Western governments' indifference to plight of Mozambique
- New study confirms growing social polarisation in Britain
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An interview with Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lankan filmmaker
"The struggle of the common man for self-dignity is very profound" - Unilever to shed 10 percent of workforce in global restructuring
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Berlin film festival, part 3
The successful depiction of a zeitgeist
Zoe, directed by Maren-Kea Freese -
Berlin film festival:
An interview with the director of Zoe, Maren-Kea Freese
2 March 2000
- Lebanese student writes WSWS about recent protests against Israeli bombings
- More letters on the Amadou Diallo verdict
- Haider's resignation as leader of Austria's Freedom Party: a tactical manoeuvre
- The US elections and the lessons of the Clinton impeachment crisis
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
- Hundreds of residents register for class action against lead smelter pollution in Australia
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The John Lennon revelations:
Was there a high-level MI5 agent in the British Workers Revolutionary Party? - What's behind the split in stockmarket values
3 March 2000
- Promising new insights into early cancer growth
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Berlin Film Festival, part 4
Putting his finger on a wound
Rita's Legends (Die Stille nach dem Schuß) - Walker Evans and photography
- The German state election in Schleswig-Holstein: business as usual?
- Britain refuses asylum to hijacked Afghanis
- Britain's Labour Party celebrates hundredth anniversary amidst gathering storm clouds
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Five days after the Diallo verdict
New York plainclothes cop kills unarmed Bronx man -
State government takes direct control of Olympics
Financial fiasco brewing in Australia over Sydney Olympic Games - Pinochet returns to Chile after Britain halts extradition proceedings
4 March 2000
- Reactionary propositions on March 7 California ballot
- Canada's Liberal government embraces the tax-cutting agenda of big business
- An exchange on socialist planning
- Evidence at Australian rail disaster inquiry reveals chaotic safety system
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Nigeria edges towards civil war
- US: What the shootings in Flint and Wilkinsburg have in common
6 March 2000
- Mr. Death —portrait of a specialist in "humane and dignified" executions
- The Christian right and the Republican Party: the dirty secret of American politics
- Pakistani judge gags ousted prime minister on trial on fabricated charges
- Some background to the incarceration of the mentally ill in the US prison system
7 March 2000
- Boeing imposes last wage offer on striking engineers
- California: a case study in inequality
- Australian dollar in sharp decline
- British Labour government orders private consultants into Yorkshire education authorities
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pontiac panel discussion on censorship and the arts
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WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh's remarks to Pontiac meeting on censorship and the arts
"On what basis should a movement in defense of artistic freedom be founded?" -
New attempt at censorship
Pontiac, Michigan police cite artist for "obscenity" - Domino Sugar workers in New York on strike for more than eight months
- One dead, two missing in Virginia auto parts plant explosion
8 March 2000
- Alberta to switch to "flat" income tax
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Berlin Film Festival, part 5
Beyond the shadow of Milosevic
The Punishment, a documentary film by Goran Rebic - Letters on the recent shootings in the US
- Other letters to the WSWS
- Letters on the Alaska Airlines crash
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US veto on top IMF post
German nominee forced to withdraw - Israeli parliament considers bill legalising torture
- Safety breaches disrupt privatisation of British Nuclear Fuels
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Berlin Film Festival
Interview with Goran Rebic, director of The Punishment - La Exoneración de los Policías de Nueva York: el Tribunal Sancionan el Asesinato de Amadou Diallo
- El Caso de Amadou Diallo: Las Raíces Socio-políticas de la Violencia Policíaca
- Agente de Policía Vestido de Civil Mata a Hombre Desarmado en el Bronx
- Pinochet Regresa a Chile Luego de la Gran Bretaña Ponerle Paro al Proceso de Extradición
- East Timor and Australia's oily politics
9 March 2000
- Bitter political feud between the government and opposition in Bangladesh
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Australia: The NSW teachers' dispute
Parents, teachers and principals deepen their opposition to education cutbacks - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- The Abner Louima case: three New York cops guilty in cover-up of torture
- US-OPEC tensions over rising oil prices
- Kurdish nationalists seek supporting role in Turkish state
- British student arrested under Official Secrets Act
- Police clampdown on South African VW strikers
10 March 2000
- Kerosene baths reveal systemic aged care crisis in Australia
- Chilean government to implement new anti-bail provisions
- Letters to the WSWS
- British government to expand use of drugs to control children's behaviour
- New issue of World Socialist Web Site Review now available
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Shock waves in Austrian cultural and media circles
"It is not just that new Austrian government has no idea of art, they hate it"
Sacked publisher Jochen Jung speaks in Berlin - KLA provocations in Mitrovica and southwest Serbia
- Anatoly Sobchak (1937-2000): leading representative of capitalist "reform" in Russia
11 March 2000
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How the law protects corporate property
Australian businessman Alan Bond walks free from jail -
Is all of this inevitable?
