Four years ago on July 27, television images of the Indonesian military bashing and kicking helpless protesters exposed the world to the brutality of the Suharto dictatorship. The Australian government's and the Jakarta lobby's carefully cultivated
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As two of its warships docked in the east Javanese port of Surabaya on July 20, the administration of US President Bill Clinton made official its re-establishment of military ties with Indonesia, after a temporary suspension during last year's
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On the evening of June 1, David Russell, senior solicitor at the British law firm Towells, received an unexpected phone call. Rio Tinto, the world's largest mining corporation, wanted to surrender. Russell was representing former Rio Tinto workers,
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The following statement was issued by Rebwar Ahmad, secretary of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq on July 14. Green Left Weekly readers are urged to respond to the WCPI's urgent appeal for solidarity. On July 14, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
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More than 300 villagers were killed on July 10 in Adeje, near Warri, in Nigeria's Niger Delta region, in a oil pipeline explosion. It was the latest in a string of disasters in the oil-rich region. In May, 27 residents of nearby Okwadjeba village
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Human rights in China have deteriorated sharply, according to Amnesty International, which described Beijing's crackdown on peaceful dissent in 1999 as "the most serious and wide-ranging" in the last 10 years. "Thousands of people were arbitrarily
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ECUADOR: Church calls cops on activists Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia has called on supporters of environmental and social justice to protest against the detention of activists in Ecuador. On July 10, a group of more than 50 peasant,
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MUNYARADZI GWISAI, a member of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) Zimbabwe, was elected to the national parliament in the June 24-25 general election as a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) MP. PETER MANSON, from the British Weekly
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SOUTH AFRICA: Privatisers gets 'Seattled' JOHANNESBURG — Holding up an unexploded orange water balloon like a trophy, South Africa's water and forestry department director-general Mike Muller beamed with relief. He and a gathering of water
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ARGENTINA: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo attacked The following statement was issued by Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo on July 3 to support groups around the world. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo campaigns for the disappeared. In the early hours of
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PAKISTAN: Journalists appeal for help LAHORE — Police raided the Lahore Press Club on July 10 in an attempt to arrest a small traders' leader holding a press conference inside the building. Twenty-four journalists who sought to deny the police
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Spotlight on Indonesia Right to form unions The Indonesia House of Representatives passed a bill on July 10 easing restrictions on workers' right to form unions. The law also allows public servants to form and join unions; for decades they were