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  • Indonesia: anti-Suharto protests grow

    Indonesia: anti-Suharto protests grow A few Australian foreign correspondents in Jakarta, such as the Sydney Morning Herald's Louise Williams, are writing about "the mood turning" in Indonesia. Green Left Weekly asked MAX LANE, national

  • South African union appeals for solidarity

    The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has appealed for international support in its struggle against the privatisation of basic services. The union has been waging a bitter fight against the privatisation of water and

  • International campaign to free Nigerian unionists

    International campaign to free Nigerian unionists The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions launched a campaign of "targeted action" on October 20 against Nigerian oil exports to win the release of detained

  • Refounded Communists fumble

    Italy's Refounded Communist Party (PRC) has retreated from opposition to the 1998 budget. LIVIO MAITAN, a member of the party's national leadership, warns that, until it elaborates a strategic alternative to the centre-left ("Olive Tree") government,

  • Asian currency crisis: rescuing the rich

    Massive, dumping of the Thai baht, Philippine peso, Indonesian rupiah and Malaysian ringgit have forced these countries to float their currencies, ending their link with US dollars and slashing their purchasing power by 20-50%. Prices

  • Mexican hurricane spotlights social inequalities

    MEXICO CITY — A week after Mexico's worst storm in recorded history, the country's Pacific coast has barely started picking itself out of the rubble and destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Paulina. The hurricane lashed the

  • Brazilian Indian burned alive

    Brazilian Indian burned aliveA Brazilian judge has caused outrage with an extraordinary ruling in the case of the killing of an Indian, Galdino Jesus dos Santos. On September 29 Judge Sandra de Santis Mello ruled that the charge

  • East Timorese arrested, tortured over bombs

    East Timorese arrested, tortured over bombsIndonesian authorities are believed to be holding up to 13 East Timorese in relation to a cache of bombs and weapons discovered in Dili and the Central Java city of Semarang. The regional

  • Truce signed in Bougainville war

    The second round of peace talks in New Zealand has resulted in a truce between the pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government (BIG), the Port Moresby-appointed Bougainville Transitional Government (BTG) and the Papua New Guinea

  • NGOs push South Pacific Forum for action

    This is an abridged version of the communiqué issued by the third NGO Parallel Forum, held to coincide with the South Pacific Forum meeting in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, September 19-26. The forum brought together Pacific-based non-government

  • Palestinian refugees: 50 years in 'temporary' camps

    BEIRUT — Bourj al Barajneh camp is home to 20,000 Palestinian refugees, crammed into one square kilometre on the southern outskirts of the city. While life in the camp was always challenging, to say the least, the situation

  • Behind the Turkish military's 'soft coup'

    This past northern summer, the Turkish military engineered the collapse of the Welfare Party (RP)-True Path Party (DYP) coalition, supposedly to prevent a "fundamentalist takeover". The military is now on a drive to ban RP. In