Archive: November 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.
1 November 1999
- Clinton, Republicans agree to deregulation of US financial system
- Correspondence on the breakdown of the profit system
- Two studies in US underscore importance of early education programs
- Irish journalist wins court battle against police
- Market reform in Russia brings "dire economic situation"
2 November 1999
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Repudiation of Menem era
New Argentine president to deepen austerity policies - Many questions raised by Egyptair Flight 990 crash
- Indian government prevails over truckers' protest to halt fuel price increases
- Plans for second stage of House of Lords reform leaked
- Federal judge rules in favor of Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Pakistani autoworkers wage 18-month struggle against Suzuki
3 November 1999
- Child labour on the increase in Bangladesh
- Protests against the Burmese military junta
- British prisons chief calls for release of two boys imprisoned for killing James Bulger
- Toronto teacher discusses worldwide assault on public education
- New study documents growing chasm between rich and poor in Germany
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 November 1999
- Further major corporate restructurings in Japan
- Michigan murder trial of 13-year-old: Testimony undercuts prosecution case
- All candidates in Niger elections pledge to enforce IMF and World Bank dictates
- Australia's "Republic" referendum reveals mass disaffection
- Hawaii, Seattle: latest shooting rampages in the US
- Sharp turn to the right in Swiss elections
- Michael Portillo emerges as serious challenger for leadership of Britain's Conservatives
5 November 1999
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: From a higher reality to a respect for reality
- Egypt's President Mubarak appoints new prime minister to speed up privatisation
- Voter turnout at record low in off-year US elections
- France's Minister of Finance Strauss-Kahn resigns
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
- Sydney Olympics ticketing fiasco: premium seats reserved for the rich
- Trade talks could "blow up" says US commerce secretary
6 November 1999
- A sign of despair in regional Australia: police siege ends in suicide
- Britain's Labour government cuts disabled benefits and gives tax handout to business
- Europe and the US challenge Russian domination of the Baltic states
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York City police cleared in fatal shooting
- Democrats narrowly retain control of Philadelphia City Hall
- US government preparing for mass arrests in Puerto Rico
- Some interesting films on US television, November 6-12
- The UN in East Timor: all the trappings of a colonial protectorate
8 November 1999
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The unhappiness of youth
David Walsh reviews Boys Don't Cry, directed by Kimberly Pierce - Quebec public sector workers balk at giving unions strike mandate
- Australian university students occupy campus over substandard conditions
- US unemployment figures show decline in job growth and stagnating wages
- Poor health care for Sri Lankan tea plantation workers
9 November 1999
- Michigan begins random drug testing of welfare recipients
- The fraud of the 35-hour workweek in France
- Northern Ireland: Loyalist paramilitaries had security intelligence files
- Investigations belie NATO claims of "ethnic genocide"in Kosovo
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters on the Michigan murder trial of 13-year-old
- Railtrack announces record profits in the aftermath of the British rail disaster
- Defeat for Australian republic referendum highlights social divide
- Sri Lankan soldiers rebel as one army camp after another falls to the LTTE
10 November 1999
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"Stolen generations" court case
Australian government defends forced removal of Aboriginal children -
"Stolen Generations" court case
Children lived in fear of seizure -
Michigan prosecutes 13-year-old as an adult
Closing arguments due in murder trial of Nathaniel Abraham - The Onex-Air Canada struggle: unions pit worker against worker
- Death toll in eastern India cyclone may top 10,000
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"The police investigate the police and they are never prosecuted"
London march protests against deaths in custody - Forensic psychiatrist speaks on the Abraham case: "When Nathaniel needed a system there was no system there for him"
11 November 1999
- Workers and residents in Western Australia suffer health problems from Alcoa's alumina plant
