Life in prison
A new documentary film examines life and death at the largest maximum security prison in the US
View ArticleThe struggle for democracy in Indonesia
The formal resignation of Suharto has underscored the fact that the problems of political repression, unemployment, poverty, ethnic and religious discrimination and imperialist domination have far...
View ArticleThe elevation of Amien Rais
The leader of the Muslim group Muhammadiyah is being groomed as a replacement for the Suharto regime that can be trusted to defend capitalist interests.
View ArticleA numbing barrage of official propaganda
Richard Tyler, a correspondent for the World Socialist Web Site, travelled recently to Dublin and Belfast to report on the run-up to the May 22 referendum on the Northern Ireland agreement.
View ArticleWorkers struggles around the world
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View ArticleAlienation, adolescence and violence
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View ArticleFrank Lovell, former leader of Socialist Workers Party, dead at 84
Frank Lovell, who died on May 1 at the age of 84, spent some decades in the Trotskyist movement and was a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party in 1938.
View ArticleSupport for agreement mixed with reservations
Reporters for the World Socialist Web Site spoke to Dublin residents on their attitude to the Northern Ireland agreement, interviewing those planning to vote "yes," those undecided and those against....
View ArticleDer Wahlskandal der Teamster-Gewerkschaft und seine Bedeutung für die...
In der amerikanischen Gewerkschaft der Transportarbeiter, der Teamsters Union, haben staatliche Stellen eine Umbesetzung der Führungsspitze veranlaßt. Nachdem vor nahezu sechs Monaten ein...
View ArticleAustralian business and the Indonesian regime
One of the primary reasons for the effusive support given by successive Australian governments -- Liberal and Labor -- to the Jakarta regime is the profit-making of Australian-based companies,...
View ArticleTensions mount between India and Pakistan
Relations between India and Pakistan have rapidly degenerated in the two weeks since the Indian government detonated a nuclear device.
View ArticleStalinism and the rise of the Hindu-chauvinist BJP
The political fallout from the Indian government's detonation of five nuclear devices underscores the urgency of Indian workers adopting a new perspective to counter the Hindu-chauvinist BJP and the...
View ArticleMilitary dominates Habibie's cabinet
Just four days after the resignation of Suharto and the installation of B.J. Habibie as president, the political situation in Indonesia is highly unstable. The real power behind the new regime remains...
View ArticleHabibie's business empire
Reports have begun to emerge detailing some of the business interests of the recently installed Indonesian President Jusuf Habibie. As an intimate protege of Suharto and a senior government minister...
View ArticleA warning from Dr Greenspan
Testimony delivered last week to the US House of Representatives by Federal Reserve Board chief Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin has highlighted growing fears in world financial...
View ArticleA new type of breast cancer drug
At the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Dr Angelo Bianco announced the results of clinical trials, demonstrating the effectiveness on a new type of anti-cancer drug,...
View ArticleA 'vintage year' for Australia's wealthy
The gap between the wealthy few and the vast majority of society in Australia widened further over the last 12 months.
View ArticleA little of John Reed, after all
Bulworth is an angry and politically astute film. Warren Beatty has demonstrated a good deal of courage in making it.
View ArticleHow the rich prospered from the Telstra sale
One revealing feature of the Australian Business Review Weekly's Rich 200 list is the extent to which the top 200 benefitted from the Howard government's sale of one-third of Telstra, the state-owned...
View ArticleKohl zollt Suharto „großen Respekt und Zustimmung"
Mit den Worten „Mein lieber Freund" beginnt das Telegramm von Kanzler Kohl an Suharto, mit dem er zu dessen Rücktritt Stellung nimmt. Weiter heißt es, er nehme dessen Entscheidung „mit großem Respekt...
View ArticleGerman Chancellor Kohl relays to Suharto his "great respect and approval"
"My dear friend"--with these words begins the telegram sent by Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany to Suharto on the occasion of the Indonesian's president's resignation. Kohl goes on to acknowledge...
View ArticleMemories of Sylvia Plath
In his new book of poetry, Ted Hughes considers his relationship to his late wife, the poet Sylvia Plath, and her fate.
View ArticleThe "Erfurt Declaration"--an electoral pact for Schröder
In the run-up to the federal elections in Germany this September, an alliance has been formed calling for a vote for a social democratic government, to be supported in parliament by the Greens and the...
