Rally demands end to ocean dumping
HOBART — Four hundred angry people filled the Parliament House lawns for a loud and vibrant march and rally on Saturday, February 26, to voice their objections to Pasminco-EZ's jarosite dumping plans.
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Poll supports ending Cuba embargo
According to an opinion poll released in early February, the majority of Miami's Latino population disagrees with the US embargo against Cuba.
The Miami Herald published the results of the survey, for which
There is no safe place in Serbia for men refugees refusing to do military service in Bosnia, and perhaps the danger will soon be extended to women. The governments of Serbia and of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia have made an agreement under which the
Student's murderer goes free in Belfast
A Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer, who admitted shooting dead Tyrone student Kevin McGovern, was acquitted of murder by the Belfast Crown Court.
Judge Nicholson said RUC man Timothy Hanley had
By Bernie Brian
DARWIN — Jose Gusmao, cousin of jailed East Timorese resistance leader Xanana Gusmao, has called on Prime Minister Paul Keating to support the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM) peace plan.
Gusmao presented a
NEW YORK — Borden Chemicals and Plastics, a limited partnership affiliated with the dairy products conglomerate, on February 18 ordered a shipment of toxic mercury waste returned from South Africa to the Louisiana plant where it was generated,
Dee Margetts
Don't abandon the unemployed
The government must not back away from its belated recognition that unemployment is a major problem which requires some fundamental changes to the economic system.
The Labor government's
'Things always worked this way'
You've arrived on campus and you're wondering which progressive club to join. You're a feminist, concerned about the federal government's cuts to education and wondering how you'll be able to move out of home and
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — The misnamed Freedom Alliance of right-wing parties opposed to South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections on April 26-28 is preparing to plunge this country into civil war, Tokyo Sexwale, has warned. The
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "Green, democratic and socialist — this is the guiding theme of our campaign in the upcoming council elections", Susan Price, Demcratic Socialist candidate for Central ward in the March 26 Brisbane City Council poll,