- Britain: Second juror condemns jailing of two boys for the killing of James Bulger
- Clinton's photo-op against poverty
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
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Background to the Nathaniel Abraham case
The origins of the juvenile justice system in America - Mahathir calls early election in Malaysia
- Behind the Microsoft antitrust case: computer giants battle for markets and profits
- Federal appeals court upholds racial profiling by upstate New York police
- Protests against fascist murder in Sweden
- Uruguayan election: Frente Amplio wins plurality in first round
12 November 1999
- Rifts appear in Indonesian regime over Aceh
- Animal Farm: a new version on US television
- Funding crisis shuts hospital emergency wards in Australia's largest city
- Demonstrations to protest Italian government plan to end free access to universities
- Transport strike paralyses Lagos, Nigeria
- Five dead in Flint, Michigan nursing home blast
- The decline of the German Social Democratic Party
13 November 1999
- Rocket, bomb attacks boost US-Afghan tensions
- More plans to deregulate and privatise tertiary education in Australia
- UN war crimes prosecutor confirms much-reduced Kosovo death toll
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Opposition grows to government attacks on public health in Sri Lanka
- After the Truth: An attempt to tackle Germany's past
- US Supreme Court escalates attack on rights of death row prisoners
- Some interesting films on US television, November 13-19
15 November 1999
- Rally opposes murder trial of 13-year-old Michigan child
- Australian steel company leaves deadly toxic legacy
- Election defeat predicted for ruling National Party in New Zealand
- Support falls for major parties in leadup to Taiwan presidential election
16 November 1999
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Gloria Abraham speaks out on the Michigan murder trial of her 13-year-old son
"People need to become aware that the government can do these things" - Angola: MPLA inflicts new defeats on UNITA
- Political turmoil in Sri Lanka as UNP defectors back Kumaratunga
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Australia:
State Labor government seeks to overturn teachers' conditions -
A chilling portrayal of life and death on the front lines of World War One
Harvey Thompson reviews The Trench, directed by William Boyd - Killings of Kosovans continue under NATO occupation at pre-war rate
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- British soldiers executed in First World War denied official pardon
- China-US trade deal to "restructure" Chinese economy
17 November 1999
- Michigan jury finds 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham guilty of second-degree murder
- East Timor: the history and politics of the CNRT
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"It's a tragedy for all of us," says Robin Adams
Shooting victim's mother opposes jailing of 13-year-old defendant in Michigan murder case -
America's ugly face
The Insider, directed by Michael Mann, written by Mann and Eric Roth - Survivors of Korean War massacre by US soldiers seek investigation
- Pakistani political elite supports military regime
- US Supreme Court clears way for first federal execution since 1963
- Labour's "homelessness czar" attacks aid to people forced to sleep outdoors
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Sri Lanka:
Tens of thousands flee in the face of advancing LTTE forces
18 November 1999
- American abortion doctor detained by Australian immigration
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"I have traveled all over the world... but nobody has ever treated me like this"
WSWS interviews Dr Warren Hern - Human rights advocates condemn murder conviction of 13-year-old Michigan child
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The growth of right-wing extremism in Austria
What lies behind the recent successes for Jörg Haider's Freedom Party? - Background to the Russian assault on Chechnya: a power struggle over Caspian oil
- Thousands of Indian cyclone survivors at risk due to official indifference
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
19 November 1999
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Larry Roberts discusses murder trial of 13-year-old Michigan youth
WSWS reporter interviewed on Seattle radio about Nathaniel Abraham case -
A superb exhibit on militarism
Camouflage: An exhibition of paintings and etchings by Chandraguptha Thenuwara - High school students protest in Detroit
- Why the rush to judgment in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990?
