Mandela asked to help Nigerians
Earthlife Africa, at the request of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, is urging South African President Nelson Mandela to make representations to the Nigerian government for the release of Ken
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By Pip Hunter
Pragmatism rather than principle was what prevented the ALP from expanding its three-mine uranium policy at its national conference, according to many environmentalists. The "pre-cooked" four-day conference, for which
A useful tool for East Timor activists
East Timor Activist Kit
Published by Resistance. $3.00
Available from Resistance bookshops
Reviewed by Arun Pradhan
This booklet is worth getting for the first section alone.
Open Learning — The City of the Bush — This program introduces the Bulletin magazine and some of the writers who contributed to it. The debate between two of the most famous Bulletin writers, "Banjo" Paterson and Henry Lawson — over the
Feminist Book Fair
I am Lidia Falc¢n, feminist writer from Spain, and have had 22 books published in various languages and I came to Melbourne to attend the Sixth International Feminist Book Fair. I realised with surprise and anger that at
Wholly positive
"You sense, as I very strongly do, that the underlying momentum is wholly positive." — Foreign minister Gareth Evans, commenting on an Amnesty International report which says that the Indonesian government is shooting alleged
By Roger Clarke
At the International Green Left Conference in Sydney at Easter, Peter Camejo identified the key problem for the socialist movement as being the isolation of socialists from the necessary agency of socialism — the working
Gorky
By Henri Troyat
Allison & Busby, 1994. 216 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
In 1892, Alexey Peshkov adopted a new name for the publication of his first story in Russia, and Maxim Gorky, "the Bitter One",
On September 13, 1994, the US Environmental Protection Agency released its draft reassessment of dioxin compounds. The term "dioxin compounds" includes not only the most potent dioxin (often called TCDD) but also dioxin-like compounds such as certain
In St Louis, Missouri, on July 30, Dr Barry Commoner gave the keynote address at the Second Citizens' Conference on Dioxin. Following are excerpts.
I am convinced that 1994 will be seen as the year in which — despite every effort of the
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