World

  • Anger as massacre generals acquitted

    "I have no confidence there can be justice in South Africa", Mbusi Ntuli said bitterly following the October 11 acquittal of former apartheid regime defence minister Magnus Malan and other senior police and security force officers

  • Miriung's murderer named

    Witnesses have linked the murderer of Bougainville Transitional Government Premier Theodore Miriung to the pro-PNG "Resistance" groups. Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) commander Sam Kauona has also named the person he believes

  • Hungary 1956

    This month is the 40th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, a crucial event in the development of the crisis of international Stalinism. PHIL HEARSE explains. At dawn on November 4, Russian tanks, which had withdrawn from Budapest after the first

  • Russian coal miners call strike

    Russian coal miners call strike An national strike has been called for November 5 by the Russian miners' union ROSUGLEPROF. At issue is the growing wage debt owed to Russia's miners. Already massive, the debt has soared by 89% since January.

  • The Israeli economy and Middle East peace

    For several years US and Israeli capitalists have been pursuing a policy of economic liberalisation aimed at further opening the Middle East to Western business. To further this strategic aim — achieving a complete economic

  • Permaculture in Palestine

    SYDNEY — Two Palestinians visiting from the Ma'an Development Centre based in Ramallah in the West Bank spoke at a public meeting organised by the ACTU overseas aid organisation, APHEDA, on October 15. Among other community

  • Right wing tries to rig Nicaraguan elections

    MANAGUA — Nicaragua's recent elections have been marred by scandal, chaos and accusations of fraud which have called into question the apparent victory, 49% to 38%, of the right-wing candidate, Arnoldo Aléman, over

  • New Zealand politics breaks new ground

    NEW ZEALAND — On October 12, New Zealand held its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system. Expanding from 99 to 120 seats, the NZ parliament now consists of 65 constituency MPs and 55 list MPs. Parties'

  • Communists gain in Japanese election

    Japan's main capitalist party, the Liberal Democratic Party, gained ground in the October 20 lower house election, increasing its seats from 211 in a 493-seat house to 239 out of 500. The gain is not big enough for a working majority,

  • US whips up fears of North Korea

    Tension on the Korean peninsula is on the rise following alleged North Korean spying activities in South Korea. Seoul on September 19 presented a small North Korean submarine, apparently abandoned after running aground, and 18 bodies

  • Tongan MP, journalists freed

    Tongan pro-democracy MP and publisher 'Akilisi Pohiva and two newspaper editors walked free after the supreme court on October 14 ruled that they had been detained illegally. The three had served three weeks of a 30-day sentence.

  • PNGDF may be linked to Miriung assassination

    The pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government has denied involvement in the murder of the Port Moresby-appointed premier of Bougainville, Theodore Miriung. BIG spokespeople believe that, in the light of tensions between Miriung