Archive: July 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.
14 July 1998
16 July 1998
1 July 1998
- An interview with film critic Andrew Sarris
- Clinton looks to Beijing to stave off wider financial crisis
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Detroit-area meeting hears eyewitness reports on impact of US-backed sanctions
"The people of Iraq are dying" - Andrew Sarris and American filmmaking
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The train wreck at Eschede, Germany
The terrible cost of privatisation
2 July 1998
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The Eel, directed by Shohei Imamura, screenplay by Daisuke Tengan and Shohei Imamura
A naive answer to some serious questions -
First Love, Last Rites, directed by Jesse Peretz, from a short story by Ian McEwan
A refreshing change from Hollywood's image of youth - GM workers at Ohio brake plants vote to authorize strike
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Mass sackings in South Korea
Hyundai workers strike over layoffs -
Missile attack on Iraq
Danger of new US-made crisis in Persian Gulf - How the auto industry and the UAW have changed
- Economic crisis fuels tensions in Malaysian government
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Police attack march against nonunion contractor
40,000 building workers halt rush hour traffic in Manhattan -
Management firm in concessions demands
Talks fail to end Philadelphia transit walkout - The case of Nathaniel Abraham: background to the prosecution of a child for murder
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Sri Lankan police detain Tamil socialist
SEP member Selliah Rajkumar held for 24 hours
3 July 1998
- China and human rights--rhetoric and reality
- CNN withdraws report on US use of nerve gas in Vietnam War
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Bipartisan line-up against Australian dock workers
Documents reveal Labor's waterfront conspiracy - GM plans to bypass struck plants and resume production of key models
- Correspondence from readers on the GM strike
- Last car plants close in New Zealand
- Out of Sight: Steven Soderbergh makes do, but what does he make?
4 July 1998
- A comment on Boogie Nights
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Letter from a GM worker
"We, the workers, have no voice in the union or in management decisions." - Ford moves to take over Kia Motors
- Workers' struggles around the world - 4 July 1998
- Talks collapse in Philadelphia transit strike
- Welcome to Sarajevo: a shallow look at war in the Balkans
- Some interesting films on US television, July 4-10
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Northern Ireland Assembly opens
Acute social contradictions underlie new political set-up
7 July 1998
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Auto workers around the world speak on General Motors strike in America
"US strike is a warning of what will happen here"
Worker at GM in Australia - Scepticism over Japanese 'bridge bank'
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GM worker in Syracuse writes to WSWS
"The UAW cannot serve both the membership and the corporation" - The media and the New York City construction workers' protest
- Poverty and health in New Zealand
8 July 1998
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Discussions with General Motors strikers in Flint, Michigan
Workers grapple with the impact of globalization - Spain's role as border guard for Fortress Europe
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Lucian Freud: Some New Paintings, Tate Gallery, London, through July 26, 1998
A rare chance to see the recent works of Lucian Freud - GM presses ahead with restructuring plans
- Reader comments on social conditions in Indonesia
- An exchange on "Danger of a new US-made crisis in Persian Gulf"
- Significance of the Green Party: an exchange of letters
- Moscow's anti-crisis program: layoffs, price increases and tax cuts for the wealthy
- Asian crisis blasts through Scotland's "Silicon Glen"
9 July 1998
- Death of Moshood Abiola increases tensions in Nigeria
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David Walsh reviews
Cousin Bette: Poor Balzac - A fascinating human self-portrait
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Victimized miner denounces UMWA witch-hunt
"The International is trying to silence us" - An exchange on the Detroit newspaper strike
- Talks intensify to end GM strikes
- Another mine death in Australia
- Two-day general strike paralyzes Puerto Rico
- US miners' union assaults dissident workers, then moves for their expulsion
