BY SAM FROST
Oil giant ExxonMobil's operations in the Indonesian province of Aceh are to be examined by a US court, after 11 Acehnese filed a suit against the company, claiming to have suffered human rights abuses at the hands of military units
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BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — The 350 workers employed by the Marrickville-based car components maker TriStar Steering and Suspension won victory on August 8 in their dispute over pay and the protection of their entitlements. Militant action forced
BY MAX LANE
Militant trade union leader and former political prisoner Dita Sari has been awarded the Raymond Magsaysay Award, considered an Asian Nobel Prize, for being a "leader of new forces in Asia".
The chairperson of the Indonesian National
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
SYDNEY — When 16 solidarity activists, including a number of children, began their occupation of the Colombian consulate on the morning of August 8, they were protesting rampant violations of human rights in the South
These are born in your children. They go fishing. They shake everything out. Once there were men and women who tried to hide history, to bury it in the bed of the sea where they believed sound sleep possible. Their hands were huge but not real. They
Seven years after the African National Congress swept to office on the promise of "a better life for all", the patience of South Africa's working class and poor is wearing thin. Across the country, community organisation and mobilisation is beginning
BY EWAN SAUNDERS & TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — Plans for a massive march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October are gaining momentum, with plans by community groups and environmental and social justice organisations in the CHOGM
BY IGGY KIM
Left parties and activists around the world have enthusiastically welcomed a further step in the international process of socialist renewal and regroupment. The Socialist Alliance's first national conference received 41 greetings of
BY LEIGH HUGHES
CANBERRA — A common lament heard on university campuses around Australia in the last month has been: "Damn, it's the third term." It reflects the level of enthusiasm for the student government election period. Years of
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — As the intifada enters its 11th month, the scale of devastation wrought by Israel's war against the Palestinian people has reached levels unparalleled in the 33-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Since
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