GLW issue 234, published 1996-06-05.

International guests confirmed for Resistance Conference

A representative of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and the All India Students Association will attend the Resistance national conference, to be held in Melbourne July 5-7. The AISA is a mass organisation with hundreds of thousands of

and ain't i a woman?: Politicians attack right to choose

Politicians attack right to choose On May 20, the Senate voted to ban the "abortion drug" RU486. Independent Senator Brian Harradine, an anti-abortion campaigner, introduced the Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill to restrict the importation of

Action updates

Health workers' bans HOBART — The Health and Community Services Union, representing 4500 workers, has taken industrial action to demand a $50 per week safety net pay rise for workers on low wages. On May 29, industrial bans were imposed which

Out with the old, in with what?

By Sue Riley Beatrix Campbell — feminist, author, film maker and former leader of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) — on a national speaking tour sponsored by the Search Foundation, addressed gatherings in Canberra (May

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Australian News

SA budget a gamble

By Carla Gorton ADELAIDE — The state Liberal government handed down its third budget last week amid speculation that the government is poised to overcome its longstanding deficit. Working people here have been bludgeoned with the State Bank debt

Threat to forests grows

By Lisa Macdonald If more proof was needed of the falsity of the federal Coalition's claim that its proposal to privatise Telstra is motivated by a concern for the environment, its move to allow an expansion of woodchip exports provides it. The

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International News

Russian elections: Yeltsin running scared

Russian elections: Yeltsin running scared By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Is President Boris Yeltsin about to romp home an easy winner in the Russian presidential elections, pulling in the support of previously uncommitted voters and overwhelming

By Maria Sari NEW YORK — Marching over four kilometres through downtown Washington in sweltering 38° heat around 200 activists rounded out the six-month "Million Letters for Mumia" campaign by handing over piles of letters from all over the

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Editorial

World Environment Day

June 5 is World Environment Day. Over the last decade, consciousness about the need to protect the environment has grown to the extent that, these days, youth in particular are clear that humankind can either have an adverse or a benign impact on the

Cultural Dissent

One side of Raymond Williams

Raymond WilliamsBy Fred InglisRoutledge, 1995. 333 pp., $44.95 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon As Cambridge professor of drama as well as political activist, Raymond Williams, who died in 1988, truly earned the respect that most of the left have for

Beneath politics

Global IssuesBy John SeitzBlackwell Publishers, 1995. 257 pp., $39.95Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald On first glance, this book looks like an interesting and environmentally conscious study of the major social and ecological issues confronting the world

Further Cultural Dissent

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