Protests by tens of thousands of workers and students have rocked Indonesia since the government of President Abdurrahman Wahid and Megawati Sukarnoputri, under pressure from international creditors, decreed an average 12% increase in the price of
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BY SUE BOLAND
The federal Coalition government, with support from Labor, plans to rush through parliament amendments to the Electoral Act which will make it virtually impossible to register a new political party — unless it has plenty of money.
A new web site has been set up to distribute information about the current crisis in Palestine and build international solidarity with the Palestinian people's struggle for justice. It is the September 2000 Clashes Information Center at
As the Israeli military launched its war on the Palestinian masses protesting against the killings of Palestinians following Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon's provocative visit to the al-Aqsa mosque on September 28, Arabs in Israel took to the
PORT MORESBY — Human rights lawyer and Melanesian Solidarity (Melsol) activist Powes Parkop has warned that West Papua will soon erupt into a more explosive and bloodier war than East Timor.
The Papua New Guinea government must deal with the West
The Palestinian community and other supporters of Palestinians' right to peace and justice mobilised in rallies around Australia over the last week to demand that the Australian government call on Israel stop the killings of Palestinians.
Ray
A few days before the Olympic Games closing ceremony, a private party for many of the Olympic winners was held. After weeks of media reports on how sportswomen were given more respect in these games, reflected in particular during the opening
BY RON BAKER
National conferences are usually the domain of well-established organisations with various reasons to hold a gathering of the faithful. Little on the agenda and a lot on the bill seems to be a common outcome.
Conferences claiming to
BY DANIEL KELLY
SYDNEY — Two hundred members of the Maritime Union of Australia's central NSW branch have backed a sacked union delegate at P&O Port Botany, Dave Hauser, and called on the union's national officials to support his unfair dismissal
Realism
"When you see your soldiers being killed and injured one right after the other, it adds a sense of realism to the drill." — A Japanese army major on a computerised battle simulation.
Decades, sometimes
"It takes time to get troops to
Carnival of the oppressed
Some of us have got together to party. Taking our cue from the S11 protests in Melbourne, we now do theatre in the streets. Of course, you need to recognise that there are many types of theatre.
While we're keen on the
BY SUE BOLAND
"Shareholder activism" is promoted by many environment and human rights groups and trade unions as a new method for achieving social and environmental change. It involves organising an alliance of shareholders to ask questions and
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