Indonesian students and army clash
By Max Lane
Sources in Jakarta report that 50 students demonstrated outside parliament on June 2 following a one-day occupation of their campus by the army.
On May 22, 150 soldiers plus police
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By Max Lane
In May, young people carrying a banner "United Front Against Golf Course Development" demonstrated outside the offices of the minister for youth and sport in Jakarta, leading to a heated polemic in the newspapers.
A private
By Karen Fredericks
The ignorance and sexism evident in judicial comments made in the course of several recent rape cases have spurred a flurry of surprise and concern in the media and amongst politicians. Green Left spoke to feminist
Four years ago the Chinese government sent in soldiers to clear Tiananmen Square of students, workers and other citizens who were demanding democratic reform. While the students and citizens sang the "Internationale", the army attacked. Hundreds
On May 15, some 5000 people marched through the Scottish city of Dundee in solidarity with sacked Timex workers. Two days later 3000 people bused from around Britain to stand on the Timex picket line; several hundred police were there to shepherd
By Anne Casey
Since the beginning of the year, Greenpeace activities have taken on a new direction for the organisation. The Cities and Coasts Campaign was launched with the Rainbow Warrior Solutions Tour, which began in Perth in January.
Opposition to public housing sell-off
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — An attempt to auction a Ministry of Housing home in outer suburban Broadmeadows on May 15 was disrupted by a group of about 40 local residents angry at the sale of
By Ernest Mandel
Since the mid-'70s there has been a worldwide offensive of capital against labour and the toiling masses of the third world. This offensive expresses the sharp deterioration of the relationship of forces at the expense of
South African election date set
By Norm Dixon
South Africa is likely to hold its first non-racial general election next April 27, it was announced on June 3. The African National Congress described the announcement as a vital
By Judith A. Pasimio
Apo Sandawa is the ancestral home of more than 100,000 Lumad (the indigenous people of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines). It is one of the ASEAN Heritage Sites and is also on the United Nations List of National
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