The Israeli military's massive November 20 air and sea missile bombardment of heavily populated residential areas in Gaza — which, with the West Bank and east Jerusalem, was invaded by Israel in 1967 — had little to do with
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MAE SOT, Thai-Burma border — Heavily pregnant, Ma Thi Da brings out the plates that she, and 500 other Burmese women, made and then hand-painted in a factory in this border town. They'll fetch a pretty penny in the export markets
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PT Caltex workers go on strike On November 21, 3000 workers at PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia in Pekanbaru, in the South Sumatra province of Riau went on strike to demand a 360% increase in wages and benefits. Recently PT Caltex has been hit by a
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JAKARTA — Demonstrations and protests are a daily feature of life in Indonesia today. "Traffic jam, pak, two demos today" is a common refrain from taxi drivers. The TV news and newspapers are also peppered with reports of different
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On November 21, some 400 East Timorese refugees were repatriated from West Timor. This was the first coordinated return of refugees since the murder of UN workers in the West Timor town of Atambua on September 6. The return of these
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According to the US business magazine Forbes, "There has probably never been a better time for capitalists in modern China", and China's "long-awaited admission soon to the World Trade Organization will galvanize the economy more
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Prime Minister John Howard, under pressure, once described the successive Australian governments' approaches to East Timor as bipartisan wrong policy. Yet this hasn't influenced his views on the self-determination struggle
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AMMAN The outcome of the emergency Arab summit convened to adopt a unified Arab position towards the Palestinian uprising did not come as a surprise to most Arabs. But it was a great disappointment to those who had hoped
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BY TIM GOODEN& SUE BULL DELHI — Workers are locked out of a car manufacturing plant, scabs are brought in and workers are told to sign individual contracts before they can return to work. The new contracts require workers not to participate in
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@head = INDONESIA: Activists plan anti-globalisation conferenceJAKARTA — Leaders of the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation here are preparing a major gathering of activists to discuss strategies to stop the imperialist
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On October 29, 26 million Brazilians voted for municipal governments in cities where no candidate had won an absolute majority after the first round of voting on October 1. Brazil's left-wing Workers Party (PT) won 13 of the 16 cities where it had
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SEOUL — The annual National Workers' Rally, held on the weekend of November 11-12, showed signs that the decline in militancy that has plagued the South Korean labour movement this year is reversing. The leadership of the Korean