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Eliseo Balcazar

Eliseo Balcazar Eliseo Balcazar, a Guatemalan trade union activist and revolutionary, died in Melbourne on January 16 at the age of 56. His entire adult life was spent in the shadow of the Guatemalan military dictatorship. After an apprenticeship

Indonesian high school students in the struggle

Resistance magazine's Chris Latham spoke with visiting People's Democratic Party (PRD) student leader Wahyu about the development of the high school student movement in Indonesia. Question: How has the involvement of high school students in the

Looking out: Academic freedom

Academic freedom By Brandon Astor Jones "Responsible journalism is journalism responsible in the last analysis to the editor's own conviction of what, whether interesting or only important, is in the public interest." — Walter Lippmann,

Mobil linked to atrocities in Aceh

By Lisa Macdonald Mobil Oil Indonesia, the country's biggest producer of natural gas, is linked to serious human rights violations in the north Sumatran region of Aceh in Indonesia. The company is a joint venture between US-based oil giant Mobil

Rosa Luxemburg: profile of a revolutionary

Rosa Luxemburg: profile of a revolutionary By Ella McHenry On January 9, 100,000 people marched through the streets of Germany to commemorate the death of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Demonstrators carried red flags, and some of the more

Noises from the new Durban

dURBAN NOISE and scrapsWORKSInitiated and produced by Jürgen BräuningerLyrics by Ari SitasSend cheque for $30 (order GSE Claremont CD AM31) to the NSW Phonograph Society, M-J Hanna, Lot 58, Forest Gum Place, Greystanes, NSW 2145; or order

Oil giants, military attack Niger delta communities

While the west is lauding the Nigerian military dictatorship's "transition to democracy", the regime has launched a campaign of murder and rape to crush an uprising by the peoples of the Niger River delta in the south.

German left debates its orientation to social democracy

By Eva Cheng COLOGNE — The Social Democratic Party's (SPD) September victory, coming to government in alliance with the Greens, ended 16 years of rule of the conservative Christian Democratic Party and raised hopes that it might turn its back on

May-June marches for a people's movement in Europe

By Eva Cheng COLOGNE — The mobilisations for a new round of Euromarches against crushing unemployment and other attacks of the ruling classes against working people were kicked off here by a well-attended preparatory conference of close to 640

Calling all counter-culturalists

UK writer and editor Alan Dearling is planning a new book on counter-culture in Australia. To be put together with Mook from the Byron Bay Rainboweb, it will be a follow-up to a number of publications Dearling has been involved in in the UK and

Sri Lankan elections 'a fraud'

Sri Lankan elections 'a fraud' The January 25 Wayamba provincial elections in Sri Lanka have been condemned as a "fraud beyond all imagination orchestrated by the PA [People's Alliance] government". Speaking on the day of the poll, the New Left

Iraqis sacrificed on the altar of oil

By Norm Dixon The US massacred at least 11 Iraqi civilians, and wounded 59 others, in missile attacks on January 25. Air strikes on Iraq continue almost daily. In December, the four-night bombardment of Iraq killed 82 civilians and 62 soldiers. The