East Timor
Australia installs its man in East Timor: Jose Ramos-Horta
By Peter Symonds, July 12, 2006
In what amounts to the culmination of an Australian neo-colonial putsch, Jose Ramos-Horta was formally sworn in as East Timor’s new prime minister on Monday. He replaces Mari Alkatiri, who was p...
Australia continues push for control in East Timor
By Mike Head, July 7, 2006
Having secured the resignation of East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri last week, the Howard government is continuing its thinly veiled efforts, both internally and internationally, to install a co...
Australian-led campaign pressures East Timorese prime minister to resign
By Peter Symonds, June 27, 2006
East Timor’s Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigned yesterday amid an unrelenting campaign backed by the Australian government and media for his ousting. His announcement came less than 24 hours ...
World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party public meetings
The truth about East Timor: Why Australia’s intervention should be opposed
June 21, 2006
The WSWS and Socialist Equality Party unequivocally oppose the Howard government’s military intervention into East Timor and demand the immediate withdrawal of all Australian troops and police f...
Australian government presses ahead with plans to dominate East Timor
By Peter Symonds, June 20, 2006
Having established an army of occupation in East Timor, the Australian government is engaged in ongoing political warfare on several fronts to ensure its predominance over the half-island. In the Unit...
Incriminating documents looted in East Timor
By Mike Head, June 13, 2006
Amid lurid reports in the Australian and international media about the ransacking and burning taking place in the East Timorese capital of Dili, some key looting has gone virtually unreported. On at l...
UN-backed report indicts Indonesia, Australia and US for Timor atrocities
By Mike Head, June 13, 2006
Despite its limited framework (see: “Incriminating documents looted in East Timor”), the report of the East Timor Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) made a series of...
New Zealand joins Australia’s military occupation of East Timor
By John Braddock, June 8, 2006
The New Zealand Labour government last month dispatched nearly 200 troops to support the Australian-led military occupation of East Timor. Underlining the close Australian and New Zealand collaboratio...
Australian foreign minister unveils plans for the colonial occupation of East Timor
By Peter Symonds, June 7, 2006
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer visited East Timor last weekend and laid out the broad outlines of Canberra’s plans to establish a long-term colonial-style occupation of the...
Australia, Timor and oil: the record
By Mike Head, June 6, 2006
In all the Australian media coverage of the Howard government’s latest armed intervention in East Timor, the words “oil” and “gas” are hardly mentioned. Yet control over ...
The looting of East Timor’s Serious Crimes Unit
June 6, 2006
The following contribution was sent to the World Socialist Web Site on May 31 by a former United Nations official in East Timor concerned about the ransacking of East Timor’s Serious Crimes Unit...
Australia continues its unrelenting campaign for “regime change” in East Timor
By Peter Symonds, June 3, 2006
Just over a week after its first troops landed in East Timor, the Australian government is conducting an unrelenting and barely disguised campaign of “regime change” in Dili. Two senior Ea...
