INDONESIA: Workers demonstrate at legislature
Although most of the protests in Jakarta during the
annual session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)
were relatively small, the final day of the session, August
18, drew
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Around 20,000 people from around the state of Bihar braved torrential rains to march to Parliament Street in Delhi on August 23. The march and rally were organised by the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) to support demands for an economic
Melbourne Uni students to vote on s11
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — Students at Melbourne University will vote on August 31 on whether their student union will support the S11 protests against the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting here on
BASQUE COUNTRY: ETA violence hinders Basque struggle
Â鶹ӳ» Weekly's SARAH PEART spoke to MIKEL ARAVA ETXEZARRETA from the United Left executive in the Basque Country about the state of the struggle for Basque self-determination. Question:
CUBA: Another shady and sinister story
The case of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, plucked from the Florida straits in November and held against his family's will for eight months until his July return, forced world attention onto US policy towards
Race and class in the US: The duopoly
It's official: Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman are the Democratic Party nominees for president and vice-president of the United States; George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are the Republican Party nominees. The "race
Training camp prepares activists for S11
BY MARCEL CAMERON
MELBOURNE — Forty activists attended a lively "socialist training camp" near Ballarat in country Victoria to prepare for the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum summit
RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS — Mexico's new national government of Vicente Fox hasn't taken office yet, but already it confronts its thorniest political problem. This challenge comes not from the country's former governing party, the Institutional
Lucas Heights reactor from 'Dodgy brothers'
BY JIM GREEN
The federal Coalition government has been embarrassed by revelations about Investigaciones Aplicadas (Invap), the Argentinean company contracted to build a nuclear reactor in the southern
Demanding reproductive freedom
LISMORE — Twenty-five activists organised by the Southern Cross University Queer Collective held a sit-in at the office of federal National Party MP Ian Causley to oppose the Coalition government's proposed changes
Sacked workers seek action from ALP
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
MELBOURNE — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian secretary Craig Johnston has called on Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks to intervene to prevent the closure of
Brandon Astor Jones, the author of the weekly "Looking Out" column in Â鶹ӳ» Weekly, believes that the prison authorities are withholding his personal mail. He usually receives 10 to 50 letters a week, but for the past few months he has been
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