Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SUNDARAM Jomo Kwame
This paper was presented to the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, Sydney, April 12, 1998 by Professor Jomo K. Sundaram, Faculty of Economics, University of Malaya.
Basically, my argument is that the East Asian economic crisis is not what it is often reported to be. There was, in the early (…)
The Philippine Left
, by JESANI Amar
Revised version of the paper presented at the symposium on “Reforming India’s social sector: Strategies and prospects” organised by Department of Economics, Mumbai University, as a part of its Platinum Jubilee Celebration, at Indian Merchant Chambers on April 16-17, 1998.
There are two major (…)
, by CPP (Philippines), Editor
The CPP document regulating the romantic and sexual relations of party-members.
Introductory note
We are publishing here a translation of the document of the Communist Party of the Philippines regulating the romantic and sexual relationships of party-members. A similar policy has been (…)
, by SEN Sukla
WITH the dissolution of the 11 th Lok Sabha on December 4, 1997 the Indian media, almost as a body, have launched a concerted propaganda barrage to overwhelm the public with three meticulously manufactured Impressions. One, now the only issue before the Indian electorate is the stability of the (…)
, by BACON David
In addition to his articles, photographs on the Philippines can be found on David Bacon’s website:
DAPITAN, PHILIPPINES (1/15/98) — How do you break a dockworkers union in the Philippines?
With children.
At least, that’s how it was done last year in Dapitan, a port city on the southern (…)
, by BOURCHIER David
David Bourchier looks at the new generation of military leaders, after a big shakeup between July and October 1997
Inside Indonesia has been published in print since 1983 and online since 1996. Today its online archive includes over 1,200 articles (and growing) relating to Indonesia, its (…)
, by BULLARD Nicola
Rioting, demonstrations, escalating unemployment and the resignation of President Soeharto notwithstanding, the Indonesian government was able to keep to the IMF’s schedule for selecting which state owned enterprises would be privatised and which institutions had been given the nod as their (…)
, by JESANI Amar
Introduction: India’s health care service system is very complex. This is compounded by inadequacy of reliable and consistent data on services, particularly on the services provided by the private sector. Indeed, till mid-1980s, there had been scanty attention paid to documenting information (…)
, by BACON David
In addition to his articles, photographs on the Philippines can be found on David Bacon’s website:
Roberto Sabanal had been picketing Dole Corporation’s banana groves from the very beginning of the strike. His own plantation was shut down tight. But on the dirt roads snaking through the trees (…)
, by Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
Noi is a 26 years old woman who has studied only at the primary school level. At present she is staying with her mother and sister in Saphanmai area, Bangkok. She earns her living by cooking food to order.
Three years ago, Noi decided to have a relationship with a man who she later discovered (…)
, by YIMPRASERT Junya Lek
In 1992, Boon Siwala, from a village in Naklang District, Nongbua Lampoo Province, was persuaded by his relative to go to work in Singapore. Boon and six of his friends from the village agreed to go to work in Singapore. Though they all knew that they would work illegally, the poverty of their (…)
The dossier “The struggle for democracy in Indonesia” “Dita Indah Sari: Jailed for daring to struggle” was prepared by ASIET (Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor) in co-operation with the People’s Democratic Party. Published and distributed jointly by ASIET (Australia), (…)
Forest fires in Indonesia have blanketed Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Southern Thailand and the Southern Philippines in thick smoke blocking out the sun and choking tens of millions of people.
Within South-east Asia it’s called the ‘haze’ – an innocuous word which deliberately plays down the (…)
, by LEW Roland
China’s increasingly prominent role in international affairs has given special significance to the 15th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party which was held this September shortly after the death of Deng Xiaoping. In striking contrast to its reluctance to implement political change, the party (…)
, by ANDERSON Benedict
Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal, translated by Soledad Lacson-Locsin, Hawaii, 451 pp, $47.00, June 1997, ISBN 0 8248 1917 9
Few countries give the observer a deeper feeling of historical vertigo than the Philippines. Seen from Asia, the armed uprising against Spanish rule of 1896, which (…)
, by ASAP
Dita was born in Jakarta on December 30, 1972, but grew up in Medan, North Sumatra, where her father worked. After her parents were divorced in the early eighties, she returned to Jakarta. In 1991, she enrolled at the prestigious University of Indonesia to study law. In an interview where Dita (…)
, by GREENFIELD Gerard, LEONG Apo
Labour resistance is growing in China’s savage market economy. Those foreign Marxists with any illusions in “actually existing market socialism” should take a hard look at the facts.
We have entered an era of silence and forgetting. Silence and uncritical acceptance of the logic of (…)
, by YUFAN Liu
There is no doubt that the Chinese Communist Party will keep its promise of ’one country two systems’ now that Hong Kong is again part of China. Beijing has the utmost respect for the British administration’s free market policies.
Beijing has appointed a local tycoon, Tung Chee Wah, as the (…)
, by LAWLESS Terry
Violence has taken centre stage in South Korean student politics, after two suspected police informers were beaten to death by militants of the radical student union Hanchongnyon. Terry Lawless reports from Seoul.
A five day battle between riot police and student supporters of the National (…)
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