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Environment and social justice in El Salvador

Dr RICARDO NAVARRO, president and executive director of CESTA (the Salvadoran Centre for Appropriate Technology), is being toured around Australia and New Zealand by the Overseas Services Bureau. CESTA was founded in 1980 in response to the

South African cops invented 'necklace' murders

By Norm Dixon An inquest into the 1985 murders of several political activists by South African security forces has heard evidence that police pioneered the grisly practice of "necklacing". South Africa's progressive weekly New Nation

A well-earned happy ending

The Heartbreak Kid Directed by Michael Jenkins Written by Richard Barrett and Michael Jenkins With Claudia Karvan, Alex Dimitriades, Steven Bastoni, Nico Lathouris At Hoyts Cinemas Reviewed by Max Lane Heartbreak Kid packs a lot

Anti-choice movement exploits media law

By Joy McEntee Hobart — Five churches in the Hobart suburb of Moonah, where the state's only independent abortion clinic is located, have mounted an inter-denominational roster of weekly prayer meetings for mothers and unborn children.

Indonesian workers group condemns ACTU

Indonesian workers group condemns ACTU The Jakarta-based worker support organisation Yayasan Maju Bersama (YMB — Advance Together Foundation) has called for Australian unions to boycott plans by the ACTU and the Australian government to

Protest against US bombing of Baghdad

Protest against US bombing of Baghdad By Jenny Long SYDNEY — Around 120 people gathered outside the US Consulate on June 29 to protest against the cruise missile bombing of Baghdad by the United States. The protest, which was called by

Public services on Qld hit list

Public services on Qld hit list By Bill Mason BRISBANE — In the latest of a series of planned savage cutbacks in the Queensland public sector, up to 12,000 government workers could lose their jobs in the education and health area, it

Declining support for Yeltsin's project

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — "The enthusiasm voiced in 1990 and 1991 for all types of private property has ... declined, as people have become familiar with the concrete embodiment of abstract principles in practice." Not an outlandish

Jimmy Cliff fills some big shoes

Breakout Jimmy Cliff JRS Records through Festival Reviewed by Norm Dixon Jimmy Cliff is without doubt the best loved, most sincere and most political Jamaican reggae artist around. Being the best known survivor of the classic

World Heritage for Lake Eyre Basin?

By Lisa O'Neill and Dave Hemming ADELAIDE — World Heritage listing for key sites in the Lake Eyre Basin has been mooted since at least 1985, but still remains to be accomplished. Public pressure on the issue is now beginning to build

Nicaraguans mark anniversary of revolution

By Jackie Coleman MANAGUA — In the first of a series of mobilisations leading up to the celebration of the 1979 revolution on July 19, Sandinistas commemorated the 14th annual "Repliegue" on June 26. The original Repliegue was the

No room for Le Pen

No room for Le Pen France's National Front führer, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and his European Right faction in the European parliament had to cancel a planned conference in Edinburgh when all the hotels refused to accommodate them. The