- Two letters in response to "A comment on Boogie Nights"
10 July 1998
- Fired journalists say CNN caved in to pressure
- Science, politics and morality
- Wall Street wants settlement that facilitates GM downsizing
- GM worker from upstate New York - "Management and the union have been squeezing more and more out of the workers"
- Britain's Labour government hit by scandal
- Labour's lobbyists in search of a fast buck
9 July 1998
10 July 1998
- Victimized Detroit school bus driver to be reinstated
- 500,000 workers join in Puerto Rican general strike
- Reader discusses third parties in the US
11 July 1998
- Australian politics in turmoil
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Cancer patient in Sofia reports on:
Health care crisis in Bulgaria -
As poverty and unemployment grow
Indonesian regime fires on workers and protesters - IRS overhaul will benefit US business and the rich
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Rising unemployment provokes widespread industrial unrest
Mass strike and rally called in South Korea - Workers' struggles around the world – 11 July 1998
- London-Frankfurt Stock Exchange alliance escalates war for global investment
- The political situation in Nigeria after death of Abacha
- Settlement in Philadelphia transit strike
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45th Sydney Film Festival
Case studies of social breakdown - Some interesting films on US television, July 11-17
13 July 1998
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Fired CNN journalists speak out:
Kissinger, Powell demanded retraction of nerve gas report - Japanese prime minister resigns after stunning election loss
14 July 1998
- GM throws down the gauntlet to auto workers
- Loyalist violence claims three young lives in Northern Ireland
- On the historical and social roots of Orangeism
- On form and content in music
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Sri Lanka
Tamil youth and SEP supporters arrested - Some thoughts on the France 98 World Cup
15 July 1998
- The spectre returns! - A political evaluation of Schwarzbuch des Kommunismus [The Black Book of Communism]
- GM files suit against Flint strike
- NZ firefighters fight mass sackings
- Victimised Australian school teacher dismissed
- What sort of "breakthrough" does I Went Down represent for Irish filmmaking?
16 July 1998
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1937: Stalin's Year of Terror
Book by Vadim Rogovin now available on tape - America West Airlines fined for 41,000 safety violations
- New dinosaur fossils ignite old controversy
- Germany expelling thousands of Bosnian refugees
- Why did CNN retract its nerve gas report? A closer look
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Letters from strikers and other readers:
The GM strike, globalization and the UAW -
Letters from our readers
The General Motors strike and the working class - Unionist violence continues in Northern Ireland
- Social polarisation grows in France under Jospin government
15 July 1998
16 July 1998
17 July 1998
- Wage restraint and privatisation from British Labour government
- Canadian dollar falls to record low
- Impressions of political life in the US
- The Starr investigation and the right wing
16 July 1998
17 July 1998
- Australian warehouse workers face police attacks
- Court threat to General Motors strike
- Another blow to the Howard government
- Indian government threatens to use army to break postal strike
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In-fighting over Hashimoto's replacement
Japanese politics in limbo - Police in Michigan mount a manhunt for anti-Klan demonstrators
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The US Supreme Court's ruling on the NEA
A "chilling effect" on art and democratic rights - How the German government and parties pave the way for the extreme right
18 July 1998
- Student commends WSWS coverage of economic crisis, NEA-AFT merger vote
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Reader comments on the retraction of the CNN "Tailwind" story
"I am increasingly disturbed by how controlled the supposedly 'free' press is in America today" - City University of New York ends open admissions
- Patients cut off waiting lists in Australian hospitals
- Indian postal workers end strike
17 July 1998
18 July 1998
- Police in Michigan mount a manhunt for anti-Klan demonstrators
- An exchange over the Nathaniel Abraham case
- California judge orders man electronically stunned in courtroom
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Who is Laurence Silberman?
