World

  • British politicians reject equal age of consent

    "We knew we were breaking the law. We went right out into Sussex, into the middle of nowhere. We were petrified that we were going to be caught." So a young gay man describes his first homosexual experience under the shadow of

  • Australian observers for Salvadoran elections

    On February 25 a delegation of five women will depart Australia to observe the Salvadoran elections. "We have been invited by the FMLN to join with other international representatives to observe the March 20 elections", explained

  • Wingti attempts to mislead NZ

    Speaking on Radio New Zealand's Morning Report program on February 15, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti turned truth on its head. "Paias Wingti claimed that there was no blockade of Bougainville, that PNG troops

  • Indigenous people organise in Guatemala

    Leoncio Sanic Simon is president of the Guatemalan peasant organisation People of Corn, or Achim Ixim. Achim Ixim was founded by Sanic and others in 1990 to help indigenous peasants who have been displaced from their homes by

  • Today Hanoi, tomorrow Havana?

    Today Hanoi, tomorrow Havana?According to the February 17 San Francisco Chronicle, many US businesses are keen to open trade relations with Havana. The dollars-and-cents argument is gaining some momentum. In early

  • Ruling against Colombian president

    Ruling against Colombian president BOGOTA — Colombian President Cesar Gaviria may have to stand trial for the unauthorised presence of US troops in Colombian territory. On February 9 Colombia's Council of State unanimously ruled that

  • Bougainville to be discussed by UN body

    The war against the people of Bougainville has been accepted on the agenda of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) for this year in Geneva. The Bougainville interim government representative to the UN, Mike

  • Trade and US foreign policy

    PETER CAMEJO is chairperson of Earth Trade, a San Francisco-based import/export company specialising in environmentally sustainable development. He will be a featured guest speaker at the International Green Left Conference from March 31 to April 4

  • Russia's democratic left starts to organise

    MOSCOW — "'The Union of Labour' — that is the name chosen by a trade union social and political movement formed in Krasnoyarsk region. The founders include the trade unions of workers in education and science, culture and

  • White workers join COSATU

    White workers join COSATU More than 1000 white workers in the transport giant Transnet — some of them members of the right-wing Conservative Party — have joined the COSATU [Council of South African Unions] affiliate, the SA Railways and

  • US airline workers debate ownership plan

    By mid-year the largest airline in the country, United Airlines, could be "controlled" by its union employees. Leaders of the machinists' and pilots' unions say an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is the best

  • How Russian officials hide unemployment

    MOSCOW — According to statistics issued by the Russian Federal Employment Service at the end of January, there are now only 835,000 jobless people in the country — barely 1% of the work force. However, statistics can