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  • INDONESIA: Largest May Day rallies since Suharto's fall

    At least 50,000 workers, mostly members of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), joined protests in 19 cities in Sulawesi, Bali, Java and Sumatra. The largest mobilisations were in Medan and the East Java town of

  • CUBA: World Bank head praises achievements

    The socialist island nation of Cuba received praise from an unlikely source on May Day — from James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, one of the chief enforcers of corporate globalisation. Wolfensohn told a news conference

  • BRITAIN: 'Oxford Circus Internment Camp' condemned

    For weeks before May 1, British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, London's mayor Ken Livingstone, the Metropolitan Police and the Britain's capitalist mass media relentlessly demonised and criminalised people intending to peacefully

  • SINGAPORE: Corruption routine government businesses

    Singapore’s People's Action Party government likes to boast that it is tough but “clean”. However, this is a myth. Singapore's corporate life has long being corrupt but few people dare speak out. If you do speak out about

  • May Day greetings

    The following greetings were received by the Democratic Socialist Party to be read out to the M1 rallies across Australia. They have been slightly abridged. Socialist Workers Party, Britain We would like to extend May Day greetings to you from

  • PAKISTAN: Military regime bans May Day rallies

    BY FAROOQ TARIQ& RIZWAN ATTA LAHORE — "If workers want to remember the martyrs of the 1886 uprising of Chicago, they should hold the meetings indoors", stated retired general Moeen Haider, federal interior minister, on April 28. "No-one,

  • May Day around the world

    May 1, the international day of solidarity with the struggles of the working class and the oppressed, was marked by millions of people around the world. In some countries, young militants inspired by the wave of mass

  • SOUTH AFRICA: Former rivals unite to fight ANC attacks

    DURBAN — About 40 kilometres outside Durban is an industrial and farming node called Hammarsdale. It appears suddenly at the end of a short rural road just off the N3 freeway and consists of a grid of streets forming 16 blocks.

  • INDONESIA: Right expands attacks to PRD

    Contrary to many predictions circulating in Jakarta during the last few weeks, the Indonesian capital remained calm after the Golkar-Central Axis-led majority in the House of Representatives voted to censure President Abdurrahman Wahid

  • EAST TIMOR: UN lets Indonesian military off the hook

    DILI — News that Indonesia has formally agreed to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try those responsible for mass murder in East Timor around the period of the 1999 independence referendum was welcomed by Sergio de Mello, head of

  • SCOTLAND: Socialist unity advances

    On May 1, the Socialist Workers Party in Scotland joined the Scottish Socialist Party, an historic development creating a united socialist party in Scotland for the first time in generations. Tommy Sheridan, convener of the SSP, and

  • SOUTH AFRICA: No 'third way' for labour movement

    BY DALE T. McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Prior to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, the labour movement here did not give much thought to the specific political, social and economic role that it might play in the new dispensation. If