World

  • CIS populations: 'Shift to capitalism a mistake!'

    MOSCOW — Ask a citizen of the former Soviet Union what he or she thinks of "the market", and in well over half the cases, the answer is likely to be something unprintable. Go on to ask what ordinary people can now do to

  • Israel reported advising Turkish forces in Iraq

    Israeli military experts are helping the Turkish government combat Kurdish separatist guerillas, the French weekly "confidential" newsletter TTU said on March 17. The newsletter, which uses unnamed sources, said Turkey

  • Protests over plight of Philippine migrant workers

    Protests against the execution of Flor Contemplacion, the Filipina maid hanged in Singapore, escalated across the Philippines even after her burial on March 27. At dawn on that day, urban guerillas from the Alex Boncayao

  • Rising yen spells trouble for Japan

    More workers in Japan are likely to lose their jobs or have their pay packets cut as the rise of the yen to new heights encourages Japanese companies to shift more production lines to the Third World, where costs are cheaper.

  • Russian Easter

    Easter this year will be different across Australia. In four cities, it will take on a distinctly Russian hue. Not that Green Left is promoting painted eggs. As regular readers will know, Russian writer and socialist activist Boris Kagarlitsky

  • Abortion information law goes to Irish court

    Abortion information law goes to Irish courtThe Irish Supreme Court is to review a new "abortion information bill" allowing doctors and other professionals to give women the names and addresses of abortion clinics outside

  • Scholar speaks on Indonesian democracy

    Indonesian academic George Aditjondro has consistently exposed the repression that occurs in his own country, but is better known for his outspoken support for independence in East Timor. Now lecturing at Murdoch University in

  • Serbs charged with war crimes

    Serbs charged with war crimes The Hague International War Crimes Tribunal issued its first mass indictments on February 13, charging 21 Serbs with 275 counts of war crimes, breaches of the Geneva Convention, crimes against humanity and

  • Fighting for the environment in French Polynesia

    GABRIEL TETIARAHI is the national coordinator of the French Polynesian organisation Hiti Tau, which brings together 40 non-government groups working on environmental, sovereignty and social issues. He recently visited Australia, where he provided a

  • Sarajevo's mayor: 'Lift the embargo!'

    Early in 1995, citizens of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, marked the 1000th day of the siege of their city by the Bosnian Serb army led by Radovan Karadzic. Dr TARIK KUPUSOVIC, mayor of Sarajevo, recently visited Sydney to raise material and moral

  • Women battle against nuclear arms

    The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Yellow Gate, is now embarking on its 14th year of direct action. Following the closure of the military base there, the focus is on fighting the newer Trident warheads, which are replacing

  • German socialists explain election gains

    In the German elections in October, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) nearly doubled its vote and won 30 seats in the Bundestag (parliament). Earlier this year, Sarah Stephen and Chow Wei-Cheng spoke to Dr Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, deputy