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Issues and Topics

The conference consisted of a series of workshops, feature talks, panels, country reports plus a conference dinner and cabaret and cultural night. Topics and issues covered included:

• The economic and political crisis in Asia
• The left and meeting the crisis in the Philippines
• Democracy and colonialism in the Pacific
• The struggle for indigenous rights in Australia
• The struggle against military dictatorships: Burma, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey
• The regional environmental crisis
• Imperialism's new neo-liberal initiatives: from APEC to IMF interventions
• Women's oppression and the struggle for liberation in Asia and the Pacific
• Overthrowing Suharto and beyond: the movements in Indonesia and East Timor
• Strategies for victory in East Timor
• Strategies for defeating neo-liberalism: Parties, movements, NGOs.
• Economic and political developments in Japan
• The workers struggle in South Korea
• Challenges for the Indonesian opposition
• The Left in South Asia
• Countering APEC, defeating neo-liberalism, ending repression: prospects and projects