World

  • SOUTH KOREA: APEC 2005 - An ugly feast and a huge protest

    Lee Yu Kyung, Pusan The cost of accommodation for each leader attending the APEC summit was US$4000 per day. US President George Bush occupied the whole of Western Chosun Hotel. Some 1000 official participants swallowed $1.5 million at the

  • MAURITIUS: Britain exiles thousands for good

    Alison Dellit On June 16, the British government made a mockery of any claim of avowing its colonial exploitation, with a decision to reject the right of return of thousands of Mauritians forced out of their homes 30 years ago. The story goes

  • Venezuela's sexual revolution within the revolution

    At the January World Social Forum in Caracas, Green Left Weekly's Rachel Evans and Maurice Farrell caught up with Ricardo Hung from the Alianza Lambda gay-rights organisation and Moises Rivera Lopez, the coordinator of the Sexual Riverside Network

  • BRITAIN: Left current launched in new lecturers' union

    Alex Miller, London Some 220 members of the University and College Union (UCU) met at the London Metropolitan University on June 24 to launch the UCU Left, an organised progressive platform within the 120,000-strong union, which was formed when the

  • IRAN: US floats new WMD fabrication

    Doug Lorimer A claim by US intelligence officials that they possess "strong circumstantial" evidence that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program were dismissed on November 14 by US nuclear weapons expert David Albright. According to the

  • SCOTLAND: SSP stands its ground in euro election

    Alex Miller In the June 10 election for the European Parliament, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) polled 61,356 votes, which represented 5.2% of all votes cast in Scotland. Because of the expansion of the EU, Scotland elected seven members of

  • Prawn farming lays waste to Thai mangroves

    Vudthikorn Chittiwan is a lecturer in aquatic science at Prince of Songkla University in south Thailand. He has a scholarship from the Australian government to study the environmental impacts of prawn farming on mangrove

  • CANADA: 'Anti-terror' arrests aimed at anti-war movement

    Ian Angus, Toronto On June 2, a combined force of local, provincial and federal police arrested 15 young Muslim men, including five minors, in the Toronto area. Those 15, and two others who have been in jail since last August, are accused of

  • CFMEU commits to solidarity with Venezuela

    On October 17, the CFMEU Construction and Energy Division adopted the following resolution in solidarity with Venezuela at its national conference. The CFMEU Construction and Energy Division congratulates and supports the Venezuelan government for

  • SOUTH AFRICA: Activists charged for 'intimidation'

    Dale McKinley On June 3 in the Protea Magistrate's Court in Soweto, two Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) activists from the community of Phiri — Tshepo Mkwanazi and Thabo Madisane — were convicted of "intimidation" and given R10,000 fines each,

  • SRI LANKA: Air force bombs Tamils

    Two Sri Lankan Air Force jets began bombing the town of Mullaithivu and its suburbs on June 15, according to a TamilNet report. The town is controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The LTTE's S. Elilan said that Sampoor and Muttur East in

  • INDIA: Terror, tragedy and policies of insecurity

    Swadesh Bhattacharya Even as India was getting ready for the festivities of Deewali and Eid, October 29 turned out to be India's saddest Saturday in recent memory. Tragedy struck in the wee hours when many bogies of a Secunderabad-bound passenger