UNITED STATES: Protests begin to clarify anti-globalisation debates
WASHINGTON — The militant and youthful protests here, to coincide with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) meeting on April 16-17, dramatised the profound
World
JAKARTA — April 15 marked the first anniversary of the establishment of an extraordinary organisation, the Indonesian Institute for the Study of 1965-1966 Massacre (YPKP). Its chairperson is Sulami, who was second secretary-general of Gerwani (the
Solidarity with Russian workers
A protest vigil called by International Solidarity with Workers in Russia outside the venue of the Russia 2000 Expo in London on April 19. Two days earlier, ISWoR supporters demonstrated against President Vladimir
MANILA — The following is abridged from an appeal issued on April 10 by Erwin M. Gaerlan, executive director of the Moro Human Rights Center. The MHRC has been initiating activities to help put a stop to the worsening war situation in Mindanao
Tunisian activists jailed
Fathi Chamki, president of the RAID (Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions to Assist Citizens, Tunisia), Mohamed Chourabi, member of the RAID and Iheb Heni were arrested and jailed on April 8 in Soliman.
MOSCOW — The Russian Supreme Court on April 13 confirmed the St Petersburg City Court's December 29 acquittal of Aleksandr Nikitin, accused of espionage for writing about the dangers of Russian nuclear submarines.
The appeal by the prosecutor's
PAKISTAN: Labour Party congress a historic moment
LAHORE — There was a tangible political confidence in the hall of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan as 138 delegates and 28 observers from around Pakistan worked hard through four days of
ZIMBABWE: MDC, farm workers Mugabe's real target
Despite the populist rhetoric of President Robert Mugabe — seemingly bolstered by the criticisms and exaggerations of the British Labour government, the Western mass media and, in Australia,
'Let us correct the history of West Papua'
BY MARK ABBERTON
SYDNEY — Representatives of the West Papuan freedom movement, meeting at a conference here on April 19, expressed hope about new openings for greater unity and organisation in their
RUSSIA: Down with the new code of slavery!
MOSCOW — The following call for solidarity, issued last month by the coordinating committee of the All-Russian Campaign in Defence of the Labour Code, is addressed to "all progressive organisations of
SAN FRANCISCO — At a time when the United States' labour movement is in the doldrums, a union of low-paid, largely foreign-born workers is reviving the militancy, imagination, and high morale of the great strikes of the 1930s. On April 3, 8500
On March 31, Petr Aven, head of Russia's largest bank, Alfa, told the British Guardian that Russia needs President Vladimir Putin to come down with the iron-fist of dictatorship to suppress the workers' movement and all opposition to fast-tracking
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