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INDONESIA: Workers demonstrate at legislature

INDONESIA: Workers demonstrate at legislature Although most of the protests in Jakarta during the annual session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) were relatively small, the final day of the session, August 18, drew

S11: Training camp prepares activists

Training camp prepares activists for S11 BY MARCEL CAMERON MELBOURNE — Forty activists attended a lively "socialist training camp" near Ballarat in country Victoria to prepare for the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum summit

Bribery and big business: making the International Oylmpic Committee run

Bribery and big business: making the IOC run REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON The Great Olympic Swindle: When the World Wanted its Games BackBy Andrew JenningsSimon & Schuster, 2000390pp., $22.76 (pb) "And the winner is ... the IOC!" Wild cheering for

EAST TIMOR: Anger rises at UN failure to rebuild

DILI — Its 4.45pm and the heat is stifling. There is a crowd of students at the door, smiling at me hopefully. Some have travelled miles on foot, on top of buses and in carts to get here. Word had spread that English courses are being offered at

'No increased military powers!'

'No increased military powers!' BY KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — Chanting "Tax the rich, not the poor. Money for jobs, not for war!", protesters braved rain to demonstrate their opposition to increased military spending at the federal government's

Welfare 'reform' aims to attack the poor

Welfare 'reform' aims to attack the poor The Coalition government is carrying out a "reform" of the social security, or "welfare", system. This is part of its multifaceted policy for shifting the burden of the problems of the economy onto poor and

MEXICO: Democracy faces its hardest test

RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS — Mexico's new national government of Vicente Fox hasn't taken office yet, but already it confronts its thorniest political problem. This challenge comes not from the country's former governing party, the Institutional

Indonesian appeals for Australian union aid

BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — Romawaty Sinaga, the international officer of the militant Indonesian National Front for Workers Struggle (FNPBI), in Australia to meet other trade unionists, has appealed for greater assistance for the emerging independent

BASQUE COUNTRY: ETA violence hinders Basque struggle

BASQUE COUNTRY: ETA violence hinders Basque struggle 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's SARAH PEART spoke to MIKEL ARAVA ETXEZARRETA from the United Left executive in the Basque Country about the state of the struggle for Basque self-determination. Question:

EUROPE: Activists to take on the IMF and World Bank

OXFORD, England — Over the past year, European activists have watched large political mobilisations unfold in the United States with keen interest. Although Europe has not recently witnessed a demonstration on the scale of the Seattle anti-World

Aboriginal Tent Embassy set to stay

Aboriginal Tent Embassy set to stay BY JENNIFER THOMPSON SYDNEY — With a Land and Environment Court injunction looming, an agreement between police, South Sydney Council and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was reached on August 23 which allows the

Indigenous Americans celebrate unity

Indigenous Americans celebrate unity BY BILL NEVINS ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Turtle Island, Aztlan, the Land of the People: these are all names for the sacred places where the varied indigenous peoples of the Americas thrived for untold