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Archive: September 1998

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 September 1998

• A comment on the film reviews in the WSWS
• Amid global economic meltdown
  Australian government calls crisis election
• Market crash portends major political shifts in the United States
• A rude awakening in store after the German elections
  All parties plan rigorous social cuts
• Changes in airline industry behind Northwest pilots strike
• A comment on the WSWS review of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and a reply by David Walsh

31 August 1998

• Socialist Equality Party to stand candidates in Australia

1 September 1998

• Telephone workers union agrees to productivity pay and forced overtime

2 September 1998

• New Release from Mehring Books -- Major Cultural Event
  Art as the Cognition of Life
  By Aleksandr Konstantinovich Voronsky
• Alexander Cockburn on the Clinton crisis:
  Prostration before reaction
• Colombian general served CIA, death squads and drug dealers
• Private armies involved in the Congo war
• "Modern" German Social Democrats - Jost Stollmann--from multimillionaire to future economics minister
• Clinton's transportation secretary intervenes in Northwest pilots' strike
• Minority government installed in New Zealand
• LTTE hunting down socialists
  Redouble efforts to secure release of SEP members
• Amid mounting international criticism
  US backpedals over Sudan raid
• Job cuts fuel giant profits in Australian telecommunications
• Remarks from the translator

3 September 1998

• The market, planning and socialism
• Significant breakthrough in diagnosis of human BSE
• Air Canada pilots strike
• Socialist Equality Party begins election campaign in Germany
• Growing child poverty in Germany
• ILO report predicts:
  Two thirds of Indonesians to be in poverty by mid-1999
• South Korean Hyundai workers rebuff union leaders
• "Tough love" message from Russia's false friends
• First Socialist Equality Party election broadcasts
• Under the Skin, written and directed by Carine Adler
  Bad behavior
• Salesman for a failed system
  Clinton preaches for capitalism in Moscow visit

4 September 1998

• The Northwest, Air Canada strikes and the globalization of the airline industry
• As Colombia devalues currency
  Financial crisis spreads through Latin America
• Reader asks about US bombing of baby milk plant during Gulf war
• British parliament votes to suspend civil liberties
• Intense conflict over Japanese bank "restructuring"
• Thousands of riot police attack Korean workers
• Malaysia erects currency barriers as economy plunges into recession
• Russia descends into economic and political chaos
• Man-made factors revealed in Wollongong storm disaster

5 September 1998

• Prosecutor's murder case against two Chicago boys collapses

4 September 1998

• Workers struggles around the world: 5 September 1998

5 September 1998

• Minnesota governor calls for presidential intervention in Northwest strike
• The German Elections: Letters and e-mails ask more about the Socialist Equality Party and its policies

4 September 1998

• Socialist Equality Party Election Statement '98
  For a socialist alternative

5 September 1998

• War, famine and now pestilence
  Sleeping sickness ravages Central Africa
• Tensions mount over oil-rich Timor
• Some interesting films on US television, September 5-11

8 September 1998

• Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt, published by Harper Collins
  An Irish childhood remembered
• As Congo war continues
  Kabila gains support from UN, South Africa
• Growing fears grip world markets
• Elite opinion and public opinion
  Reflections on the class divide in America
• Australian military readied to intervene in Indonesia
• Lieberman delivers "the most unkindest cut of all"

9 September 1998

• Japanese filmmaker dead at 88
  Akira Kurosawa’s achievement
• George Orwell and the British Foreign Office
• A letter on auto industry job cuts
• Indonesian students demand Habibie's resignation
• Public meeting in Australia condemns LTTE arrest of Sri Lankan socialists
• TB outbreak in New Zealand school
• LTTE arrests two more Tamil socialists
  Labor and civil rights organizations must demand halt to repression of SEP
• A balance sheet of the Yeltsin era

10 September 1998

• "Modern" German Social Democrats
  Wolfgang Clement--Prime Minister of North-Rhine Westphalia
• Australian teachers union leader demands LTTE release Sri Lankan socialists
• Deaths in Australian mines--what produced the killing fields?
  Reply to a letter from the Ulan Miners Support Group
• The "Million Youth March"
  Racist demagogy and police-state repression
• Clinton sends top aide to participate in Northwest talks
• Tory drive to cut teacher jobs and school budgets
  Strikes and lockouts in 7 Ontario school districts
• More letters on Saving Private Ryan
• More comments on the Starr investigation
• Unemployment set to soar in Australia
  A tacit agreement to deny reality

