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  • Philippines government tries to frame Lagman, BMP

    MANILA — The Ramos government has ordered the "neutralisation" of the "Lagman group", which it claims is out to sabotage the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, to be held here in November. Apparently a report

  • Australian executives charged

    Two senior Australian executives of a Canadian copper mining company operating on the central Philippines island of Marinduque have been charged with criminal negligence over a disastrous mine tailings accident. A massive pipe rupture

  • Letter from the US: Clinton's 'anti-terrorism' bill

    Clinton's 'anti-terrorism' bill Seizing upon the explosion of TWA flight 800 and the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics, President Clinton is seeking broader police powers that undermine democratic rights. In the wake of the bombing of a federal

  • Foreign backers of the Burmese dictatorship

    Foreign backers of the Burmese dictatorshipDespite its notoriously brutal rule since the bloody repression of a 1 million-strong national uprising in August 1988, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) military regime

  • BRA blunts PNG offensive

    The Papua New Guinea government's highly publicised military offensive to "flush out" pro-independence rebels of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army from their strongholds in central and southern Bougainville has been stalled. Strong

  • West Papuans forced out by PNG government

    The Papua New Guinea government has agreed to cooperate with Indonesia to return 3500 West Papuan refugees, who have already rejected voluntary repatriation. An agreement between PNG's foreign minister, Kilroy Genia, and his

  • Cordillera peoples resist miners

    The indigenous people of the Cordillera of Northern Luzon in the Philippines — the Kalingas, Kankanaeys, Sagadans, Bontocs, Ifugaos and Tingguians, collectively called Igorots by the Spanish conquerors — centuries ago

  • Korean workers in wages campaign

    Since his re-election in April, South Korean President Kim Young-sam has been attempting to moderate the country's highly repressive labour laws in order to gain entry to the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development.

  • Letter from the US: Detroit strike a test for unions

    Detroit strike a test for unionsJuly 13 was the first anniversary of the Detroit newspaper strike, which is the most important labour struggle taking place in the United States today. This war of attrition pits 2000 workers

  • Bill Gaffey's work

    Bill Gaffey's work is finished. He died suddenly of a heart attack at age 71 on October 6, 1995, in St Louis. As a result, his libel lawsuit against Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly, and its editor, Peter Montague, has been

  • Six killed in attack on PDI headquarters

    At least six people were killed on July 27, when soldiers attacked the headquarters of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI). The headquarters, a house in a central Jakarta suburb, had been the focus of daily "democracy forums" over

  • Militancy and solidarity bring victory

    CHARLESTON, Illinois, USA — Union members locked out for five months at Trailmobile Corporation here have ratified a new contract which turns back all company demands for concessions and makes gains in wages and other improvements. Members of