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Indonesia, the ISO and sectarianism

Indonesia, the ISO and sectarianism By Graham Matthews BRISBANE — "Indonesia: the revolution continues" was the subject of a pubic meeting organised by the International Socialist Organisation here on April 13. The speaker, ISO leader Terry

Explosion during Maralinga 'clean-up'

Explosion during Maralinga 'clean-up' By Jim Green The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency has revealed that an explosion took place during the clean-up of the Maralinga nuclear bomb site in western South Australia on March

German Greens divided on Balkans conflict

By Jim Green The German Greens, junior partners in the coalition government led by the Social Democratic Party (SPD), are divided over German involvement in NATO air strikes on Serbia and Kosova. The Greens' policy of calling for the dissolution of

Movement against racist police violence grows

By Barry Sheppard For two weeks in the wake of the police's February 4 shooting of Ahmed Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant in New York, daily protests kept the spotlight on police terror against blacks and Hispanics. A mass civil disobedience

Deakin Uni and Coles in private deal

By Jeremy Smith MELBOURNE — Deakin University and Coles New World announced a new private vocational and higher education institution on April 14. Although details of the new "Coles Institute" are sketchy, the announcement signals a new stage in

Mexican resistance strengthening

Mexican resistance strengthening By Phil Hearse MEXICO CITY — A demonstration against electricity privatisation and student fees by up to 250,000 workers, students and masked Zapatistas on March 18 was the high point of a week of struggle which

Good morning Vietnam!

Good morning Vietnam! Good morning, Vietnam! And it's a lovely day here in beautiful downtown Pristina. Wakey wakey, hands off snakey. It's time to rise and shine! Up and at them! It's yours truly on the dial way until 10 this AM today. Yessiree,

May Day: 'The movement is worth more'

For more than 100 years, workers and socialists around the world have seen May Day — May 1 — as the international day of working-class demonstration and action.

Cops bust picket line

Cops bust picket line By John Nebauer ADELAIDE — Six people were arrested on April 22 after police broke a picket line at the site of the proposed Pelican Point power station. Members of Community Action for Pelican Point (CAPP) began the

Loose cannons

Another one? "Give war a chance." — New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, on April 6, calling for the bombing of Serbia to be less "surgical". Life imitates art "BELGRADE — Yugoslavia's film academy announced Saturday that it awarded

Protests against East Timor slaughter

Protests against East Timor slaughter In response to reports that as many as 100 people in East Timor were murdered on April 17 and 18 by anti-independence terror gangs backed by the Indonesian regime, solidarity activists held an emergency night

Burmese leader was no socialist

Burmese leader was no socialist By Myint Zan In an article titled "The Last Fifty Years of Burmese Law: E Maung and Maung" (Law Asia, 1997), Andrew Huxley from London's School of African and Oriental Studies claims that the former president of