Archive: June 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.
2 June 1998
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Australia
The politics of 'National Sorry Day' - The politics of Australia's 'National Sorry Day'
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WSWS : Español
Un ataque contra los derechos democráticos -
An attack on democratic rights
Former CompuServe executive convicted in Internet censorship case -
Deflation, production cuts and currency turmoil
A sign of things to come - Indonesian regime to retain ban on socialist parties
- Observations from a visit to China
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A spokesman for American militarism and reaction
Barry Goldwater dead at 89 -
Monopoly and the development of computer software
The US government case against Microsoft - Waiting-list for hospital treatment in Britain reaches record level
- The intriguing, the disappointing and the rest - The San Francisco International Film Festival: a look at 25 works - Part I
3 June 1998
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Strike by Air France pilots disrupts preparations for World Cup
Socialist Party denounces pilots' action - British government concerned with Indonesian investments
- 'Deadly Feasts' - A valuable examination of the "Mad Cow" epidemic
- The film Wilde: Additional considerations
- A contribution to discussion on jazz history
- New York City mayor attacks taxi drivers
- Judge drops most charges against union officials who attacked US miners
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Australia:
Workers and farmers outraged by toxic dump
4 June 1998
- Unions signal readiness to settle in Air France strike
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Amidst deepening social crisis
IMF dictates terms to Indonesia - Indian budget sharply increases military spending
- The first image of a possible extrasolar planet
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Six and a half years after the breakup of the USSR
Russian economic crisis vindicates warning by the ICFI -
25 films: the intriguing, the disappointing and the rest
David Walsh looks at the San Francisco film festival
Part II
5 June 1998
- Jospin government threatens to use military to break Air France pilots' strike
- Anti-immigrant measure passed in California
- Reader differs with WSWS review of Apostle
- Reader enjoys LA Confidential review
- An appreciation of discussion of aesthetics
- Reader compliments review of Park Kwang-Su's A Single Spark
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The Stephen Lawrence inquiry
Police cover-up of racist killing unravels in Britain - Reader assesses coverage of workers struggles on WSWS
- The photographer Walter Rosenblum: Some kind of respect
- Readers comment on US school shootings
- Growing demands for the seizure of Suharto's empire
- The Suharto financial dynasty
- Reader: Public software projects provide innovation
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Britain's Labour government issues new policy on trade unions
What is "Fairness at Work" really about? - Reader comments on "The struggle for democracy in Indonesia"
6 June 1998
- Unions desperate to secure a deal in Air France strike
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The Sound of One Hand Clappingwritten and directed by Richard FlanaganThe Boysdirected by Rowan Woods, screenplay by Stephen Sewell
Two Australian films - Workers struggles around the world
- The Starr investigation: a creeping coup d'etat
- Motorola to eliminate 15,000 jobs
- Some interesting films on US television, June 6-12
8 July 1998
9 June 1998
- Asian crisis breaches Australian "firewall"
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David Walsh looks at the San Francisco film festival
Blacklisted film director John Berry honored - Australian government reinforces ties to Indonesian military
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Unrest grows in Indonesia
Habibie pledges to implement IMF program -
Independent counsel escalates attack on democratic rights
Starr seeks overturn of attorney-client privilege - South Korean unions call off national strike
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Management, mayor threaten to break strike
Philadelphia transit workers' walkout continues - An exchange on Australia's "Sorry Day"
- Michigan strike causes parts shortage for GM
10 June 1998
- A note on the Air France struggle -- lessons of the 1989 Australian pilots strike
- Air France strike disrupts World Cup football match
- Strike at GM parts factory shuts assembly plants
- Reader comments on The Boys
- Another incident with Air Force One
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Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi
The theater and its corporate sponsors - Abacha's death fuels crisis in Nigeria
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New budgetary cutbacks
New Zealand dollar dives - Judge threatens supporters of Philadelphia transit strikers
- US courts back General Motors' reduction of retiree benefits
11 June 1998
- Air France pilots' unions end strike
- Historical and social issues behind the Eritrean-Ethiopian border war
- Racist party dominates Australian election
- Experiencing Porgy and Bess
- Arnold Schoenberg on Gershwin
- Arnold Schoenberg on Gershwin
- Labour goverment prosecutes asylum seekers in Britain
- Racists murder black man in Texas
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Metal Center strike in sixth day
New GM strike threat in Flint - Riot police used against students in East London
12 June 1998
- How the Air France deal was reached
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Leaked documents prove government collusion in mass sacking
Unions seek job-cutting deal on Australian waterfront - Former British cabinet minister charged with perjury
- British company leaks deadly gas into residential areas
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A balance sheet of Germany's "Magdeburg model"
The PDS-supported Red-Green coalition in Sachsen-Anhalt - "The situation for refugees is the same as it was under the CDU"
- "With respect to education, the Red-Green government has made a step backwards"
- Second GM strike in Flint, Michigan threatens to close operations of US automaker
13 June 1998
- Multinationals demand that Indonesian President Habibie protect their assets
- A quarter of all schools in Bradford, England set to close
- The murder of James Byrd, Jr. - Racial violence and the social forces in America that fuel it
12 June 1998
13 June 1998
- Indonesian military threatens crackdown on protest
- Workers struggles around the world--13 June 1998
- Workers struggles around the world - Update
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Mayor urges unions to resume talks
Philadelphia transit walkout continues - Sri Lankan government tightens censorship
15 June 1998
- WSWS answers questions on coverage of Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict
- Clinton, Starr and Libertarianism: An exchange
- Bulworth and The Truman Show: The New York Times' Mr. Rothstein responds
- The 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival
- The Truman Show: Further signs of life in Hollywood
16 June 1998
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Recession hits Japan
What's behind global "economic schizophrenia"? - British firefighters strike against cuts and job losses in Essex
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Flint strikes force GM to idle more plants
Global changes in auto industry underlie struggle over jobs - What makes the Celtic Tiger run?
