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Indonesian student activist to tour

NICO WAHID is a leader of Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia (SMID), a national progressive student organisation with 10 branches across Indonesia which was established in 1991. Nico is in Australia to attend the "East Timor: Its

Riots, arson and socialists out west

By Michael Bramwell and Arun Pradhan PERTH — Who is Resistance and what are they doing out west? Looking at the media coverage last year starts to give a (distorted) idea. According to Channel 9 news, Resistance was infiltrating Perth high

Protests follow killing of East Timorese youth

Protests follow killing of East Timorese youth By Edmund Thompson East Timorese youths and their supporters in Jakarta have organised protests following the killing of an East Timorese youth, Manuel Soares, on June 7. Soares, 25, had moved to

Repression intensifies in Nigeria

By Norm Dixon The brutal military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha is stepping up its harassment of labour movement activists. The British Committee of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) and the London-based Committee for a

ANC makes gains in Western Cape

By Norm Dixon The African National Congress narrowed the gap between it and the National Party in the Western Cape local elections held May 29. Despite the ANC gains, the NP's continuing support from members of Cape Town's predominantly

Russian workers protest as pay debts remain

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — If you hadn't had a pay packet in months, would you be holding off from protest action in order to avoid embarrassing the ruling authorities before the next elections? Probably not, and workers in Russia aren't doing so

Greenhouse: why Howard must set targets

Greenhouse: why Howard must set targets By Pip Hinman The federal Coalition government, in cahoots with mineral resources industry bosses, is running a scare campaign to convince the public that tens of thousands of jobs and Australia's economy

What's happening to Sydney?

By the Newtown Political Collective What sort of city do we want? Do we want cities that are OK to live in? Or do we want cities that are machines for making profit? What sort of city do we have? Do you live near the M2? Do you live under an

Looking deeply into the mirror

MrayaAbdel Ali SlimaniReal World through FestivalReviewed by Jenny Long This album is an interesting introduction to the current evolution of Algerian "pop"-rai — the 1980 and '90s version of the bawdy, working-class rai originating from the

Street party against yuppification of Newtown &&

By James Hutchings SYDNEY — About 350 people turned out to a street party, held in the plaza near the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on Saturday, May 25, to protest against the "yuppification" of Newtown. The event was organised by the Newtown

German socialists win referendum campaign

By Graham Matthews and Karen Fletcher On May 5, 1996, the people of the east German states of Brandenburg and Berlin soundly rejected by referendum a treaty to unify those two states. The treaty was defeated even though almost every major party

Mad cow disease: threat of an epidemic &&

Mad cow disease: threat of an epidemic By Michael Greger Peter Hall showed the first signs of depression around Christmas 1994. In five months he was in a wheelchair. He died at age 20 of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD), a relentlessly