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
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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
By Mike Karajis
SYDNEY — "The worst round of violence between Israel and Lebanon-based guerillas in 11 years continued unabated despite a drive by the US for a cease-fire. The fighting has killed more than 122 people." This was how the
Old sexism: new perspective
In the United States, about a year ago, the prisoners at the Georgia Women's Correctional Institute, in Hardwick, Georgia, brought a civil suit against that institution. The prisoners allege that the institute's
By Norm Dixon
SYDNEY — Popo Molefe, a member of the National Working Committee of the African National Congress National Executive Committee and head of the ANC's Election Commission, addressed a meeting of ANC supporters on August 5. He
Comment by John Maitland
Australia's mining corporations have been leading the crusade against the High Court's Mabo decision, which recognises native title and puts an end to the doctrine of terra nullius — the lawyers' pretence that
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