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JAKARTA — On June 25, the Jakarta Media Centre was packed to overflowing. Former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) and Dita Sari, the most prominent labour movement figure in Indonesia, were going to speak on the

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which covers 10,500 waterfront workers (known as longshoremen) on the US west coast, is headed for a showdown with the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) after the ILWU's

Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat stunned the world yesterday by demanding that the United States hold democratic elections for a new chief executive before it attempts to continue in its role as broker between

The European Union faces an ironic contradiction in coming decades. As birth rates continue to decline, many countries face negative population growth. The EU needs more immigration. Yet the European Council's June 21-22 meeting in

BELGIUM: War criminal escapes prosecutionThe Brussels Court of Appeals ruled on June 26 that a case against Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for war crimes cannot be tried under Belgian law. The case was brought by

SOUTH AFRICA: Sacrificing AIDS victims for corporate profits BY PATRICK BOND  JOHANNESBURG — During the last few days of June, at the same time as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Congress of South African Trade Unions

INDONESIA The IMF: A globalising debate BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — The debate between minister Kwik Kian Gie, who is in charge of the National Economic Planning Board, and the other ministers in President Megawati Sukarnoputri's cabinet

UNITED STATES Enron, WorldCom — there's worse to come BY PETER BOYLE The timing was spectacular. On June 24, US President George Bush delivered a lecture to the Palestinian people about the corrupt and autocratic nature of the elected

SCOTLAND Socialists ready to shock the establishment BY FRANCIS CURRAN  With less than one year until the Scottish Parliament elections, due in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) faces its biggest challenge yet.

Activists “welcomed” the G8 summit, held in Kananaskis, Canada, June 26-28, with a string of anti-corporate protests. On June 26, some 4000 people took part in a three-hour snake march through Calgary, the closest city to Kananaskis. The march

PALESTINE: Operation 'Determined Path' to massacre BY ROHAN PEARCE The expression “peace process” has become increasingly meaningless. As Israel's murderous “Operation Determined Path” continues, and White House pronouncements lose any

HAVANA — Critics continue to say that Cuba is undemocratic, closed off, repressive, and that critical ideas in general are suppressed. An investigation of the education system and the young people in Cuban schools paints a very