BY JON LAND
With elections to the country's first post-occupation Constituent Assembly due on August 30, East Timor's socialists are building up their support across the country and are confident of good results.
The Socialist Party of Timor is
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BY FEDERICO FUENTES
One hundred and eighty prisoners are still on hunger strike in Turkey's jails, staying firm despite the deaths of more than 60 hunger strikes since the protest began on October 20.
The health of many of the hunger strikers has
BY MARINA CARMAN
SYDNEY — "Australasian Correctional Management gets paid $139 a day for each refugee in the detention centres that it runs. And what do the refugees get? Appalling conditions, not enough food or toilets, sedatives, surveillance,
BY BILL MASON
The federal government has been forced to order an overhaul of the Job Network after allegations of "phantom jobs" scams. Guidelines governing the $3 billion labour market program will be tightened and the Productivity Commission will
BY DEANNA SWIFT
GENEVA, Switzerland — Ever since the disastrous "Battle of Seattle" in 1999, the World Trade Organisation has been trying to remake its image, trading in the persona of global tyrant for that of a "hip", "with it" agent of change.
BY JIM GREEN & SEAN HEALY
In just six months as "globocop", United States President George W. Bush has pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, sabotaged the Biological Weapons Convention, sped ahead missile "defence" plans
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Make up your mind 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳. Your editorial on July 25 is headed "Why nobody won in Aston", and then it goes on to say that the Greens' preference policy handed the Liberals a propaganda victory.
Shouldn't your headline then have been:
BY EVA CHENG
Fifty-six years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of people. On August 6, 1991, under the cover of the United Nations, the US did it again — it
The ouster of President Abdurrahman Wahid and his replacement by Megawati Sukarnoputri has opened up a new, and likely volatile, era in Indonesia.
Reprinted here, in abridged form, is an interview with Budiman Sudjatmiko, the prominent and
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — Illawarra TAFE library unionists and their supporters staged two spirited demonstrations against job cuts and work casualisation on August 2. The NSW Labor minister for education, John Aquilina, was in the
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Small Comrades: Revolutionising Childhood in Soviet Russia 1917-1933By Lisa KirschenbaumRoutledgeFalmer, 2001232 pages, $45.10 (pb)
"Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood", proclaimed the poster that hung in
BY SEAN WALSH
MELBOURNE — Anti-Nike protesters have held the most colourful and energetic demonstration this city has seen since the S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum. Swelling to 250 people, the August 3 protest was the 19th weekly
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