11 September 1998

• On the role of imperialism in Africa
• Settlement reported near in Air Canada strike
• Starr report sets stage for impeachment
  End game in the Clinton crisis

10 September 1998

• An election campaign in the shadow of crisis

11 September 1998

• Letters on the Indonesian crisis
• Unprecedented violence used against Korean workers
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  A banal celebration of ruthlessness
• Was the US missile attack on Sudan justified?
• Sydney's water crisis—a systemic failure

12 September 1998

• A revealing election dispute in Australia
• Police raids and surveillance cameras in Australian schools
• How the social democrats and the Greens have contributed to Germany's social misery
• Northern Ireland's "peace" built on state repression and paramilitary violence
• Workers struggles around the world 12 September 1998
• A political tinderbox in Malaysia
• Pilots union submits to company, presidential pressure
  Northwest agreement abandons wage increases
• "The Al-Shifa factory was not making chemical weapons" - Interview with technical manager of bombed pharmaceutical factory in Sudan
• Some interesting films on US television, September 12-18
• Highest unemployment in Germany during an election since 1933

13 September 1998

• The political meaning of the Starr report
  Spearhead of a right-wing coup

15 September 1998

• Australian election debate:
  Howard and Beazley share common agenda
• Floods threaten 20 million lives in Bangladesh
• Chagall's response to war and revolution
• German unions and the extreme right wing
  Poll shows political affinity
• Japan enters deepest post-war recession
• A question on socialism and communism
• Amnesty International issues urgent appeal on behalf of Sri Lankan socialists
• Mass arrests of legal immigrants in El Paso, Texas
• A query from an Australian reader about the WSWS
• Unions advocate closer collaboration with business as Britain heads into recession

16 September 1998

• A letter and reply on the Kronstadt rebellion
• Text of "Urgent Action Appeal" by Amnesty International
• Setback for Social Democratic Party in Bavarian elections
• "Mad cow disease" could have spread to Britain's sheep
• An interview with dissident US miner Richard Cicci
  "The UMWA International is trying to send a message to all miners: if you disagree with the leadership you will be attacked and driven out of the union"
• Financial scandal threatens to engulf French presidency
• Marxism and the law
• British Trades Union Congress delegates condemn LTTE repression
  International demands mount for release of Tamil socialists
• Economic crisis worsens in New Zealand
• As unemployment skyrockets
  Filipino president declares himself 'pro-business'

17 September 1998

• Clinton grand jury videotape to be made public
  New "dirty tricks" in wake of Starr report
• More signs of recession in US economy
• Correspondence on globalisation and the contradictions of capitalism
• Why have hospitals become dangerous places?
• IMF, Indonesia abolish food subsidies
• Unions derail Ontario teachers' struggle
• What is behind Labour's expulsion of Scottish MP Tommy Graham?
• Starr report increasingly discredited

18 September 1998

• Vadim Rogovin: 1937-1998
  Russian Marxist Historian Dies in Moscow
• Vadim Rogovin: 1937-1998
  Russian Marxist Historian Dies in Moscow
• Global economic turmoil
  Cold water treatment for Clinton plan
• 'User pays' in Australian schools
• Devaluations, soaring interest rates
  Latin America's crisis spells social upheavals
• German election campaign
  Socialist Equality Party on the TV program "The Outsiders"
• Australian Labor Party turns full circle on East Timor
• Blair tells workers that Labour is unable to stop UK job losses

19 September 1998

• A.K. Voronsky's "Art as the Cognition of Life"
  Art as the discovery of truths, large and small
• Growing nervousness over economic crisis
• Why all are silent on the waterfront deal

18 September 1998

• Workers struggles around the world: 19 September 1998

19 September 1998

• How not to fight the right-wing coup in Washington
  The case of Salon magazine
• The right-wing agenda after Clinton
  A look at the measures which might follow impeachment
• Working class organizations, artists and intellectuals demand LTTE release Sri Lankan socialists
• Appeals for the release of the five SEP members in LTTE custody
  A selection from Sri Lanka
• TUC congress in Britain
  Unions put seal on pro-business agenda
• Some interesting films on US television, September 19-25

