By Jill Hickson
DILI - In June, three 10 year-old boys found a grenade in their playground in Dili, the capital of East Timor. They pulled the pin and it exploded. Two of the boys were blow to pieces. The third was rushed to the church clinic in
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By Emily Citkowski
YOGYAKARTA — More that 80 Indonesian farm workers and organisers
met here on June 25-27 to re-establish the National Peasants' Union (STN
— Sarakat Tani Nasional). This was the STN's second congress. The founding
Colombia features in Comrades Bar
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — The second Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly Politics in the Pub at the Electrical Trades Union's Comrades Bar on June 30 focused on Colombia. It discussed whether Latin America's next
Pakistani workers condemn war
By Farooq Suleria
LAHORE, Pakistan — On June 25, 500 workers attending the annual general meeting of Itehad (Unity) Carpet Industry Workers Union of Pakistan condemned the war efforts of the ruling classes of both
Reflection's hard truth
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The violence of today's society has little to do with the shunning of God and much more to do with a glorification of guns, [intolerance] and ... a lack of parental supervision." — Jeff Joseph
Exposing the G7 lies
By Eric Toussaint
Was last month's G7 Summit (bringing together the United Kingdom, United States, France, Japan, Italy, Canada and Germany) in Cologne a move towards cancelling poor countries' debts? Don't believe all you're
Helen Todd's battle for justice
Punitive DamageDirected by Annie GoldsonSydney Film Festival Review by Michael Goldstein
Punitive Damage, recently shown at the Sydney Film Festival, is an inspiring and most moving testimony to the courage and
Isaiah Berlin: A LifeBy Michael IgnatieffChatto & Windus, 1998. 356 pp., $49.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
Since the death of Sir Isaiah Berlin in 1997, there has been a publishing flurry of Berlin's philosophical and historical essays,
Students and Sustainability to meet in Sydney's west
By Bronwyn Powell
SYDNEY — Students and Sustainability, the annual national student environment conference, will kick off at the University of Western Sydney's Hawkesbury campus on July 12.
By John Meehan
DUBLIN — The Protestant-chauvinist Orange Order's annual July march
down the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Northern Ireland, on Sunday,
July 4, has been banned by the British government's Parades Commission.
The ruling class rates our unions
By Jonathan Singer
What makes a good union? According to the Australian, the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers (APESMA) and the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees' Association
The passing of the death sentence on Kurdish liberation fighter Abdullah Ocalan on June 29 by a political court of the viciously anti-democratic, military-backed government of Turkey highlights the depth of hypocrisy and utter cynicism of the
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