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MALAYSIA: PSM holds eighth congress

The Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) held its eighth congress in late May. Over the past period, the party has been involved in campaigns against the privatisation of health care, against the goods and services tax and against the fuel price hike,

Rob Riley, a life lived in the cause of liberation

Rob Riley, an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for JusticeBy Quentin BeresfordAboriginal Studies Press, 2006374 pages, $39.95 REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY Rob Riley was a major leader of Aboriginal Australia whose influence was felt from the streets of Perth,

MONTENEGRO: Majority vote for independence

Michael Karadjis Montenegrins voted for independence for their tiny republic in a referendum on May 21, in a move that essentially formalised an already existing situation. Following the collapse of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia

All out against Work Choices on June 28!

Sue Bolton After much debate within the trade union movement, the ACTU-endorsed June 28 national day of protest against the Howard government's industrial relations laws has finally spread nationwide. After the success of last year's two national

David Hicks — still detained

Dale Mills The Australian government is coming under increasing domestic and international pressure to intervene in the imprisonment of David Hicks at the United States' military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks has now been held there

Write On: Letters to the Editor

Local issues While GLW does an excellent job concerning issues of war and peace and the Work Choices legislation, there are essential local issues that merit additional attention. I am trying to obtain a housing commission flat in Canterbury and

Imperial hypocrisy and manipulation in East Timor crisis

Peter Boyle Commenting on the Australian troop deployment to East Timor on May 31, the Australian's Paul Kelly said, "this intervention is both military and political. Its primary purpose was to respond to East Timor's security crisis ... But this

SUDAN: Washington imposes flawed 'peace' deal

Norm Dixon In the early hours of May 5, the most militarily significant Darfur rebel group — a faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Minni Minnawi — reluctantly accepted a flawed "peace" agreement with Sudan's authoritarian

Students' right to demonstrate

Fred Fuentes Before and on June 1, the day that students around the country protested against Work Choices, the mass media and the NSW education minister, Labor's Carmel Tebbutt, campaigned against high-school students' right to protest, saying

PALESTINE: Talking to Hamas

Alastair Crooke Almost no-one believes that putting Palestinians on a "diet" will make them more moderate or help to restart a political process with Israel. The diet — a term coined by forumer Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's chief of staff, Dov

BOLIVIA: World solidarity needed

Barry Weisleder & John Riddell, Toronto "General jubilation" greeted the Bolivian government's move to take control of the country's hydrocarbon resources on May 1, according to the Cuban daily newspaper Granma. "An impressive multitude [that]

IRAQ: Resistance attacks on British troops escalating

The British military announced on May 29 that two of its soldiers had died in a roadside bomb attack in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, bringing the total number of British military fatalities in May to nine. "The deaths are a clear sign that rebel