Roberto Jorquera
As of June 7, Chilean high-school students continued to strike and occupy schools throughout the nation, demanding the repeal of the Organic Constitutional and Teaching Law (introduced under the Pincohet regime) and improvements in
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Norman Brewer, Wellington In a spectacular, colourful and noisy display of Maori solidarity, about 20,000 protesters besieged the NZ Parliament in Wellington on May 5. The protest was on an unprecedented scale for the country of 4 million
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Michael Karadjis, Hanoi Vietnam is facing the dilemma of a highly successful campaign to restore forest destroyed during the US war, combined with continuing deforestation resulting from break-neck economic development. Green Left Weekly asked
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Eva Cheng According to an article in the China-based Social Science Forum (issue #5, 2003), exorbitant fees charged by schools have compelled a number of students to take their own lives. Zhang Yulin, deputy professor at the Nanjing Agriculture
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On January 31, Saharawi political prisoners launched a 48-hour hunger strike to protest their treatment in Moroccan jails. The activists issued a media release citing torture, repression, humiliation and threat of assassination by prison authorities.
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On May 28, the left-nationalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine announced that it had informed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh that it was willing to enter into negotiations on joining the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government. AFP
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Eva Cheng Twenty days after Beijing's April 6 move to "interpret" Hong Kong's Basic Law in areas beyond its legal jurisdiction, it did it again. On April 26, Beijing declared that it will not allow a popular vote on the territory's chief
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Kim Bullimore In the month since Israel's unilateral "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has killed 24 Palestinians, including three children, arrested at least 700 Palestinians and continued to use airborne missile strikes to
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Doug Lorimer With blatant disregard for Iran's legal rights under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), the board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) unanimously adopted a resolution on September 18 demanding
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After workers at the giant plantation and refinery in Pelalawan owned by the world's largest palm oil company, Musim Mas, dared to organise a union, the union leaders were sacked. The company brought in scabs and more than 700 union members were
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Maria Julua Mayoral, Pedro de la Hoz & Jose de la Osa, Havana Cuban President Fidel Castro has challenged US President George Bush, the CIA, the 33 US intelligence agencies, the thousands of banks in the world and the "servants" of Forbes magazine
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Doug Lorimer BBC television journalist Tara Sutton reported on February 4 that one of the first signs people see as they enter the Iraqi city of Fallujah in March reads: "Welcome to Fallujah — burial ground of the Americans." The mass rebellion