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EAST TIMOR: CNRT leaders form new social democratic party

DILI — The newest addition to East Timor's political landscape was declared formally at the National Council of Timorese Resistance headquarters on September 20: the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The founders and key leaders of the PSD are

Godfrey Hirst workers win pay increase

BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS GEELONG — Production workers at the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory here have voted to accept a company offer of a 5% pay rise over 11 months, after a successful industrial campaign involving work bans, 24- and 48-hour strikes and

Networker: Personal and insecure

Personal and insecure By Greg Harris Bluetooth is the new buzz word in the network world. This is a standard endorsed by dozens of the world's largest computer corporations. It allows two computerised devices near each other to

On the box

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,

Labor plan to close Tasmanian schools

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — The state Labor government has a plan to close schools in Tasmania, disguised by the promise that "no school will be forced to close". The value of this promise is revealed by the dispute that has erupted over the plan

and ain't i a woman?: Funny, we just don't get it

During television coverage of the Olympic Games, the first of three US-only Nike advertisements aired. US TV viewer Brian Anastasi described one of the ads on the AriseAction email discussion list: "[It opens] with a woman taking her shirt off,

PAKISTAN: Reinstatement of sugar workers demanded

HYDERABAD — A rally on September 17 demanded the reinstatement of sacked workers at different sugar mills in Sind. The rally, organised by Labour Party Pakistan, started from Beldia Chouk and ended at the Hyderabad Press club building. More than

Che lights up Newcastle

BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN NEWCASTLE — The Che Guevara sign, which hangs at the front of Newcastle's new Resistance Centre, was formally switched on on September 22. Abelardo Cueto Sosa, a member of the International Relations Department of the Central

John Trudell and the poetry of resistance

BY BILL NEVINS TAOS, New Mexico — John Trudell, founder/leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, is now a movie star (Thunderheart and Smoke Signals), a recording artist (with albums Graffiti Man and his latest, Blue Indians),

IRAN: Union leader jailed

The Ministry of Information and security forces of the Iranian government have summoned the president of the Saqqez bakers' union, Mahmoud Salehi, back to prison. Last year, Salehi and four other members of the union were imprisoned for four months

Who's to blame for increasing petrol prices?

BY SUE BOLAND Blockades and protests against rising petrol prices by truck drivers, farmers and fisherpeople have spread through 14 European countries. In Australia, the Transport Workers Union is planning blockades. Governments, from the United

IRAQ: Water supply was deliberately contaminated

The US-led forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water supply system during the 1991 Gulf War — flagrantly breaking the Geneva Convention and causing thousands of civilian deaths — reported the Glasgow Sunday Herald on September 17. Since the war