Budiman Sujatmiko, newly elected chair of the People's Democratic Party of Indonesia was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by Graham Mitchell and Karen Fleming in central Java on April 16.
Question: Why is this congress being held?
This congress
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By Nikki Ulasowski
Wollongong — More than 200 members of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU) and students from Wollongong University met last week to discuss industrial action and the continuing campaign for a 15% pay rise.
His fine wit
Give or take a few months, it is the 130th anniversary of the death of Thomas Love Peacock. B'gad! you exclaim, has he been gone from us for that long a time?
Of course there's a chance, I grant, that among you there could be some
By Viviana Sacchero
MELBOURNE — Rusden is an intimate campus of Deakin University on which a mere 2000 students reside. Last month its students came close to being losers in the federal government's agenda of education cuts. On April 22, at a
Trammit! — A time tramalogue for radio. Why does Melbourne still have trams? Why did Sydney — "the second largest network in the British Empire" — do away with trams in the 1950s? And why are cities like Los Angeles and Sydney discussing
By Annette Wade
MELBOURNE — Since the federal election, the Commonwealth Department of Housing and Regional Development has been totally abolished. Public housing and the Crisis Accommodation Program (CAP) have been moved to the Department of
By Anthony Benbow and Virginia Brown
PERTH — The scarlet-coloured leaflet advertised the Fremantle branch of the Australian Labor Party meeting as "Re-visioning Labor". It was to assess the federal election result and discuss where to go to next.
Democrat — 1
"If somebody wants to risk burning this country to ashes, let them arrest me." — South African Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi in response to evidence before the murder trial of former defence
By Stephen Marks
MONTEVIDEO — It's easy to find the alternative media in Uruguay. Sidewalk kiosks in the capital display a wide variety of progressive magazines and newspapers which provide a refreshing alternative to the "infotainment" produced
Price of justice
Readers will be aware of Brandon Astor Jones who has written the Looking Out column for Green Left Weekly for the past three years. Brandon has spent many years on death row, in Georgia, USA, after being sentenced to death by an
By Conor Twyford
WELLINGTON — An election as early as September is now on the cards in New Zealand following the resignation on April 23 of the New Zealand First MP for Hawkes Bay, Michael Laws. Laws, who left the National Party in March to join
CPSU activist Ben Courtice writes from Hobart that 153 CPSU members working in the Australian Public Service attended a meeting last week to discuss plans to fight cuts to the APS. The meeting discussed the motion from the National Executive and an
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