By Adam Hanieh
ADELAIDE — It was enough to bring tears to the eyes of any True Believer. Two hundred people cram into the beer garden of the Exeter Hotel. The atmosphere is restless. Someone gets up and sings a few working-class songs.
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By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — Despite a great deal of selfless work and a steady increase in their political authority, non-communist leftists in Russia have until now failed to establish a mass political organisation.
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A look into privatisation
A glimpse of the wonders of privatisation was provided on October 17 when a report tabled in the NSW parliament by the auditor-general, Tony Harris, dredged up the scandal of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel and similar
Arafat writes to prisoners
President Yasser Arafat sent a letter dated September 27 to the Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails, in reply to the many letters he has received.
In his letter, Arafat said, "I have read your
Agency bargaining revived in HSH
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — Agency bargaining in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (HSH) has been resurrected from near death by the national officials of the Community
By Norm Dixon
AMSTERDAM — The besieged people of Tuzla, a large industrial and mining town in Bosnia surrounded by Serbian forces, recently welcomed the 14th convoy of trucks bringing much-needed food aid and political solidarity. The
Scientists, politicians and economists recently gathered in New Zealand for the Greenhouse 94 conference from October 10 to 14. Discussions at the conference confirmed that the heat is on: sea levels are rising, climate patterns are shifting, and the
The Chatto Book of Dissent
By Michael Rosen and David Widgery
Chatto and Windus. 457 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
"Nothing is harder and takes more character than to stand in open opposition to one's time and loudly
By Stephen Robson
Is the English royal family on a course of self-destruction? With the release of the book The Prince of Wales: A Biography by the broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Dimbleby we are treated to yet another episode in the
Rallies for marijuana legalisation
By Nick Everett and Anne Pavy
BRISBANE — 1000 people marched here on October 21 to demand the legalisation of marijuana in Queensland.
Speakers included representatives from HEMP
DSS dispute escalates
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — Community and Public Sector Union members in the Department of Social Security voted on October 19 to escalate industrial action in a dispute over staffing and resources.
Looking out: Smiles, age and wisdom
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Everyone has been a child. All can understand through muffled memory how childhood was. But none has been old except those who are that now." — Bert Kruger Smith
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