BY MAX LANE
Golkar chairperson Akbar Tanjung has accused the People's Democratic Party and two student activist organisations, Forkot and Jarkot, of being behind the burning down of its offices throughout East Java.
Jakarta's main daily, Kompas,
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BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — "The people who stand outside and say they work in the interests of the poorest people ... they make me want to vomit." This is how Mike Moore, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO),
BY BEN REID
MANILA — The leader of the militant BMP trade union federation and prominent leftist, Filemon "Popoy" Lagman, was assassinated on February 6. Four gunmen opened fire while Lagman was visiting the Diliman campus of the University of
BY JIM BRADLEY
February 10 is the 25th anniversary of the start of Australia's longest teachers' strike: the month-long action taken by teachers at Warilla High School, on NSW's south coast, for adequate staffing.
This monumental strike should be
BY SIMON TAYLER
As we drive into Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, the first thing I feel is the place's isolation from the world around it. To the south, only just visible, is the local industrial area — book printers and truck yards.
More than 100 Sydney City Council workers rallied outside the Town Hall on February 8 to protest contracting out of their jobs. The rally was called by the Municipal Employees Union as a warning to the council before the expiry of the workers'
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — More than 500 issues of Student Underground, a new newsletter produced by secondary students which promotes International Women's Day and the May 1 blockade of the city's stock exchange, have been greeted with enthusiasm
BY SEAN HEALY
Ecuadoran President Gustavo Noboa has been forced into a partial backdown on International Monetary Fund-mandated prices rises on fuel and transport after massive countrywide protests by indigenous people and unionists reminiscent of
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
On January 30 more than 500 high school students and 300 urban poor youth, with the help of 15 buses, mobilised in Jakarta for the "Anti-New Order Tour". Organised by the Popular Youth Movement (GPK) and Jabotabek High School
BY GEOFF FRANCIS
HOBART — Environmentalist Sarah Bayne turned herself in to the Hobart magistrates' court on February 6 for non-payment of a $5000 fine imposed in 1998 after she was arrested in a protest at Mother Cummings Peak.
Bayne had
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