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  • The night they shot democracy in China

    Four years ago the Chinese government sent in soldiers to clear Tiananmen Square of students, workers and other citizens who were demanding democratic reform. While the students and citizens sang the "Internationale", the army attacked. Hundreds

  • PNG 'terrorism' law draws protest

    PNG 'terrorism' law draws protestPORT MORESBY — Papua New Guinea's harsh new Internal Security Act has been attacked as the "most disturbing" law passed by the country's parliament since independence in 1975. Part

  • An appeal from Malaysia's 'forgotten people'

    We are almost half way through the International Year of Indigenous Peoples, but for some Jahai, a Semang aboriginal people in the northern Malaysian state of Kelantan, the year is turning out to be a bad one. As a result of

  • Right wing feared Hani would be president

    Right wing feared Hani would be presidentSouth African Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani, assassinated on April 10, was targeted because the right wing believed he was Nelson Mandela's most likely successor,

  • South African election date set

    South African election date setSouth Africa is likely to hold its first non-racial general election next April 27, it was announced on June 3. The African National Congress described the announcement as a vital

  • Jakarta under pressure on Xanana

    By Jana D.K. in Jakarta and Mitchell Hamilton in Sydney The Indonesian government is attempting to escape political pressures following the trial of Xanana by creating the false impression that the East Timorese resistance leader has changed

  • Philippines indigenous groups oppose geothermal plant

    By Judith A. Pasimio Apo Sandawa is the ancestral home of more than 100,000 Lumad (the indigenous people of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines). It is one of the ASEAN Heritage Sites and is also on the United Nations List of National

  • British workers threaten their leaders' sleep

    LONDON — There are any number of interesting conferences and meetings to tempt one here. "Unions '93", organised in late May by a dozen unions and the New Statesman & Society magazine with a line-up of unionists —

  • Worker activist murdered

    Worker activist murdered JAKARTA — Marsinah, aged 25, a worker activist with PT Catur Putra Surya, a watch manufacturing company in the regency of Sidoarjo, East Java, was found dead on May 8. It is believed that her death was related to a

  • Hunger strike

    Hunger strike Reliable sources in East Timor have confirmed that Xanana is on a hunger strike in prison in Dili. The sources said Xanana is ill but has not been visited by anyone, including the Red Cross. Jose Ramos-Horta, the special

  • Events push Yeltsin towards a coup

    MOSCOW — "It's not realistic to stick to the law", Sergei Yushenkov, an aide to President Boris Yeltsin, was quoted in the Moscow press recently. "The congress is now illegitimate." More bluntly than Yeltsin,

  • Paul Foot leaves Mirror

    Paul Foot leaves MirrorLONDON — Respected journalist and author Paul Foot has quit the Daily Mirror after writing a weekly page for 13 years. Foot, a member of the British Socialist Workers Party since 1962,