School teachers demonstrate in Surabaya
On November 29, 60 private school teachers from the Private School Teachers Communication Forum (FKGS) demonstrated at the Surabaya legislative council for improved legal rights and wages.
FKGS leader Yudin
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The 200 million people of Indonesia — the millions of factory and office workers, the tens of millions of farmers and the millions upon millions of unemployed and underemployed — face an impending social and
BY STUART MUNCKTON
The Earth is becoming a nastier planet on which to live. The growing hole in the ozone layer, increased global warming and the wholesale destruction of the world's forests are evidence of this. Moreover, according to the World
BY AARON BENEDEK
MELBOURNE In Palestine, young people are resisting Israeli tanks
with rocks. In Indonesia, students, workers and peasants are mobilising
daily against rising prices and job losses imposed by the International
Monetary
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Rise Like Lions: The Hijacking of Australian HistoryBy Steve DavisGinninderra Press, 2000138pp., $19.80 (plus $3.30 postage)Order from PO Box 53, Charnwood ACT, 2516.
The cover of Steve Davis' Rise Like Lions: the Hijacking of
BY ROBERT DARCY
SYDNEY — A leaked document that appears to be a management report of a secret meeting between some federal Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) officials and P&O Stevedoring to discuss further retrenchments of workers has caused
This is the last issue of Green Left Weekly for 2000. The next issue — #432 — will be published on January 17.
BY ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ
BUENOS AIRES — When Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history, he was prematurely announcing the triumph of capitalism. The message was that there was no longer any point in resisting and workers around the world should
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
Despite a massive presence by Indonesian troops and stern warnings from Jakarta and local police, thousands of West Papuan's on December 1 peacefully celebrated the 39th anniversary of their self-declared independence from Dutch
BY JAMES SMITH
If federal education minister David Kemp gets his way, by 2004, public schools will receive only an estimated 32% of federal government funds, despite educating 70% of students.
To its credit, the Independent Education Union (IEU)
BY DICK NICHOLS
"This is not Vietnam", US president Bill Clinton announced during a one-day trip to the northern Colombian city of Cartagena in late August. Clinton was launching "Plan Colombia", the goal of which is to tame the country's guerrilla
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — In recent weeks, the Woomera detention centre has been the focus of media attention, following allegations that the centre's management had covered up the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy at the centre. There have
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