World

  • Israel bombs Lebanon

    RAMALLAH — Fighting has escalated in the last week in areas of southern Lebanon occupied by the Israeli army. Since August 20, Israel has launched four air strikes against forces fighting the occupation. This brings the number

  • El Salvador: FMLN leader visits Australia

    MARIA NAVARETTE, better known as MARIA CHICHILCO, representing the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), has just finished a national speaking tour organised by the Salvadoran community and the Committees in Solidarity with Latin

  • Winston's wine box is empty

    WELLINGTON — Auckland has two great monuments to government: the Obelisk, commemorating Michael Joseph Savage, and the Skytower Casino, commemorating Roger Douglas. Savage was prime minister of the first Labour government,

  • Sri Lankan workers suffer for 'free trade'

    In Sri Lanka's north, the Tamils are suffering because of the government's greed for more land, whereas in the south, the Sinhalese workers are suffering because of the multinationals' greed for more and more profit.

  • US worried by setbacks to Taliban

    Alarm bells are now ringing in Washington and Islamabad, because the Afghanistan opposition forces, led by General Ahmad Shah Masood, have pounded the Taliban out of northern Afghanistan and are on the outskirts of the

  • Brazil privatises oil production

    Brazil privatises oil production On August 6 Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso signed the Petroleum Law, privatising the country's lucrative oil industry. The law ends the monopoly of the state-owned Petrobras over oil

  • Cuban foreign minister addresses festival

    HAVANA — Cuban foreign minister Roberto Robaina addressed the opening session of the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students, held here from July 28 to August 5. The subject of the session was human rights. In his address,

  • The story of the Hibakusha

    GREG OGLE reports on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki peace conferences and rallies in Japan which he attended earlier this month as a representative of the Australian Peace Committee. Justice will only be done for the Hibakusha — the survivors of the US

  • New cabinet foreshadows more repression in Iran

    New cabinet foreshadows more repression in IranThe election of Mohammad Khatami as president of Iran in May was welcomed in many quarters as the victory of "moderation". However, the composition of the proposed cabinet

  • Russia's privatisation wars

    MOSCOW — There was a time, about 1991, when only slightly drunk members of Moscow's liberal intelligentsia would exclaim to you across their kitchen tables that Russia was at last about to become a normal country. Enterprises

  • Letter from the US: Teamsters point the way forward

    Teamsters point the way forwardAt a news conference announcing victory in the 15-day strike against the United Parcel Service, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' president, Ron Carey, hailed the settlement as "a