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Viva Timor leste! SYDNEY — Australian and East Timorese performers will join forces on July 15 to raise money for much needed medical and humanitarian aid to East Timor in an event organised by the Australia-East Timor Association (AETA). Viva
Aboriginal people paying the price In Canberra, on March 26-27, the Australian National University's Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research convened a conference to assess the Reeves
By Emily Citkowski YOGYAKARTA — More that 80 Indonesian farm workers and organisers met here on June 25-27 to re-establish the National Peasants' Union (STN — Sarakat Tani Nasional). This was the STN's second congress. The founding
The French far-left's campaign in the European election By Stanislav Demidjuk MONTPELLIER — The success of the French far-left Lutte Ouvriere-Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire (LO-LCR) list in the June European elections was a
Kurds protest Ocalan death sentence By Gail Lord More than 150 members of the Kurdish community travelled to Canberra on June 30 to condemn the death sentence imposed by a Turkish security court on the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party,
By Sam King JAKARTA — People's Democratic Party (PRD) activists took to the streets on July 2 to protest the previous day's brutal police attack on a 2000-strong rally outside the offices of the electoral commission (KPU). The 1000
By Edward Said No one can doubt that what has transpired in Kosovo as a result both of Slobodan Milosevic's brutality and the NATO response has made matters a good deal worse than they were before the bombing. The cost in human suffering on all
Correction The article in GLW #365 "Revolutionaries elected to European Parliament" reported that the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) in Italy won six EP seats. In fact, it won four seats. The other two were won by the Party of Italian
By Jo Ellis Pre-revolutionary Cuba was no paradise for gays and lesbians. There were gay bars where homosexual men could meet, but to be a maricone (faggot) was to be a social outcast. Laws made it illegal to be gay and police targeted homosexuals
By Norm Dixon The overwhelming victory by the African National Congress in South Africa's June 2 national and provincial elections was greeted with approval by big business spokespeople. ANC leaders moved quickly after the final results were
NT land rights under attack By Margaret Allum A review of the 1976 Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act released on August 21 contains recommendations which many say are an attempt to extinguish land rights throughout the NT. Building on Land
Cancel all Third World debt! By Zanny Begg In 1992, a memo by the World Bank's chief economist and vice-president Lawrence Summers was leaked to the media. In it Lawrence asked, "Shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty