World

  • Spotlight on Indonesia and West Papua

    Five people shot dead by police Five people were shot dead by police who were attempting to fend off an attack on a police station in the East Java town of Bondowoso. The Jakarta Post said that, according to police, some 600 people carrying Molotov

  • PAKISTAN: Conference to call for democracy's restoration

    LAHORE — Progressive groups have called a conference for October 12, the first anniversary of the military's takeover of Pakistan, to demand the restoration of democracy. Twenty-five political parties, excluding the religious parties, have been

  • INDONESIA: Peasants march for justice

    JAKARTA — One thousand peasants from various regions of Indonesia rallied and marched here on September 24 to demand government action on human rights and economic justice. Organised by the National Peasants Union (STN), the rally brought

  • RUSSIA: Neo-Nazis attack Jewish school

    Russian activists have appealed for international solidarity and protest after thugs of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity party, armed with metal chains, burst into a school where Jewish children were taking religious lessons in the town of Ryazan,

  • UNITED STATES: CIA admits it recruited top Nazi general

    The Central Intelligence Agency admitted for the first time on September 20 that a high-ranking Nazi general placed his spy ring at the disposal of the US government during the early days of the Cold War. A press release by the US National Archives

  • EAST TIMOR: Documents assert 'we can't block Jakarta'

    The release of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) documents on East Timor for the period 1974-76 has provoked former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and former Australian ambassador to Indonesia Richard Woolcott to try to defend their

  • UNITED STATES: Cops in Cold War time warp

    BOSTON — Protesters who were in Philadelphia would later remember the four burly men — who went by the names Tim, Harry, George and Ryan — as kind of suspicious, not quite fitting the bill as political activists. Still, the men were hard

  • EAST TIMOR: Guarding profits in the Timor Gap

    Negotiations on the future of the Timor Gap Treaty between the Australian government, the United Nations Transitional Administration for East Timor (UNTAET) and East Timorese representatives are set to resume on October 9-11 in Dili. Both the federal

  • IRAQ: Water supply was deliberately contaminated

    The US-led forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water supply system during the 1991 Gulf War — flagrantly breaking the Geneva Convention and causing thousands of civilian deaths — reported the Glasgow Sunday Herald on September 17. Since the war

  • PHILIPPINES: 'Free the KPD 12!'

    MANILA — On September 18, the office of the Movement for National Democracy (KPD) was raided by the intelligence service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Twelve KPD leaders and staff were arrested. The raid was led by General Calim

  • IRAN: Union leader jailed

    The Ministry of Information and security forces of the Iranian government have summoned the president of the Saqqez bakers' union, Mahmoud Salehi, back to prison. Last year, Salehi and four other members of the union were imprisoned for four months

  • EAST TIMOR: CNRT leaders form new social democratic party

    DILI — The newest addition to East Timor's political landscape was declared formally at the National Council of Timorese Resistance headquarters on September 20: the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The founders and key leaders of the PSD are