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
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The French far-left's campaign in the European election
By Stanislav Demidjuk
MONTPELLIER â The success of the French far-left Lutte Ouvriere-Ligue
Communiste Revolutionaire (LO-LCR) list in the June European elections
was a
By Sam King
JAKARTA — People's Democratic Party (PRD) activists took to the streets on July 2 to protest the previous day's brutal police attack on a 2000-strong rally outside the offices of the electoral commission (KPU). The 1000
Kurds protest Ocalan death sentence
By Gail Lord
More than 150 members of the Kurdish community travelled to Canberra on June 30 to condemn the death sentence imposed by a Turkish security court on the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party,
By Edward Said
No one can doubt that what has transpired in Kosovo as a result both of Slobodan Milosevic's brutality and the NATO response has made matters a good deal worse than they were before the bombing. The cost in human suffering on all
Correction
The article in GLW #365 "Revolutionaries elected to European Parliament" reported that the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) in Italy won six EP seats. In fact, it won four seats. The other two were won by the Party of Italian
By Jo Ellis
Pre-revolutionary Cuba was no paradise for gays and lesbians. There were gay bars where homosexual men could meet, but to be a maricone (faggot) was to be a social outcast. Laws made it illegal to be gay and police targeted homosexuals
By Norm Dixon
The overwhelming victory by the African National Congress in South Africa's June 2 national and provincial elections was greeted with approval by big business spokespeople. ANC leaders moved quickly after the final results were
Cancel all Third World debt!
By Zanny Begg
In 1992, a memo by the World Bank's chief economist and vice-president Lawrence Summers was leaked to the media. In it Lawrence asked, "Shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty
NT land rights under attack
By Margaret Allum
A review of the 1976 Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act released on August 21 contains recommendations which many say are an attempt to extinguish land rights throughout the NT. Building on Land
By Andrea Marklew
BRISBANE — More than 600 people attended this year's annual Lesbian and Gay Pride rally at Roma Street Forum. The rally marks 10 years of activism for Brisbane's Lesbian and Gay Pride Collective. The rally was chaired by Gay
By Jim Green
The nuclear power industry is experiencing "a meltdown of historic proportions", according to a recent report from the Worldwatch Institute. After growing more than 700% in the 1970s, and 140% in the 1980s, nuclear power capacity has
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