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ACEH: ExxonMobil accused of 'ethnic genocide'

BY SAM FROST Oil giant ExxonMobil's operations in the Indonesian province of Aceh are to be examined by a US court, after 11 Acehnese filed a suit against the company, claiming to have suffered human rights abuses at the hands of military units

Socialist Alliance votes for action

BY SUE BOLTON In line with its perspective that the Socialist Alliance needs to give support to extra-parliamentary campaigns, the conference voted to support the protests being organised against the Commonwealth Business Forum in

INDONESIA: Repression the winner in Megawati cabinet

BY MAX LANE Military generals and figures linked to the regime of former dictator Suharto have done well in the first cabinet of newly-elected President Megawati Sukarnoputri, which was announced on August 9. In a signal move, Sukarnoputri has

Free speech attacked at Sydney University

BY PETER BOYLE SYDNEY — As I rocked up to Sydney University for my usual Green Left Weekly sales spot on August 9, three university security officers were attempting to close down the Socialist Worker club's literature stall in the library

AMWU activists: 'Support the Socialist Alliance!'

BY TIM GOODEN& ALISON DELLIT One of the hottest debates at the August 4-5 Socialist Alliance national conference was the relationship between the alliance and the unions. Green Left Weekly spoke to two Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)

Colombian protesters besieged in consulate

BY RUSSELL PICKERING SYDNEY — When 16 solidarity activists, including a number of children, began their occupation of the Colombian consulate on the morning of August 8, they were protesting rampant violations of human rights in the South

Unions condemn royal commission

BY CHRIS SPINDLER MELBOURNE — One thousand shop stewards and delegates from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union, the Plumbers' Union and the Maritime Union

The trials of growing up a working-class Catholic

REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN LiamDirected by Stephen FrearsScreenplay by Jimmy McGovernStarring Anthony Borrows, Megan Burns, Ian Hart and Claire HackettShowing at Dendy and Palace cinemas nationally Liam, the latest film scripted by Jimmy

Iraq sanctions protest

SYDNEY — Fifty activists held a protest outside the US consulate on August 6 to demand an end to the 11 year-old economic sanctions against Iraq on the anniversary of their introduction. Passers-by heard how the sanctions have had a crippling

Howard ignores the lessons of Timor

BY PIP HINMAN It doesn't come as much surprise that PM John Howard has been so quick to visit Jakarta. Barely a day after the new Indonesian cabinet was announced, Howard was on his way to make a deal with the Sukarnoputri-military government. In

March on CHOGM gains momentum

BY EWAN SAUNDERS & TIM STEWART BRISBANE — Plans for a massive march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October are gaining momentum, with plans by community groups and environmental and social justice organisations in the CHOGM

A long search for freedom

BY SARAH STEPHEN In 1989, Algeria's government stepped up its "Arabisation" program, imposing Arabic as the only language on the entire population, regardless of whether or not people spoke it. Even books were rewritten, from French into Arabic.