View ArticleEuropean-wide police raids in run-up to World Cup
Following months of surveillance, a series of police raids across five European countries has led to the arrest of 93 people. The French Interior Ministry said the operation was aimed at dismantling "a...
View ArticleOpposition council offers Habibie advice
Key bourgeois opposition figures are propping up Indonesian President Habibie while urging him to call elections within a year and refusing to join his government.
View ArticleHabibie's selective prison releases
An unknown number of political prisoners -- thousands at least -- languish in the Indonesian dictatorship's jails, including those in East Timor and Iran Jaya (West Papua). Whereas the regime and the...
View ArticleEin Wahlverein für Schröder
Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahlen im September hat sich in Deutschland ein loses Bündnis formiert, das für die Wahl einer sozialdemokratischen Regierung und für deren Unterstützung durch PDS und Grüne...
View ArticleA promising breakthrough in cancer research
New research by US medical scientist Dr Judah Folkman into the effect of two drugs, angiostatin and endostatin, on mice may prove to be a significant breakthrough in treating a broad range of cancers...
View ArticleDer Stalinismus und der Aufstieg der chauvinistischen Hindu-Partei BJP
Die politische Ausstrahlung der fünf atomaren Sprengsätze, die von der indischen Regierung gezündet worden sind, unterstreicht die Notwendigkeit, daß sich die indischen Arbeiter eine neue Perspektive...
View ArticleA moving and unconventional love story
This work is a moving, often funny, and stubbornly unconventional love story about a Pakistani taxi-driver and a prostitute set in the north of England.
View ArticleWhat makes the Communist Party of the Philippines Stalinist?
Reply to a readers' question
View ArticleFifty years since Israel's founding
Israel marked the 50th anniversary of its founding under conditions of mounting political and social crisis within the Zionist state and escalating tensions with the Palestinian people in the...
View ArticleYet another police killing in Australia
Police shot and killed a 30-year-old mentally disturbed man in Wollongong, south of Sydney, on May 26.
View ArticleSouth Korean workers demand halt to mass layoffs
Up to 120,000 workers took part in strikes and rallies across South Korea on May 27-28, protesting against the rapid rise of joblessness since the beginning of the year. The official unemployment rate...
View ArticleRecords reveal germ warfare tests conducted in southern Britain
The government releases most official documents in Britain to the Public Record Office after 30 years. To find a document you must search among the hundreds of catalogues listed by government...
View ArticleWhat will it mean for the working class?
The substantial vote to accept the Northern Ireland Agreement in the May 22 referendums in the north and south has been hailed as the start of a new chapter in the troubled history of the island.
View ArticleWilde’s martyrdom in perspective
Brian Gilbert's Wilde, from a script by Julian Mitchell, with Stephen Fry in the leading role, has a certain seriousness about it. This account of Anglo-Irish poet-playwright Oscar Wilde's trials and...
View ArticleGathering war clouds in South Asia
With Pakistan's detonation of a nuclear device May 28, South Asia has been brought to the brink of a fourth Indo-Pakistani war. In justifying its staging of a nuclear test, Pakistan charged that India...
View ArticleOpposition leaders try to shore up Habibie
Opposition figures in Indonesia, including Islamic leader Amien Rais, have cleared the way for President Habibie to attempt to cling to office, heading a thinly veiled military dictatorship, for at...
View ArticleNew York mayor announces layoffs
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced the layoff of 600 hospital workers May 18, only days after the Department of Homeless Services declared that it was cutting 1,000 jobs over the next one or two...
View ArticleBlood money: two exposés of Swiss collaboration with the Nazis
The scandal arising from the abortive attempt of the Union Bank of Switzerland to shred documents relating to Swiss-Nazi financial arrangements has led to a year-long series of revelations,...
View ArticleAn attack on democratic rights
One of the initiatives on the California ballot next Tuesday is the "English for the Children Initiative" or Proposition 227. The stated aim of the measure is to end bilingual education in California's...
View ArticleBereicherungsorgie für Spekulanten
Am segensreichsten wirkte sich die Fusion Daimler-Chrysler für den Milliardär Kirk Kerkorian und ähnliche Börsenspekulanten aus. Kerkorian, der 1990 mit dem Kauf von Chrysler-Aktien begonnen und 1995...
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