In Dili, more than 10,000 East Timorese marched through the streets on November 12 in a solemn commemoration of friends and relatives killed in the 1991 massacre by Indonesian troops at the Santa Cruz cemetery. It was the first such commemoration
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Reclaiming the language of East Timor
By Jon Land
Standard Tetum-English DictionaryBy Dr Geoffrey HullAllen and Unwin$24.95 As the transition to independence begins in East Timor, a debate around language is assuming critical importance. What
By Boris Kagarlitsky and Renfrey Clarke
In the East there is a proverb: "Don't brag when you're on your way to war". Russian President Boris Yeltsin's generals have obviously never come across this saying. They still have not won a major battle in
Two arrested at bridge protest
By John Nebauer
ADELAIDE — Builders are preparing to sink pylons for the controversial Hindmarsh Island bridge, sparking a new outbreak of anti-bridge protests. Two people were arrested at a protest near the
The Susan G. Komen race for the cure
By Brandon Astor Jones
I have before me the first page of the D-section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It carries a photograph of Atlanta's Piedmont Avenue. From curb to curb it is covered with
The Wall
What could be more symbolic than thousands of people using their bare hands, chisels and sledgehammers to pull down a wall? Not just any old wall. Not a partition some renovating yuppie decided simply had to go in order to justify the
US blockade aids Iraqi regime
FARIS MAHMOOD, a member of the politburo of the Workers Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) is in Australia until early next year. He spoke to Green Left Weekly's PAUL BENEDEK. In Iraqi-occupied Kurdistan (in the north),
By Jeremy Smith
The federal Coalition government has set its sights on the National Tertiary Education Industry Union as part of its anti-union offensive. The NTEU has suspected for some time that the government will come after it. Industrial
East Timor: defeat or victory for the left?
By Allen Myers
"John Passant's Requiem for the Left" is the title of a peculiar article in the November issue of Workers Online, the internet magazine of the NSW Labor Council. Passant, who describes
The view from Dili
By Max Lane
DILI — Burned-out buildings and people on foot — these were the immediate impressions of East Timor's capital when I arrived on November 4 for a 36-hour visit. Jakarta-backed militias had done enormous damage
Networker: Why prosecute Microsoft?
Why is the US Justice Department engaged in a court battle with Microsoft Corporation, the country's most highly valued company? On November 3, Judge Thomas Jackson attacked Microsoft's conduct toward Netscape,
Casual workers to strike
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — Contract workers at the Victorian state government's Land Titles Office, members of the Australian Services Union (ASU), are planning to strike on November 14 and 15. The workers are
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