West Papua: Strong Support for independence
A congress on May 29-June 4 in Jayapura city, West Papua, has called
for steps to forge an independent West Papua. The Morning Star flag, banned
symbol of West Papuan independence, was flying every
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Developments in International Socialists' debate list
The last issue of Green Left Weekly reported on a factional debate within the International Socialist Tendency and the establishment of an email list to distribute information and discuss the
The overthrow of the Fiji Labour Party-led government "is not a struggle between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians" BRIJ LAL, a professor of history at the Australian National University and a director of the ANU's Centre for the Contemporary
The final major hurdles to China's attempts to be fully reintegrated into the global capitalist trading system have been removed. In late May, the US House of Representatives granted China permanent "normal trade relations" status and a bilateral
International news briefs
Argentine unions protest IMF austerity
More than 80,000 people marched through Buenos Aires on May 31 to protest against a government economic austerity plan. Argentina's trade unions have called a one-day national
Internationalism in the new century
Links number 15New Course Publications, May 2000127pp. $6.50 By Allen Myers
The latest issue of Links, the "international journal of socialist renewal", features Marxism 2000, the second Asia Pacific Solidarity
Country Labor: a new direction?
BY SUE BOLAND
Excited by the Victorian Labor Party's victory in the state Benalla by-election in May, federal Labor leader Kim Beazley announced that the ALP would register the name "Country Labor" federally. Is
The left-wing Lavalas Family (FL) dominated the long-delayed legislative and local elections held in Haiti on May 21. According to partial results so far announced, it won 14 of the 19 Senate seats up for election and made a strong showing in the
Cuban women to tour Australia
July 22-30
Berta Acosta Sequi and Nancy Iglesias from the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) will be visiting Australia on July 22-30. This is a special opportunity to share experiences and learn from revolutionary
Bridge walk 'must be built upon'
BY MARGARET ALLUM
On May 28, a human sea of goodwill made its way across an Australian
icon, the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The largest mobilised expression of solidarity
with the Aboriginal people for
Sri Lanka: Government crackdown meets opposition
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's attempts to stifle public
opposition to the war against the Tamils in the north and to social and
economic policies in the south have met
Led by metalworkers and nurses, more than 70,000 workers from more than 140 trade unions joined the first day of a general strike which swept South Korea on May 31, according to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which organised the
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