Dita Sari is arguably the most well-known progressive activist in Indonesia today. A former trade union leader and political prisoner under the Suharto regime, she is now the chairperson of the People’s Democratic Party (PRD), which is the leading force in the new, broader National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas). Sari was interviewed in Jakarta by Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly’s Peter Boyle after the founding conference of Papernas in January, which selected her as its candidate for the 2009 presidential elections.
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Mike Sambo, the national coordinator of ZimbabweÂ’²õ International Socialist Organisation, explained to Â鶹´«Ã½ WeeklyÂ’²õ Steve Marks on February 16 what lies behind the regeneration of class struggle in the country.
BRISBANE — On February 13, 600 people attended a public meeting at the Brisbane Institute to hear Canberra-based Australia Institute executive director Clive Hamilton speak on the recently published book Silencing Dissent: How the Australian government is controlling public opinion and stifling debate, which he co-edited with UNSW politics lecturer Sarah Maddison.
The call by Australian Greens’ leader Senator Bob Brown on February 9 for a long-term plan to phase out coalmining, exports and power generation has predictably stirred a barrage of outrage from the coal industry. Brown’s call also flushed out the Labor-Coalition bipartisan consensus of support for coal-company profits over the environment.
October 2007 will be the 40th anniversary of Ernesto “Che” GuevaraÂ’²õ death in the mountains of Bolivia. It will also be the occasion of what will hopefully be the biggest anti-imperialist convergence Australia has seen in decades — the Latin American and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum.
The Socialist Alliance is campaigning for urgent action to address the environmental catastrophe in NSW caused by drought and decades of bad management.
On February 15, PM John Howard’s government announced that it had agreed to the construction of a new US spy-satellite ground station at the Kojarena intelligence base 30 kilometres east of Geraldton. The new facility will transmit data to and from two US geostationary spy satellites focused on the Middle East and Asia.
An article by Adele Horin in the February 15 Sydney Morning Herald reported the findings of a world authority on income inequality, Sir Anthony Atkinson, of Oxford University, which he presented at a seminar at the social policy research centre at the University of NSW.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Global Footprint NetworkÂ’²õ 2006 report, Living Planet, released last October, painted a grim picture of the calamitous state of the worldÂ’²õ environment. It warned that human activities are outstripping the natural worldÂ’²õ capacity to regenerate.
"Twenty-five and 30 years ago, like a lot of other Australians I was involved in actions and activities across this country [against US bases]. Of course you change your mind about some things over time, no one listening to this interview would
Protest Cheney’s visit! Join the protests against US Vice-President Dick Cheney’s visit. Sydney * 5.30pm, February 22, Sydney Town Hall * 8am, February 23, Shangri-la Hotel, cnr. Essex and George Streets, the Rocks Phone Simon on 0438 297 552 or Paddy on 0415 800 586 Canberra * 5pm, February 23, Garema Place, Civic Phone James on 0403 943 529
After months of internecine fighting that has resulted in more than 90 Palestinian deaths, Fatah and Hamas signed a deal on February 8 to form a new unity government. The deal, brokered by Saudi Arabia, was signed after a two-day emergency meeting in Mecca.
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