The right-wing political career of judge in Secret Service decision -
"Exactly what I have been seeking"
Publisher commends WSWS -
Chief Justice rejects last White House appeal
Secret Service agents begin testimony against Clinton - Some interesting films on US television, July 18-24
21 July 1998
23 July 1998
21 July 1998
- Auto workers turn away from GM-UAW collaboration
- Australian Labor Party says shoot at Indonesian fishing boats
- A whiff of fascism from New York City welfare chief
- Up to 6,000 killed by PNG tidal wave
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National Center for Children in Poverty reports
One in four US children under six live in poverty - IMF protected US banks in Russian bailout
- The old Russia and the new: Yeltsin buries the tsar
22 July 1998
- Buffalo '66: "All my life I've been a lonely boy"
- British GM workers speak on US strike, working conditions
- Student leader commends coverage of James Byrd murder
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Letter to GM strikers from an Australian car worker
"The unions use nationalism to divide the workers"
21 July 1998
22 July 1998
- Student asks about Tiananmen Square
- World Bank warns of disaster in Indonesia
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National Center for Children in Poverty reports
One in four US children under six live in poverty - US isolated at conference on war crimes
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Test case in Australia
Resident fights for release of pollution documents
"The public has the right to know"
23 July 1998
- An exchange of letters on the Mad Cow Disease (BSE) crisis
- The devastation of CUNY: a cynical attack on working class youth
- Greenspan: US central bank will resist a movement for higher wages
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Killer heat wave in southwest US
Death toll high among immigrants, elderly - Homeless Russian boy raised by stray dogs
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Auto layoffs spark general strike call in Korea
Kim Dae Jung detains union leaders - The cover-up of a racist murder in Britain - What the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry has revealed and what it has not
- A reply to a letter "On form and content in music"
- Support won for victimised teacher
24 July 1998
- Australia: Teachers denounce privatisation of migrant language courses
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Blue Moon, written and directed by Ko Yi-cheng
A self-assured experiment in film - An exchange on Bulworth and race and class in America
- Canadian Auto Workers official denounces GM strike
- Fired journalists defend report on nerve gas use in Vietnam War
- The evidence of US nerve gas use in Operation Tailwind
- In response to Why did CNN retract its nerve gas story? A closer look
- In response to an article on the IRS overhaul
- A new rift in New Zealand's government
- Philadelphia transit workers to vote on tentative pact
- Readers commend coverage of PNG tidal wave disaster
- Support for victimised Australian teacher
- Sri Lankan military hid bodies of its Tamil victims in mass graves
- Comments on the Starr-Clinton controversy
25 July 1998
- A letter on Nathaniel Abraham case
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New York lawsuit winds down
Sharpton, lawyers guilty of defamation in Brawley case - America: Two snapshots of the brutal society
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The meaning of Greenspan's testimony
Wall Street demands GM victory in strike -
Green light for mass layoffs
Unions cancel Korean general strike - Workers struggles around the world 25 July 1998
- British media show concern about Labour's closeness to business
- Mexican auto worker: "I would like to help the GM workers win"
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Another death in an Australian coal pit
Hundreds turn out for miner's funeral - Background to PNG disaster: the legacy of colonial domination
- Lack of resources compounds Papua New Guinea tragedy
- British carmaker Rover to cut 1,500 jobs
- Some interesting films on US television, July 25-31
28 July 1998
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Stalinism and the Spartacist League
An exchange on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - Argentine workers launch GM solidarity campaign
- The Capitol shooting as the symptom of a social crisis
- More warehouse strikers arrested in Sydney
- Settlement near in GM strike
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Letters on the struggle of the auto workers
Replies to critics of the GM strike - Australia: Former PM Fraser calls for coalition
- Support from NZ for victimised Australian teacher
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New stage in White House crisis
Starr subpoenas Clinton in Lewinsky investigation
29 July 1998
- On socialism and democracy
- UAW abandons jobs fight at General Motors
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Obuchi's difficulties prompt share plunge
Political instability in Japan - Another comment on form and content in music
- Northwest Airlines workers rebel against machinists' union
- Parents and teachers denounce NZ school closure
- On liberalism and the Democratic Party
- Tiny Rowland: No longer the "Unacceptable Face of Capitalism"
- On the treatment of workers in Singapore
30 July 1998
- Clinton crisis reveals decay of American democracy
- US auto union ends strike on GM's terms
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Interviews
High school students discuss One Nation - Australian students rally against racist party
- Looting and land seizures in Indonesia
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Government cuts prepare rail disaster
Three derailments in Australia - Poetry, soldiers and war
- Labour Government sets out to close Britain's borders to refugees
31 July 1998
- Two more US children face murder charges
- More letters on the GM strike
- Australia: Labor seeks to block pollution documents
- US, Britain block relaxation of Iraq inspections
- Ontario unions bury protest campaign against Harris government
- Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan: Small truths at the expense of big ones
- Attack on Scottish local government workers exposes factional struggle in Labour Party
- Dramatic rise in support for the Scottish National Party
- Demand for release of Sri Lankan detainees
- Kenneth Starr, the American media and the pursuit of "truth"
- TRW announces the closure of 21 plants
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