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PHILIPPINES: 'Free the KPD 12!'

MANILA — On September 18, the office of the Movement for National Democracy (KPD) was raided by the intelligence service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Twelve KPD leaders and staff were arrested. The raid was led by General Calim

Behind the right's attempt to 'airbrush' genocide

BY SIMON BUTLER The opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games portrayed a shorthand version of Australian history that international visitors and news services would find easy to digest, even if a little bizarre. Aboriginal performers gave way

PAKISTAN: Reinstatement of sugar workers demanded

HYDERABAD — A rally on September 17 demanded the reinstatement of sacked workers at different sugar mills in Sind. The rally, organised by Labour Party Pakistan, started from Beldia Chouk and ended at the Hyderabad Press club building. More than

CZECH REPUBLIC: S26 protests will 'draw attention to injustice'

PRAGUE — Fresh from disrupting the World Economic Forum's summit in Melbourne, the next stop for the anti-capitalism express is Prague, in the Czech Republic, where on September 26 the two major enforcers of corporate globalisation, the

Sexual harassment and the culture of sexism

BY ROSEMARIE GILLESPIE Shane Warne, former vice captain of the Australian cricket team, on hearing of a complaint that he had sexually harassed an English woman, said: "If it had stayed private, it wouldn't have been a mistake". The key word is

EAST TIMOR: CNRT leaders form new social democratic party

DILI — The newest addition to East Timor's political landscape was declared formally at the National Council of Timorese Resistance headquarters on September 20: the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The founders and key leaders of the PSD are

IRAQ: Water supply was deliberately contaminated

The US-led forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water supply system during the 1991 Gulf War — flagrantly breaking the Geneva Convention and causing thousands of civilian deaths — reported the Glasgow Sunday Herald on September 17. Since the war

Hobart activists plan to build on S11

BY BEA BREAR HOBART — "What really happened at S11" was the theme of a September 19 Green Left Weekly public forum and multimedia extravaganza put together by Resistance and Democratic Socialist Party activists returned from the Melbourne

Life of Riley: Mates always

Mates always No matter where you go within the four walls of Australia, the games will be upon you. The nation is saturated. "I still call Australia home" has moved in for the duration, occupying musical fragments inside the head of every mother's

and ain't i a woman?: Funny, we just don't get it

During television coverage of the Olympic Games, the first of three US-only Nike advertisements aired. US TV viewer Brian Anastasi described one of the ads on the AriseAction email discussion list: "[It opens] with a woman taking her shirt off,

Racist attack on use of public space

BY KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — An angry protest against moves by City Council to make the city and North Adelaide a "dry" zone was held at the council meeting on September 18. Chairperson of the Whitmore Square Residents Association, Joyce

S11 a 'watershed' for unions

BY MELANIE SJOBERG The S11 mass protests in Melbourne against the World Economic Forum, September 11-13, united a diverse alliance in condemnation of the neo-liberal economic order. Some of the most significant participants in this alliance were