GLW issue 84, published 1993-01-20.

Russia's new premier changes little

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — After the stirring events of mid-December, when the Congress of People's Deputies managed to sack acting Premier Yegor Gaidar despite Boris Yeltsin's desire to keep him in office, few Russians were expecting

US renews war in the Gulf

By Sean Malloy More than 110 warplanes, from the United States, France and Britain, were involved in the January 14 attack which bombed at least five places in southern Iraq in half an hour. The majority of Australian daily newspapers

Will Pol Pot return to power?

By Helen Jarvis PHNOM PENH —Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has made a dramatic appeal to the United Nations to take action "to safeguard the Cambodian people from the second Khmer Rouge genocide and to rescue the Paris agreements".

Population and environment: a reply

By Mark O'Connor The comment by Peter Boyle in the November 11 Green Left contained some serious misinformation about Paul Ehrlich's important I=PAT equation. This equation indicates that for a given country or region — with the

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Australian News

Bleak prospects for Tasmania

Bleak prospects for Tasmania By Ben Courtice HOBART — Unemployment in Tasmania reached 12.6% according to seasonally adjusted figures released on January 14. This is the highest figure recorded in Australia since monthly surveys

SA Liberals threaten to privatise transport

SA Liberals threaten to privatise transport By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — Proposals from the state Liberal Party demonstrate that this city's already debilitated public transport system is going to be further eroded following a change

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International News

Growing role for women in Irish republican movement

By Catherine Brown DUBLIN — Just before Ireland voted on the three-part abortion referendum on November 25, Anne Speed, a trade union organiser and Sinn Fein candidate in the previous election, talked to Green Left Weekly about the last 10

NZ Alliance carries hopes of the young

By Elle Morrell AUCKLAND — When the New Zealand Labour government was turned out of office in 1990, the party was at an all-time low in popularity. Then, within months of being elected in a landslide, the incoming National Party government

Further International News

Editorial

'Mad Dog' Kennett, Labor and elections

'Mad Dog' Kennett, Labor and elections After a decade in office the Western Australian Labor government, with absolutely nothing to recommend it, goes to the polls on February 6. It won't campaign on the basis of a dynamic record of

Cultural Dissent

French farce meets Hollywood epic

Indochine Directed by Regis Wargnier Starring Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne Reviewed by Steve Painter I'd like to be able to say something nice about Indochine, a film coming up for commercial release off

Moulding the minds of Israeli children

Moulding the minds of Israeli children By Miriam Tramer Izkor (Slaves of Memory), shown at the Israeli film festival at the end of last year, is a film about the way the Israeli education system moulds the minds of young people to

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