Iggy Kim

  • Foreigners and local interpreter detained in Aceh

    On September 11, the Indonesian army in Aceh announced that it had taken into custody two foreigners — Lesley McCulloch, an Australian academic of British citizenship, and Joy-Lee Sadler, a US nurse — and their Acehnese

  • November 14: Protest against WTO & war!

    BY IGGY KIM & NICK EVERETT An "informal" meeting of 25 trade ministers will be hosted by the World Trade Organisation in Sydney on November 14-15. The meeting will be a caucus, involving the advanced capitalist countries plus a handful of the

  • Meeting called to organise against WTO

    SYDNEY — Activists from a wide range of organisations attended a meeting on August 30 to organise action against the World Trade Organisation's "informal" meeting of trade ministers, due to be held in Sydney on November 14-15. This

  • SRI LANKA: Ban on Tamil Tigers lifted

    On September 5, Sri Lanka's government lifted its four-year ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This followed a clash over the issue between the United National Front (UNF) government and President Chandrika

  • Labor Party members discuss refugee policy

    SYDNEY — "If it wasn't for the Tampa, we'd have a Labor government today", former NSW premier Neville Wran told a May 23 Labor for Refugees forum which heard calls for an end to the government's present policy towards asylum seekers.

  • Proposed Asia Pacific Social Forum

    SYDNEY — Following the success of the second World Social Forum at Porto Alegre, Brazil, activists will meet at the second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference to discuss the formation of a regional social forum. The

  • Global solidarity with refugees

    SYDNEY — Refugee rights campaigners across the world have protested against the Australian government’s refugee policy. In Auckland, New Zealand on January 26, activists picketed the Australian consulate. A similar picket is

  • Fighting Australia's exploitative relationship with Asia

    Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor, ASIET, has changed its name to Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific, ASAP. ASIET was at the forefront of the campaigns in support of the East Timorese independence

  • Parties around the world greet conference

    Left parties and activists around the world have enthusiastically welcomed a further step in the international process of socialist renewal and regroupment. The Socialist Alliance's first national conference received 41 greetings of

  • SOUTH KOREA: Strikes follow arrest of union leaders

    The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has called its members out for a one-day national strike on July 5, in a determined response to an unprecedented wave of government repression which has included the arrest of several top union

  • CFMEU stages Korean solidarity action

    SYDNEY — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Engineering Union organised a protest outside the South Korean consulate on June 20, in solidarity with the Korean Construction Transportation Trade Union, which organises

  • Boris Kagarlitsky to speak at Sydney Easter conference

    Renowned Russian Marxist writer and political commentator Boris Kagarlitsky will speak at the Second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, to be held in Sydney, March 29-April 1, 2002. Kagarlitsky was jailed for his