World

  • PNG plans special law for BHP

    The Papua New Guinea government has foreshadowed legislation that will not only impose an inadequate settlement on tens of thousands of people demanding compensation for the massive environmental damage caused by the

  • Bougainville mercy mission turns to nig.htmare

    SYDNEY — David Alley is a quietly spoken church minister from a parish just outside Auckland in New Zealand. To look at him, you would never guess that he could ever pose a threat to the "national security" of any country.

  • Stay of execution for Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Stay of execution for Mumia Abu-Jamal "I think it is absolutely clear that without the international support coming from all quarters — trade unionists, civil libertarians, authors, writers and students — it would not have been

  • Bosnia abandoned

    EDDY JOKOVICH is the editor of VolteFace, a new monthly journal focusing on international politics, and particularly the Balkans. He returned recently from a visit to Macedonia and Croatia. He spoke to Green Left Weekly's JENNIFER THOMPSON about the

  • German metalworkers union wins 35-hour week

    On October 1, the 3 million member German metalworkers' union, IG Metall, will achieve the goal it set back in 1977 — the 35-hour week at 40 hours' pay. A strike in 1984 resulted in the first cut, to 38.5 hours, and

  • Consultation by Zapatistas

    Consultation by Zapatistas The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee — General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) on June 8 called for a national and international consultation around five questions

  • Israeli peace movement material published

    Israeli peace movement material publishedSydney's Australian-Jewish peace group, Shalom-Salaam, has returned to action, as the Israeli government blocks implementation of the peace accords with the PLO.

  • PNG says no to the 'terrible twins'

    A large movement in opposition to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund-imposed structural adjustment program (SAP) is developing across Papua New Guinea. Of particular concern to the people is a plan to undermine the

  • Jakarta nervous about East Timor opposition

    Last month Indonesia officially celebrated the 19th anniversary of the "integration" of East Timor as its 27th province. In carefully orchestrated ceremonies across the country, government officials focused on the

  • China continues bomb tests in Xinjiang

    Beijing conducted another nuclear test in Xinjiang on May 15, two days after it had promised more than 170 countries that it would try hard not to do so before an agreement to ban nuclear tests is reached, which is scheduled

  • Rubber tappers protest against nuclear tests

    Rubber tappers protest against nuclear tests BRASILIA — Around 300 rubber tappers and workers from the Brazilian rainforest protested on July 25 at the French embassy against the resuming of nuclear tests. The demonstrators

  • Miners in Russian Far East grow restless

    MOSCOW — In the coal-mining centre of Partizansk in the Maritime District of Russia's Far East, most miners go to work with nothing more than bread and sugar in their lunch boxes. From time to time, miners collapse on