BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — "Although Indonesia has, like a good child, been obeying the [International Monetary Fund], the economy is not improving", Indonesian union leader Dr Setia Pribadi told a March 15 public meeting here on labour struggles
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“[Sometimes we can find] out who people are by listening to the music
and rhythm they carry in their speech, and theorizing that we are not really
who we are when we are perfect in grammatical sentences (which I think
of as a form of
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — Daewoo's Bupyong factory recommenced operations on March 7 under the guard of 8000 riot police. As 80 buses took workers into the factory about 200 laid-off workers attempted to block them. All were detained by the police.
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne community TV,
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
HANOI — While the historic advances made by revolutionary Cuba in education, health, welfare and other fields have long made for impressive contrasts with the grinding poverty, illiteracy and death from preventable diseases
A landowner group along the Ok Tedi River in PNG's Western Province is demanding more than A$1 million compensation for the destruction of the river system by the Ok Tedi mine, owned by BHP.
The Opp Incorporated Land Group, claiming to represent
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the PreposterousBy Nick CohenVerso, 2000247pp, $35(pb)
"I appreciate there were some people who voted for us who thought we would make a difference. They didn't understand" —
Finding the enemy
Who is the enemy? This is a dilemma for the US military chasing funding
in a post-Soviet era of “peace dividend”.
In Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll's dramatic account of intrigue
and interference in data networks
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — March 9 was the 25th anniversary of the victory of the longest teachers' strike in Australian history, the Warilla strike, a date which was commemorated by a dinner of 60 veterans and supporters here.
In 1976, the
Tahiti's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru was re-elected mayor of the working-class city of Faa'a, near Tahiti's international airport, with an overwhelming majority in the municipal election held March 10-11.
Temaru's election is a big boost
At the founding meeting of the Socialist Alliance on February 17, representatives
of the eight founding parties — the Democratic Socialist Party, the International
Socialist Organisation, Workers Power, Workers Liberty, the Workers League,
the
BY AL GIORDANO
While it is front-page news in South America, US President George Bush's half-billion dollar increase in funds for Plan Colombia — complete with a public relations facelift and attempted name change — has flown under the radar of
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