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By Jennifer Thompson Israeli military experts are helping the Turkish government combat Kurdish separatist guerillas, the French weekly "confidential" newsletter TTU said on March 17. The newsletter, which uses unnamed sources, said Turkey
By Sonny Melencio Protests against the execution of Flor Contemplacion, the Filipina maid hanged in Singapore, escalated across the Philippines even after her burial on March 27. At dawn on that day, urban guerillas from the Alex Boncayao
By Eva Cheng More workers in Japan are likely to lose their jobs or have their pay packets cut as the rise of the yen to new heights encourages Japanese companies to shift more production lines to the Third World, where costs are cheaper.
By Chantal Wynter and Kim Linden MELBOURNE — Eighty people attended a forum on March 14 at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, in association with the reading of Classroom 3A, the testimony of Bosnian rape-camp survivor, Amira S. Elly Varrenti
By Con Gouriotis and Nadya Stani SYDNEY — Watching the decontamination process at the Australian Defence Industries (ADI) site at St Marys is like trying to understand, while digging up a serial killer s victims, how it ever could have
TERESITA CARPIO is an official from the 30,000-strong United Workers of the Philippines (UWP), a trade union federation of mostly women workers, based in Metro-Manila. The federation covers workers from the textile, clothing, footwear and food
Sarcasm anyone? By Brandon Astor Jones "The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea for 30 years." — Woodrow Wilson America's new speaker of the House of Representatives is also a history professor who
By Deepa Fernandes While much is said, written and debated about the current situation of Aboriginal affairs, nothing makes as much of a statement as the opening of the Mangkaja print exhibition at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne on
By Anthony Brown US President Bill Clinton joined a long list of public figures when he recently attacked sole mothers for allegedly bludging off society. In his January State of the Union address, Clinton vowed to track down and penalise
Harassment by other names March 31, in case you missed it, was Secretary's Day. Yet another invention of the creative capitalist market mind which serves to guilt-trip people into buying commodities to make someone else — in this case the
The Campaign Against Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Filipino Women (CAST) is conducting an exposure/study tour to the Philippines from June 19 to July 4. The objectives of the tour are to expose the participants to the realities of the sex trade
Comment by Dave Riley Roger Clarke's brave attempt in the pages of Green Left Weekly to encourage us not to forsake the Labor Party has contributed nothing new to a perennial debate. Roger's gall is his attempt to sweeten the bitter pill of