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UN resolution backs end to US blockade of Cuba By Deepa Fernandes HAVANA — For the sixth time in six years, the United Nations General Assembly on November 5 overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for the end to Washington's more than
By Lachlan Malloch SYDNEY — Left-wing student activists narrowly lost the Macquarie University Students' Council (MUSC) elections held on October 27-29. Ten votes and one councillor were all that separated the left and right factions after
Protests against forest agreement By Tony Iltis HOBART — The signing of the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) on November 8 provoked a week of angry protests by environmentalists. The RFA gives $70 million to the logging industry;
Debate on post-Kernot politics BRISBANE — Thirty people gathered at the Resistance Centre on October 29 to hear a discussion about how to build a progressive alternative to the two-party system in the wake of Cheryl Kernot's defection to the
ANC Youth League bids for private prisons By Norm Dixon The African National Congress Youth League has put a new spin on the slogan "From the politics of liberation to the politics of reconstruction". According to the November 8
By Jackie Moon MELBOURNE — The Victorian Department of Education has introduced a program to train around 100 year 10-12 students completing the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) in the multi-national hamburger chain, McDonald's. David
By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — Around 40,000 workers gathered on November 12 for the second Victorian Trades Hall Council-organised rally against the state government's proposed changes to the WorkCover scheme. The crowd marched to Parliament
The Mask of Motherhood: How Mothering Changes Everything and Why We Pretend it Doesn'tBy Susan MaushartRandom House345 pp., $17.95 Review by Pip Hinman At last! A book on mothering which isn't a how-to, but a how-is. Susan Maushart's The Mask of
Protesters condemn Shell During Sydney-wide protests against the Shell oil company on November 10, environmentalists in the Lane Cove River Valley joined Friends of the Earth to picket the Shell service station on Epping Road, in John Howard's
Politics the easiest way Do you want to keep receiving Green Left Weekly for your alternative world view, but have no time to resubscribe? Are you disturbed by the fact that you can't find your renewal slip even though one has been sent out
Residents oppose nuclear waste dump By Tony Iltis HOBART — Residents of the suburb of New Town have reacted angrily to a state government proposal to store a cubic metre of radioactive waste under St Johns Park, adjacent to a child-care
Feminists discuss how to fight back By Zanny Begg BRISBANE — Thirty women attended a meeting of the International Women's Day Collective on November 10 to hear several speakers and to formulate demands for the 1998 IWD rally. Shannon