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Whither the people’s agenda?
Polling day in Sarawak is on 20 May but, withTaib Mahmud in power for 25 longyears, Sarawakians are distinctly unexcited about the elections. How and why has the chief minister dominated Sarawak...
View ArticleUMNO Youth: Stop threatening
Something must be done to curb the ethnic “champions” and hotheads relishing a confrontation, says P Ramakrishnan. UMNO Youth is at it again. In what must be perceived as conduct unbecoming, some 50...
View ArticleSomething smells in Bolehland
… and it's not just the water, says Ong Eu Soon, in expressing horror that contaminated water could be channelled into our drinking water supply system. “We cannot survive as a species, if greed is...
View ArticleSqueezing oil out of workers
The working class would be the most affected group due to the recent unprecedented 30-sen oil hike. On the one hand, the Government has given a free hand to capitalists to exploit and squeeze the...
View ArticleBrewing – Formation of a rival to MTUC
Veteran unionist K George sadly reports that a group of five unions led by Abdul Razak Hassan of the Railwaymen’s Union of Malaysia is planning to split from the MTUC. They are aligned to Zainal Rampak...
View ArticleAnother world is possible
In another world, religion will not be a tool of exploitation in the hands of exploiters, but it will be a powerful weapon in the hands of the poor and the oppressed, says Asghar Ali Engineer. For the...
View ArticleLiving in Limbo-land
Some 20,000 ethnic Indians have been denied their right to identity and citizenship, says Ramdas Tikamdas. These are the “invisible Malaysians” who encounter unimaginable difficulties in accessing or...
View ArticleHonour or horror?
The concept of women as the property of men is so deeply entrenched in the social, political and economic fabric of some communities that they routinely ignore the daily occurences of women being...
View ArticleImagine a city with 30 per cent fewer cars
Low-tech transit is the fastest route to a great city, says a Brazilian architect, Jaime Lerner, who wants to give the bus a makeover. The former mayor of the Brazilian city of Curitiba, population 1.7...
View ArticleSqueezed and silenced
If the government is committed to uplifting workers, it should encourage them to unionise, says K George. Labour Day falls on 1 May. It is celebrated by workers in almost all parts of the world, except...
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