World

  • Letter from the US: Affirmative action threatened

    Part and parcel of the capitalist offensive against working people in the United States is the drive by both the Democrats and Republicans to trim back the gains won by blacks and other people of colour, and by women. One aspect of this campaign

  • 'No surrender!': East Timor guerilla leader

    "There will be no surrender. We will fight to the last drop of blood", says DAVID ALEX, one of the most wanted men in East Timor. At war for 20 years, Alex has killed more Indonesian soldiers than he cares to remember. He is regional commander of the

  • South Korean workers in action

    On May 6, police in Kumi, in the southern province of Kyongsang, arrested 45 union activists of the Korea Textile Company following a violent clash two days earlier between 800 workers and riot police. The workers were reportedly

  • Population control: the Indian experience

    Except for China, India is the most populous country in the world. In 1952 it became the first country to introduce national family planning. At that point, the program was instigated to improve maternal and infant health, but the

  • Solidarity message

    The following is from a message sent to the Sri Lankan president on May 9 on behalf of the Democratic Socialist Party. "The Democratic Socialist Party of Australia strongly condemns the vicious police attack on the May Day march of the Nava Sama

  • Troops attack Indonesian students

    Two thousand students clashed with anti-riot troops in the central Javanese city of Yogyakarta on May 14. The students, mobilised by SMID (Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia), were marching in protest against the killing of 26

  • Peres thwarted by Lebanese resistance

    According to Noam Chomsky's April 23 article, "Israel, Lebanon, and the 'Peace Process'", the day after Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres took office, the New York Times reported "approvingly" that Israeli war planes attacked

  • Rule of the gun in paradise

    Kashmir has been a battle ground for too many years. The peaceful, friendly Kashmiri culture has been destroyed and can never be rebuilt. The only authority recognised is the gun. In a land where one death would have the valley

  • Police attack Sri Lankan May Day march

    By K. Govindan COLOMBO — May Day marchers here were attacked and tear-gassed by police who dispersed demonstrators, seriously injuring several of them. Just two days before all demonstrations — though not rallies — had been banned by the

  • US papers show Kennedy rebuffed 1961 Cuba offer

    US government documents declassified in April reveal that in 1961 US President John Kennedy pushed ahead with economic pressure and covert actions against Cuba despite the Cuban government's willingness to give in to the US on key points, according

  • De Klerk bails out as constitution passes

    National Party leader F.W. de Klerk on May 9 announced that his party will withdraw from South Africa's government of national unity (GNU) on June 30. The sudden announcement finally ends the apartheid party's 48-year continuous

  • Worsening plight of Cambodian women

    KIEN SEREY PHAL is director of the Cambodian Women's Development Association in Phnom Penh. She spoke to ROSANNA BARBERO about the problem of the trafficking of women. Question: When did this issue escalate? Since 1989, there has been a dramatic