- International labour struggles
- London Underground workers strike
- Globalization book featured at Australian bookstore
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Destabilization campaign targeted White House
Report charges illegal links between Starr and media
17 June 1998
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Nach dem Atomwaffentest von Pakistan
Drohende Kriegsgefahr auf dem indischen Subkontinent - Further moves to privatise education in Australia
- He Got Game: More of Spike Lee's filmmaking
- NATO air maneuvers near Kosovo foreshadow new and wider war in the Balkans
- Strikes threaten to halt GM's North American operations
18 June 1998
- AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies: Some serious questions
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Closure threatened in mining disaster town of Moura
Australian coal union imposes sweeping job cuts -
"Flawed as the Agreement is in parts, it can change the culture of politics here"
Kate Fearon of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition - US Supreme Court ruling: a further blow to legal aid for the poor
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Art Gallery of New South Wales acquires Braque's Le Verre d'Absinthe
A 'new artistic concept of space' - The Starr investigation and the destabilization of the Clinton Administration: Readers respond
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A WSWS report from Belfast
Divergent views on the Northern Ireland Agreement - Paddy Lynn of the Workers Party - "I want to see mainstream politics coming back to Northern Ireland"
- Terry Carling, Northern Ireland Officer of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions - "It is the best thing for investment since the sliced loaf"
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"There has to be unity amongst working class people"
Vincent McKenna, former member of the IRA - Republican leader of US Senate calls homosexuality a "sin"
19 June 1998
- Strike at Canadian paper giant
- US intervention cannot halt Japan breakdown
- Geschichtliche und soziale Hintergründe des eritreisch-äthiopischen Grenzkriegs
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As two-week strike cuts production by 80 percent
GM official threatens to slash more US jobs - Brill article details media role in plot to oust Clinton
- US Senate kills tobacco bill
20 June 1998
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India: the BJP-RSS nexus
Fascistic movement plays critical role in India's ruling coalition -
Das Vorgehen des Sonderermittlers Starr gegen Clinton
Ein schleichender Staatsstreich - Clinton calls for end to GM strike
- Taste of Cherry: An invigorating cinematic experience
19 June 1998
20 June 1998
- Workers struggles around the world--20 June 1998
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Reports document worldwide epidemic
The worst year in history for tuberculosis
23 June 1998
- UAW convention opens as impact of GM strike widens
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Ein Hoch auf den Kleinkrämer
Joschka Fischers Antwort auf die Globalisierung -
Three cheers for small-mindedness!
Joschka Fischer's answer to globalisation
WSWS review of a new book by the leader of Germany's Greens - Dayton GM workers critical of UAW leaders
- Music is international: the film Comedian Harmonists
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Australian report criticises 'casemix' system
Patients suffer under new hospital funding scheme -
Two hundred richest own $1 trillion
Gap between rich and poor is wider than ever - New Zealand slides into recession
24 June 1998
- Case against nine asylum seekers in Britain collapses
- Essex fire fighters take action
- Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco: Life for some in the "very early 1980s"
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As military threatens repression
Strikes break out in Indonesia - Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly take place tomorrow
- Japan's banking crisis: the global implications
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Wisconsin court permits aid to religious schools
The right-wing politics behind school vouchers
25 June 1998
- Clinton's trip to China--shadowed by crisis at home and abroad
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Jobs and conditions destroyed on Australian waterfront
Maritime union deal aids Howard government - Drug-resistant germs: a global crisis
- Britain's Labour government sets minimum wage
26 June 1998
- GM prepares for long strike
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Former US Ambassador Marshall Green dead at 82
A key participant in Indonesian massacre - Army crackdown halts Indonesian union protest
- Alfred Kazin, champion of American literature: An appreciation
- Political police strengthened in Australian state
- US poll shows public disgust with Starr investigation
27 June 1998
- Australian bus drivers demand increased security
- Sydney nurses protest jobs threat
- China: a mounting tide of working class anger
- Supreme Court upholds arts censorship
- French government tank maker to cut one-third of labor force
- Greek bank workers' strike called off
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East Asian financial crisis rocking India
Future of BJP-led government again in doubt - HIV/AIDS epidemic ravages Africa
- Some interesting films on US television, June 27-July 3
- 300,000 march in Rome to demand jobs
- Italian chemical workers block railway line
- Japanese pilots union cancels strike
- Workers struggles around the world -- 27 June 1998
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Book Review: Civilising Global Capital by Mark Latham, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1998
The Political Economy of 'New Labor' - Tentative hospital workers' settlement in New York
- Philadelphia transit strike nears fifth week
- Polish steelworkers under attack
- Quebec nurses' action ruled illegal
- South African government to sack thousands
- Volvo announces job cuts in southern Sweden
- Pictures of the 'floating world'
30 June 1998
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Australian car workers speak on GM strike
"International competitiveness is the program of every government" -
One year since the start of the 'Asian meltdown'
Growing signs of world slump -
Walkout at General Motors enters fourth week
GM's hard line staggers United Auto Workers officials - Economic downturn hits New Zealand
- Philadelphia transit workers continue strike
- Puerto Rican strikes hit phone privatization
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Legal case exposes social chasm in New York
Immigrant workers sue Donald Trump
9 June 1998
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