In January and February, JO BROWN travelled in Java and met activists in the Indonesian students' and workers' movements. Here she describes visiting the slum areas around Jakarta that are home to the new urban working class.
The contrasts and
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ACT Greens in federal by-election
By Gosta Lynga
CANBERRA — The ACT Greens are standing James Warden, environmentalist, historian of politics and writer, as their candidate in the March 25 by-election for the seat of Canberra, formerly
JIM O'DONNELL is a member of the Democratic Left (DL) in Ireland and an organiser of the New European Left Forum. He was interviewed for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in Brussels by SARAH STEPHEN and CHOW WEI CHENG.
Can you describe how the New European
Journalists arrested in Jakarta
Ahmad Taufik, chairperson of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), another member, Liston P. Siregar, and the outspokenly critical member of parliament, Sri Bintang Pamungkas, were arrested during a
ADELAIDE — Miscellaneous Workers Union members have lifted bans imposed on public hospitals after four weeks of industrial action. Workers have been fighting for a $20 wage increase and a further $48 over the next two years. After threatening a
Buka figure disappears
A prominent leader and pro-secessionist on the northern Bougainville island of Buka, Dennis Sareke, has disappeared. Great fears are held for his safety.
The news of Sareke's disappearance was bought to the attention
For Mary McNish, secretary of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, the "frightening thing" about the recent escalation in law-and-order hysteria "is that the government sees that it's their right to interfere with the hard-won justice system we've
Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences
By James R. Mellow
Hodder & Stoughton, 1994. 704 pp., $29.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Ernest Hemingway: a splendid storyteller, but a pity about the politics. After reading Mellow's biography of
Criticism of Pasminco expansion inquiry
By Kamala Emanuel
and Shane Bentley
NEWCASTLE — A commission of inquiry, into a proposed $47 million upgrade of the Boolaroo Pasminco smelter, heard criticism on March 16 of a blood-lead survey
UNSW staff vote to support student strike
By Helen Jarvis
The academic staff union at UNSW has voted to support the National Day of Action on March 23, by cancelling classes and holding a stop-work meeting.
A well-attended meeting of
By Antonio Paneque Brizuelas
RAMSEY CLARK entered the Cuban Red Cross building in Havana, where a shipment of insulin from the US company Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals was handed over in a modest ceremony. The first question put to him when we sat
Indonesian activist speaks
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Dita Sari, general secretary of the Indonesian Centre for Working Class Struggle (PPBI) was here last week as a guest of the International Women's Day Collective.
"Women of the
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