Support the right to organise
On May 29, the Federal Court fined two union officials $20,000 each for refusing to apologise to the court after being found guilty of contempt.
The court had earlier found Dean Mighell and Craig Johnston, both
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Police withdraw charge against Aboriginal academic
BY BILL MASON
POLICE HAVE dropped charges against a prominent Aboriginal academic whom they strip-searched and jailed after she allegedly accused a police officer of "acting like the Ku Klux
The following is abridged from an account of the situation in Mindanao distributed on May 29 by the Revolutionary Workers Party of the Philippines. The situation in Mindanao, and the Philippines as a whole, is becoming worse, politically and
World Bank's pipeline to disaster
BY SEAN HEALY
Having given up on getting the World Bank to comply with even its own environmental and social development policies, 200 non-government organisations from 55 countries have called for the
Developments in International Socialists' debate list
The last issue of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly reported on a factional debate within the International Socialist Tendency and the establishment of an email list to distribute information and discuss the
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
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
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
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
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