World

  • Washington tightens its grip on Korea

    By Eva Cheng In February, the US abandoned a 1992 plan to reduce its troops in east Asia, affirming it will maintain 100,000 military personnel in the region for the next 10 years. Of these, 37,000 will be based in South Korea, up from a 1992

  • Chilean activist speaks out

    By Robyn Marshall Miriam Ortega, a long-time activist in Chilean left politics, arrived in Australia at the end of July on a one-month speaking tour. Miriam spent 11 years in Pinochet's prisons, where she was tortured continuously for 20 days in

  • Call for economic boycott of Burmese junta

    Call for economic boycott of Burmese junta Call for economic boycott of Burmese junta On September 18, Burmese democracy activists around the world will observe the seventh anniversary of "8888", a student-led nationwide uprising in 1988 that

  • PLO agrees to partial redeployment

    By Jennifer Thompson The PLO executive council met in Tunis from August 14-16 to discuss the partial redeployment document agreed at Taba by PLO Chairman Yassar Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres on August 11. Attended by ten of

  • One year since the cease-fire: no peace in Ireland

    By Sean Magill Sinn Fein activist Jim Neeson is touring Australia as the guest of Australian Aid for Ireland. His first stop was Western Australia, where he spoke to leading trade unionists, Aboriginal activist Yaluritja (Clarrie Isaacs), and

  • Indonesian prisoners to be executed

    By James Balowski On August 17, the Indonesian minister of justice, Oetojo Oesman, announced that seven prisoners, including two long-serving political prisoners, are soon to be executed. These will be the first political executions since

  • Campaign to prosecute Khmer Rouge moves forward

    By Helen Jarvis PHNOM PENH — Legal options for prosecuting the Khmer Rouge leadership for crimes committed during their 1975-79 rule in Cambodia were discussed here in an August 22-23 conference, "Striving for Justice: International Criminal

  • Appeal for Mordechai Vanunu

    Appeal for Mordechai Vanunu Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli technician who revealed the truth about that country's nuclear weapons arsenal, remains in solitary confinement after nine years of imprisonment. Fredrik S. Heffermehl, chairperson of the

  • Turkish public sector workers strike

    Turkish public sector workers strike By Jennifer Thompson About 850,000 public sector workers — members of the Turkish trade union confederation Turk-Is — stopped work on August 8, disrupting communications, transport and power generation.

  • PNG land-holders cripple mine

    By Norm Dixon PNG's newest gold mine — the Tolukuma Gold Mine in the Goilala mountains in Central Province — is the latest site of conflict between traditional land-holders and an Australian mining company. On August 5, rioting broke out

  • Mass pressure forces deferral of PNG land plan

    Mass pressure forces deferral of PNG land planBy Norm Dixon Several weeks of large demonstrations in PNG against World Bank/International Monetary Fund-backed proposals to undermine the country's traditional system of collective land ownership

  • Cuba: 'Building a new society in the middle of war'

    JUAN ANTONIO BLANCO is a former adviser to the Cuban Foreign Ministry and the United Nations, and a well-known political analyst. He was interviewed in Cuba for Green Left Weekly by JILL HICKSON and SHANE HOPKINSON Question: The current US strategy