Frank Noakes

  • Paul Foot leaves Mirror

    Paul Foot leaves MirrorLONDON — Respected journalist and author Paul Foot has quit the Daily Mirror after writing a weekly page for 13 years. Foot, a member of the British Socialist Workers Party since 1962,

  • Homosexual law reform in Ireland

    Homosexual law reform in IrelandIn Europe's bastion of reactionary social policy, the newly constructed Fianna Fail-Labour Party government has decided to change Ireland's antiquated laws on homosexual acts, which will

  • British workers threaten their leaders' sleep

    LONDON — There are any number of interesting conferences and meetings to tempt one here. "Unions '93", organised in late May by a dozen unions and the New Statesman & Society magazine with a line-up of unionists —

  • Strike-wave in eastern Europe

    Strike-wave in eastern EuropeOn the eve of the settlement of a two-week strike by east Germany's engineering union, Romanian and Polish workers are walking out. Thirty thousand Romanian steelworkers began strike action on

  • 'Be realistic, do the impossible'

    "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity ...", wrote Charles Dickens of 18th century

  • Greenpeace takes on Czech environmental disaster

    PRAGUE — When Greenpeace activists first came here in 1984, they were shot at while hanging banners from one of Czechoslovakia's ubiquitous smoking chimneys in protest against acid rain. One year ago the environmental

  • East European Social Democrats search for a role

    BUDAPEST — East and central European Social Democratic parties met here on March 12-13 to discuss the problems confronting the region. "For the new Europe" was the latest in a series of conferences hosted by the Hungarian

  • Hesse elections: gains for left and right

    FRANKFURT — Anna Seifert, a Green member of the Frankfurt city parliament, talked to Green Left Weekly about the local elections in the state of Hesse on March 7. Smaller parties of the left and right achieved swings,

  • ANC condemn UNITA

    ANC condemn UNITAJOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress national executive has launched a national campaign of solidarity and support for Angola, and is calling on the international community to take all

  • Petra Kelly on population and hunger

    Petra Kelly on population and hungerThe ongoing debate in Green Left's pages about population could perhaps benefit from consideration of what the late German Green Petra Kelly had to say on the topic. Speaking at the

  • South Africa: 'Victory is in sight'

    JOHANNESBURG — Filling in for a physically exhausted Nelson Mandela, African National Congress chairperson Oliver Tambo addressed 900 delegates from five continents at an international solidarity conference here on February

  • Why there's growing opposition to Maastricht

    LONDON — Even though most Europeans oppose the Maastricht Treaty, the project has the overwhelming support of all major political parties, which dishonestly present the debate as narrow nationalism versus broad Europeanism.