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  • EAST TIMOR: one man's perspective

    East Timor: one man's perspective The DiplomatDirected by Tom ZubryckiProduced by Sally Browning and Wilson da SilvaDistributed by Gil Scrine FilmsChauvel and Valhalla Cinemas, Sydney REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT The Diplomat follows East Timorese

  • RUSSIA: Free trade unions in an unfree country

    OLEG SHEIN from the Russian trade union confederation Zaschita (Workers' Defense) toured Europe in July at the invitation of International Solidarity with Workers in Russia. He was interviewed on July 14 by GREG DROPKIN for LabourNet

  • MALAYSIA: Police beat labour rights advocate

    MALAYSIA: Police beat labour rights advocate KUALA LUMPUR — Well-known labour rights advocate Tian Chua said that two of his vertebrae were fractured after he was kicked heavily in his back by a police officer while being detained at the Jalan

  • MALAYSIA: Penans appeal for international help

    MALAYSIA: Penans appeal for international help More than a hundred Penan people, from various settlements in the interior of Sarawak, have gathered at Long Kevok to stage a non-violent protest against sustained logging activities in their communal

  • GERMANY: Authorities' hypocrisy on racist violence

    GERMANY: Authorities' hypocrisy on racist violence KIEL — After years of racist crimes perpetrated against immigrants and refugees, Germany's establishment is giving the impression that it is finally willing to act to stop it. This follows a bomb

  • EAST TIMOR: Jose Ramos Horta: CNRT will cease to exist'

    EAST TIMOR: Jose Ramos Horta: 'CNRT will cease to exist' EAST TIMOR: Jose Ramos Horta: 'CNRT will cease to exist' DILI — Speaking at a meeting of the just weeks-old East Timor Press Club on August 12, Jose Ramos Horta, vice-president of the

  • AUSTRIA: Haider, Austria and resistance

    Haider, Austria and resistance VIENNA — On August 10, 3000 people gathered outside Government House to take part in the usual Thursday demonstration against the coalition government of the conservative Austrian People's Party (VP)and the extreme

  • UNITED STATES: Major donors to the Democratic convention

    Major donors to the Democratic convention Organisation Total to convention Total soft money, PAC & individual contributions Dems Repubs American International Group $2,000,000 $774,362 $315,162 $456,700 BP Amoco Corp $1,000,000 $1,008,070

  • ASIA: Economy recovers, bound and gagged

    ASIA: Economy recovers, bound and gagged East Asia used to be the Fred Astaire of the world economy until, on a dark night in 1997, it was mugged by the combined crunch of Wall Street currency speculators and the International Monetary Fund. Now,

  • UNITED STATES: LA cops attack convention protesters

    LOS ANGELES — On the night of August 14, cops showed off their months of anti-protest training for the Democratic National Convention. Police shot high-pressure water and pepper spray pellets at protesters on a peaceful, festive march through

  • UNITED STATES: A verdict against racial discrimination

    SAN FRANCISCO — It does happen. Not often enough, but it does take place: a defeat for racial bias and white supremacy. On August 2, in a San Francisco Superior Court room, a jury punished the country's largest wholesale baker with a staggering