Military generals and figures linked to the regime of former dictator Suharto have done well in the first cabinet of newly-elected President Megawati Sukarnoputri, which was announced on August 9.
In a signal move, Sukarnoputri has
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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
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Type "teen jobs" in the findinfo.com search engine, and a good portion of what it turns up will have something to do with teens and blow jobs. The few actual links to job listings talk in glorified terms about "career planning"
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Cuban President Fidel Castro has congratulated the 300,000 people who protested against global capitalism during the July 20-22 summit of G8 leaders in Genoa, Italy, and joked that world leaders might soon have to meet on the
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Companies in the US planned to lay off 205,975 workers in July, 65% more than in June. These new cuts bring the total US job losses so far this year to nearly a million, three times those over the same period last year. Such cuts are
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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
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While they undoubtedly thought that brutality would fix everything, things are only getting worse for Italy's authorities, with ever more condemnations coming from ever wider circles of their violent attempts to put down anti-G8
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As if the World Trade Organisation's Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights agreement wasn't stringent enough, a new study of bilateral trade treaties has found that many contain even stronger protections of corporations'
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At least a dozen students at the University of Papua New Guinea in the capital, Port Moresby, have launched a hunger strike to demand the removal from the country of representatives of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
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One hundred and eighty prisoners are still on hunger strike in Turkey's jails, staying firm despite the deaths of more than 60 hunger strikes since the protest began on October 20. The health of many of the hunger strikers has
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An Italian police officer has confirmed eyewitness reports that the brutal July 21 raid on the headquarters of groups protesting the G8 summit of world leaders in Genoa was an act of vengeance ordered by higher authorities. Speaking
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With elections to the country's first post-occupation Constituent Assembly due on August 30, East Timor's socialists are building up their support across the country and are confident of good results. The Socialist Party of Timor is