Five films reviewed -
TV documentary exposes devastating toll of sanctions against Iraq
Killing the Children of Iraq—a price worth paying? written and presented by John Pilger - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mazda plans to shed thousands of jobs in Japan
- Protests rock Quebec Youth Summit
- Contest for US presidential nominations ends with March 7 primaries
- Why bad news for workers is good news for Wall Street
13 March 2000
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Berlin Film Festival, part 6
Art and poverty
Russia's Wonder Children, directed by Irene Langemann - Gene therapy trials shut down at University of Pennsylvania following patient death
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Berlin Film Festival
Interview with Irene Langemann, director of Russia's Wonder Children -
The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 1 of a series - Norwegian-sponsored peace initiative in Sri Lanka meets with sceptical reception
14 March 2000
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 2 of a series - Mozambique flood disaster shows legacy of colonial oppression
- British rescue worker tells of missed opportunity to aid Mozambique
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Northwest Airlines fires flight attendants accused of organizing job action
"The company loves to use these intimidation tactics" - Huge security buildup for Sydney Olympics
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After the WTO protests in Seattle
Police build up anti-riot forces in US cities -
Report from a Sri Lankan fishing village—Part One
Fisherman killed in collision with Sri Lankan naval boat
15 March 2000
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Berlin Film Festival, part 7
An onlooker in a world falling apart
Paths In The Night ( Wege in die Nacht), directed by Andreas Kleinert - Britain's Observer newspaper suggests Russian secret service involvement in Moscow bombings
- Letters to the WSWS
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The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 3 of a series - Letter from a reader on Lenin and globalisation
- Norwegian Labour Party, Conservatives and Progress Party oust Bondevik Government
- Nick Beams replies to a reader on Lenin and globalisation
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Report from a Sri Lankan fishing village—Part Two
A big issue is clean drinking water - El Caso Abner Louima: Tres Policías Neoyorquinos Culpables de Encubrir Tortura
- Europe and America compete for British missile contract
16 March 2000
- Hindu extremists stop publication of Indian history volumes
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British documentary substantiates US-KLA collusion in provoking war with Serbia
Related Sunday Times article alleges CIA role - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
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The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 4 of a series - A new round of shootings in the US
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Report from a Sri Lankan fishing village—Part Three
A long history of state intimidation and repression -
A "writer" in name only
Wonder Boys, directed by Curtis Hanson, screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the novel by Michael Chabon
17 March 2000
- British doctors fear mother has passed human BSE disease to baby
- An exchange on the privatisation of public utilities
- A letter on the Los Angeles Police Department scandal
- The history of the former Gestapo concentration camp "Oderblick" in Schwetig/Swiecko
- The report of former forced-labor prisoner Nicholas Livkovsky
- An inside look at the US presidential campaign: Gore's town meeting in Detroit
- Tribune and Times-Mirror combine: US media monopolies grow larger
- Sharif lawyer killed as Pakistani junta cracks down on opposition
- Right-wing victory in Spanish general election
- Victoria de la derecha en las elecciones generales españolas
- Deep divisions in ruling circles as Taiwan goes to the polls
18 March 2000
- Pinochet's return fuels political conflicts in Chile
- The Deutsche Bank/Dresdner Bank merger: a struggle for worldwide market domination
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The filmmakers can't help themselves
Holy Smoke, directed by Jane Campion, written by Jane and Anna Campion - IMF row reveals US-German tensions
- Israel/Palestine talks resume
- US government report reveals growing numbers of children in adult prisons
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Retorno de Pinochet desata conflictos políticos en Chile
20 March 2000
- Australia's BHP restructures in a bid to appease the markets
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A vital and challenging exhibition
Viva la Vida —Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 29 January-30 April - 48-year-old Ohio mother charged for photographing her daughter
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Political issues unresolved in the wake of the Mexico student strike
By Gerardo Nebbia 20 March 2000 - World Water Commission recommends privatisation of water supplies
21 March 2000
- Boeing engineers ratify contract
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Simplifying matters
Erin Brockovich, directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Susannah Grant - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- British Nuclear Fuels accused of deliberately falsifying safety checks
- Teamsters suspend negotiating committee member for opposing concessions to Northwest Airlines
- Papua New Guinea ministers sacked as Australia applies pressure for economic restructuring
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Author of The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World dies
G.E.M. de Ste Croix: A lifelong empathy with the oppressed - Massive rise in university tuition fees proposed for England and Wales
- US government honors one Latin American torturer and frees another
22 March 2000
- Reader comments on Nick Beams' "Marxist internationalism vs. the perspective of radical protest"
- France's education workers strike against Socialist Party government policies
- US interest rate rise to fuel economic policy conflicts
- The killing of Patrick Dorismond: New York police violence escalates in wake of Diallo verdict
- Britain's Sunday Times records spectacular increase in wealth
- Taiwan election result produces political volatility at home and abroad
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The tawdry politics of Tibetan Buddhism
The flight of the Karmapa Lama from Tibet - The "Sanitation" controversy at New York's Whitney Museum: freedom of expression under attack
23 March 2000
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New York denies asthma treatment to homeless children
Federal class action lawsuit filed -
Science, art or carnival sideshow?