- Falun Gong members go on trial in China
- Reflections on the No Gun Ri massacre by a former US serviceman stationed in Korea
- New issue of World Socialist Web Site Review now available
20 November 1999
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Book Review:
Auden's poetry and his last years
Later Auden by Edward Mendelson Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1999 - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Social Democracy at the end of the century: 21st congress meets in Paris
- London inquest into Asian student's death returns open verdict
- Official disinterest over tens of thousands still missing in East Timor
- Some interesting films on US television, November 20-26
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Two examples of the social chasm in America
Fed raises interest rates, White House and Congress strike budget deal - Australia's corporate salaries soar as wages are depressed
22 November 1999
- US intrigues and the imposition of United Nations sanctions on Afghanistan
- Sri Lankan presidential poll: lengthy candidate list reflects growing disaffection
- Lithuanian ministers resign over terms of US buyout of state oil refinery
- Sydney nurses take their concerns to the streets
23 November 1999
- 13-year-old convicted of murder in Michigan: Harsh truths about a repugnant verdict
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The artistic and social significance of the Bauhaus
Former Bauhaus student to speak in Sheffield and Liverpool - WSWS readers comment on Nathaniel Abraham verdict
- Mitchell review of Northern Ireland Agreement proposes new formula to begin devolution
31 December 1969
23 November 1999
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- London pensioner dies of starvation
- Asylum-seekers imprisoned in heat and squalor
- Australian anti-refugee measures flout international law
24 November 1999
- US probe of EgyptAir crash: media brands Arab doubts as "wild speculation"
- State racism in the Czech Republic
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New attack on artistic freedom and democratic rights
Detroit museum shuts down exhibit - WSWS readers comment on EgyptAir Flight 990 disaster
- New York's mayor calls for police crackdown on the homeless
- British steel firm fined over Yemeni worker's death
- LSSP backs Kumaratunga in Sri Lankan election
- Australia: New South Wales Supreme Court begins manslaughter trial of 11-year-old child
25 November 1999
- A conversation with Sri Lankan artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara
- Conservative candidate for London mayor resigns in disgrace
- Mahathir concerned over losses in upcoming Malaysian election
- The battle for Mannesmann: the background to Germany's first hostile take-over
- Pakistan's military regime prepares IMF program
- New Clinton special prosecutor linked to religious fundamentalists
26 November 1999
- Anglo-French summit takes further step towards European military independence from America
- Thai-Burma border reopens after weeks of tension
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Australian state government faces demand for teacher's reinstatement
Test case to be held in Supreme Court - Royal Ulster Constabulary awarded George Cross
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Refugees on hunger strike in New Zealand prison
27 November 1999
- Clinton in Kosovo: rhetoric versus reality
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Social Democrats, union leaders agree to wage cuts, longer work hours for construction workers
German government steps in to rescue Holzmann building company -
Michael Ignatieff in the New York Times
Liberal historian defends the Balkan War against Kosovo "revisionists:" Sophistry in the service of imperialism - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Labour chooses candidates for London Mayor: a process based on manoeuvre and media hype
- Paul Bond reviews Ratcatcher —a film by Lynne Ramsay
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Top AFL-CIO officials, Democrats tied to campaign payoff case
Ex-Teamsters official convicted in union election swindle - Some interesting films on US television, November 27-December 3
- Agendaless in Seattle: WTO talks could become a "fiasco"
29 November 1999
- Australian Greens join Labor to block registration of new parties
- Impressions of the Malaysian elections: little to do with democracy
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PBS documentary: "The Battle Over Citizen Kane"
A revealing look at an old controversy - How today's film industry views Orson Welles
- Human Development report shows worsening poverty in South Asia
30 November 1999
- Indictment of Argentina's military alarms political establishment
- Manslaughter trial of 11-year-old continues in Australian Supreme Court
- Readers respond to comment by Barry Grey on Michael Ignatieff's defense of Kosovo War
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A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies
An exchange of letters on Freudianism and Marxism
A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies -
Ulster Unionists vote narrowly for power-sharing deal
New Northern Ireland Executive to convene this week - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Agreement signed in Istanbul on US-backed Caspian oil pipeline
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Thousands protest at World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle
Political first principles for a movement against global capitalism
18 November 1999
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