International – Page 606

International notes

July 4, 2003

China: Gov’t ratifies ASEAN treaty China’s top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, ratified the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia on June 28. The original treaty was signed in February...

Israeli ‘refuseniks’ go to trial

July 4, 2003

TEL-AVIV – The court room at the central military court here was packed with families, friends and others in solidarity with the five conscientious objectors, who had been dragged to stand trial on June 24. But...

Iraqi workers up against U.S. corporations

July 4, 2003

U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW), a nationwide network of labor groups, recently presented an exposé of the U.S. corporate invasion of Iraq under cover of the U.S.-British occupation. The report was presented to the Workers’...

Israeli Communist leader Meir Vilner dies at 84

July 1, 2003

Meir Vilner, veteran leader of the Communist Party of Israel and the last living signatory of Israel’s Independence Charter, died June 5 in Tel-Aviv at 84. Vilner was born in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in...

Britain not quite a parallel media universe

July 1, 2003

Opinion The people of Britain and the United States are living in parallel, yet substantively different, media universes. Bonds of language and overlaps of mass culture are obvious. But a visit to London quickly illuminates the...