The "Human Body Worlds" exhibit in Cologne - German capitalism in transition: globalization and the erosion of "Germany Incorporated"
- Clinton visit to the Indian subcontinent sets a new strategic orientation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Suppressed report raises question of US role in Rwandan civil war
- Australian government's crisis deepens as markets demand full privatisation of Telstra
24 March 2000
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Strike deadline approaches at US Airways
Airline threatens to shut down operations -
Then and now
1900: Art at the Crossroads at the Royal Academy, London - Executions carried out in Virginia, Missouri and Oklahoma
- Former Black Panther leader will fight extradition on murder charge
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Verdict in David Irving case due in two weeks
Libel suit brought by apologist for Nazi role in Holocaust concludes in London - Mental illness and the American dream: Part 1
- Sri Lankan police order female "LTTE suspect" to strip publicly at gunpoint
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Under pressure from Australian government
UN censors human rights findings
25 March 2000
- Letters to the WSWS
- Privatisation of Australian electricity supplies leads to shortages and blackouts
- Indian budget contains huge increase in military spending
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El Escándalo Policíaco de Los Ángeles y sus Raíces Sociales
Segunda Parte : Tercera Parte : Parte Final -
El Escándalo Policíaco de Los Ángeles y sus Raíces Sociales
Primera Parte : Tercera Parte : Parte Final -
El Escándalo de la Policía de Los Ángeles y sus Raíces Sociales
Primera Parte : Segunda Parte : Parte Final - El Escándalo Policíaco de Los Angeles y sus Raíces Sociales
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: libel verdict vs. exposé of Bosnia War propaganda bankrupts independent journal
- Conference organizers direct Mumia Abu-Jamal defense campaign to Democratic Party
- Mental illness and the American Dream: Part 2
- The West courts Russia's Putin
27 March 2000
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US Airways and union reach agreement
Flight attendants speak on issues -
Australia:
Students, teachers and residents protest against suspension of high school principal - Deepa Mehta takes legal action in Indian court to defend film
- US pressure on OPEC meeting to increase oil production
28 March 2000
- This year's Academy Awards ceremony: Hollywood in full view
- An exchange with Frank Brenner and other letters on "Mental illness and the American dream"
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Cyanide spill endangers villagers in Papua New Guinea
- Australia: Alarming death rate among recently released female prisoners
- Toll of killings by Ugandan cult exceeds 400
29 March 2000
- Hostage siege in Baltimore--another American nightmare
- Abuse in the California prison system
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Treading in Haider's footsteps
Germany's CDU veers to the right as state elections approach - An Australian tragedy: mother charged over son's death at poker machine venue
- Nick Beams replies to a reader's question about the law of the falling rate of profit
- Sri Lanka: Inquests fail to charge jailers responsible for the killing of two Tamil detainees
30 March 2000
- Phillips Petroleum plant explosion: the latest in a series of deadly accidents at Houston facility
- Ulster Unionist leader Trimble narrowly defeats leadership challenge
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Music Review: The Melody At Night, With You by Keith Jarrett (ECM 1675)
Piano variations from the American songbook - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- McVeigh interview sheds light on the social roots of the Oklahoma City bombing
- Putin's election as president signals authoritarian turn in Russia
31 March 2000
- Letters to the WSWS
- Class justice in New York: Why the DA failed to aggressively prosecute the cops who killed Diallo
- British Labour government to enforce police access to email encryption
- Australian bank merger signals a new round of job cuts and branch closures
- New York's Mayor Giuliani and the Brooklyn Museum reach a settlement
- An interview with Radu Mihaileanu, the director of Train of Life: "We have to learn to articulate these deep emotions"
- NATO admits to use of radioactive munitions in Yugoslavia
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