22 September 1998

• Ford Argentina adds to job cuts sweeping global auto industry
• The collapse of a myth
  BHP share crash hits steelworkers
• Socialism and the environment
• The Force of Giacometti--painter, sculptor
• US-Japan tensions intensify
  Obuchi raises spectre of "war economy"
• Clinton grand jury testimony broadcast by networks
• Anwar's arrest intensifies Malaysia's political instability
• The "programs of prompt action" of the Social Democrats and the Greens
• US officials question official rationale for Sudan missile attack

23 September 1998

• Protest turns back attempt to demolish Detroit art project
• New tests refute US claims
  No nerve gas on Iraqi missiles
• Commentary on the Northern Ireland Agreement - Using and abusing emergency power legislation with the blessing of Sinn Fin/IRA
• Colombo press conference called to press for release of all SEP members - Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party cites reports that LTTE has released three Tamil socialists
• Two reports highlight the growth of global poverty and ill-health
• Patriotism and the Australian tax package
• Statement of SEP (Sri Lanka) General Secretary Wije Dias on status of Tamil socialists held by the LTTE
• Public Housing, directed, edited and produced by Frederick Wiseman
  A look at Chicago's poor: "Drama in ordinary experiences"

24 September 1998

• New York City events to launch Art as the Cognition of Life by A.K. Voronsky
  New Mehring Books title to be featured at book signings, book fair
• The crisis in the Balkans intensifies
  Bloody disturbances in Albania
• A reactionary consensus on 'work-for-the-dole'
• Human Rights Watch demands release of Tamil socialists held by the LTTE
• Economic and social crisis in Mexico
  President Zedillo slashes budget
• Mandela government sends invasion force to Lesotho
• A comment on international entertainers' appeal
  Does opposition to Starr mean support for Clinton?
• David Walsh at the Toronto International Film Festival
• US Senate kills bill to raise minimum wage

25 September 1998

• Clinton crisis exposes Blair's "Third Way"
• Crisis meeting on Wall Street
  Emergency bailout for bond market speculator
• On the social crisis in Japan
• Fourth Tamil socialist reportedly released by LTTE
• School students strike against New Zealand funding scheme
• Copper smelter case proves government cover-up
  Why the recommendations of the Workers Inquiry must be implemented
• Tamil masses in the north of Sri Lanka protest cuts in food rations
• Striking images, but a misleading interpretation

24 September 1998

• Basque separatist ETA offers unconditional cease-fire

26 September 1998

• California court supports cover-up of prison brutality
• Unemployment growing by millions says ILO report
• Four thousand jobs cut in Britain
• New support in Britain for campaign against LTTE's persecution of Tamil socialists
• Ontario Tories to legislate end to teacher strikes
• Two months since Philadelphia strike
  Transit workers still without contract
• Millions languish in poverty, US report shows
• German elections
  Interview with Socialist Equality Party candidates
• Swedish Social Democrats battered in election
• Some interesting films on US television, September 26-October 2

29 September 1998

• US Senate bill tightens screws on debtors
• Blair government tells poor to fend for themselves
• Dissatisfaction dominates Australian election
• "By thinking in images the artist cognizes the world in order to change it"
  Remarks by Frederick Choate, translator of Art as the Cognition of Life, at New York City book signing
• Gas blast paralyses Australian state
  Job cuts revealed as possible cause
• The German elections
  A change of power in Bonn
• Biggest ever Japanese bankruptcy
• New York City events introduce Aleksandr Voronsky's Art as the Cognition of Life
  Book signings and book fair feature new Mehring Books title
• Philippine Airlines collapses
• David Walsh reviews the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival
  (First in a series of articles)

30 September 1998

• Layoffs mount as global slump hits US
  Gillette to slash 4,700 jobs
• What the NEC elections reveal
  Damage control at start of Labour Party Conference in Britain
• Letters from readers on the Starr investigation
• Labour Government set to ration healthcare
• New Zealand officially in recession
• Seven days in January--A chronology of Kenneth Starr's coup