The Cuban Freedom and Democratic Solidarity Act, better known as the Helms-Burton Act, is causing a major rift between the US and governments all over the world. On July 16 President Bill Clinton was forced to delay implementation
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July 26 is the 43rd anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks by a small group of badly armed young Cuban revolutionaries, an attack which failed in its immediate aim but which is considered the day that launched the
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In the clearest example of its hostile intentions and a blatant grab for votes from the Cuban exile community in the November US presidential elections, the Clinton government has signed the Helms-Burton bill into law. The
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Profiting from the Cuba blockadeMuch has been made in the establishment's media of Gareth Evans' recent trip to Cuba. While he cited human rights and debt repayment concerns, the main reason for Evans' trip — the first
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"Exciting and unique", is how Kathy Fairfax describes the 1995 Work/Study Brigade to Nicaragua. Fairfax is helping organise the brigade, which will spend a month in Latin America in June-July 1995. The trip is being
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The Senate inquiry into possible commercial influence over ABC television programming appears to have largely evaded the larger issue of the commercialisation of the ABC by the federal Labor government. An
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SYDNEY — Juan Jacinto Herrera, a Cuban percussionist, singer, pianist and composer has teamed up with some of Sydney's top Latino musicians in Cubana-Oz for a Cuba-Australian experience at the Latin American Dance Fiesta at the
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SYDNEY — "Clearly, with the expansion of all forms of punishment in NSW, what we are seeing is not a crime wave but a punishment wave", states a review of prisons in NSW by the Inter-Church Committee on Prison Reform. The
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SYDNEY — Only 12 months old, Black Power Clothing is taking off in Australia. It features T-shirts and other apparel with slogans by people such as Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison ("I am invisible, understand, simply because
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SYDNEY — The Sydney Water Board is planning to axe 3000 jobs over the next two years. On February 17, the Water and Maritime Industry Union released a document from the board which proposed a restructuring that would involve
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SYDNEY — Around 70 people packed into the Art Resistance video studio here recently for the premiere of a new video on Bougainville. Bougainville: Australia's Hidden War was produced by Actively Radical TV, a community-based
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WOLLONGONG — Supporters of women denied work in BHP's Port Kembla steelworks picketed a BHP shareholders' meeting in Sydney on September 25. The women, many of them supporting families on unemployment benefits, made the trip