By Nilotpal Basu
A massive popular struggle is rocking Nepal. The struggle is reviving the memories of the huge people's movement for the restoration of democracy in 1990-91.
But the political forces that fought the struggle for
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Connections: The Spirit of Crazy Horse
SBS TV
Thursday, August 19, 8.30 p.m. (8.00 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Ignatius Kim
To understand a people, one must understand their origins, says a Lakota activist interviewed in this moving
Jazzmatazz Volume 1
Guru
Chrysalis Records through EMI
Reviewed by John-Paul Nassif
Jazzmatazz, an experimental fusion of hip-hop and live jazz, is one of the first full-fledged attempts to fuse rap and jazz. It is hosted and compiled
By Hugh Williamson
Japan's economic boom of the late 1980s has run into trouble. Workers are the first to bear the burden — lower wages, higher unemployment, worsening working conditions, and so on.
Wage increases agreed to late March
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Over ten thousand teachers rallied across Queensland on August 5 to protest the cutbacks to the education budget by the state government. The 4000-strong meeting at Brisbane's Festival Hall, plus some 50 other
By Sara Ford
KUWAIT — The first word any Westerner ever picks up in Kuwait is "Inshalah". Its literal meaning is "with God's will or help". But having heard it most often when coupled with unfruitful requests for supplies, assistance,
Call to 'ground Garuda'
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — On August 6 the Campaign for an Independent East Timor (CIET) held a protest vigil outside Garuda airlines highlighting the gross human rights violations of the Indonesian
300 XXXX brewery workers face the sack
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — In a drastic rationalisation of its XXXX brewing operation, Castlemaine Perkins Ltd, owned by Lion Nathan, is pushing through a plan to retrench 300 workers.
Despite
July 31 marked the 72nd anniversary of the South African Communist Party. After it had been outlawed for 40 years, 50,000 people attended the public launch of the SACP as a legal party, outside Soweto in July 1990. Since then its membership has
By Shush Mula and Shlomo Tsazanah
JERUSALEM — In the centre of the city, children between the ages of 8 and 14 are working in a child slave market. It's the Mahane Yehuda market. The children, residents of East Jerusalem, work there every
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