Chomsky in Canberra
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — Noam Chomsky addressed the National Press Club here on January 24, speaking on East Timor as a microcosm of world order. The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in 1975, he said, has required
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By Carlos Tautz
RIO de JANEIRO — There are tanks in the streets. The army is ready for combat. Masked soldiers, armed with modern guns, violently search even pregnant women and children of eight and nine years old. Those who don't prove they
Looking out: Queen Nzinga
By Brandon Astor Jones
Like just about every other European nation, the Portuguese waged war upon blacks in Africa. Contrary to popular historical belief, the various black peoples of Africa have been defending
By Sam Wainwright
BRISBANE — More than 500 people marched and rallied on January 24 against Eastlink, a $1.2 billion project of the Queensland, NSW and federal governments to link the NSW and Queensland electricity grids with 1500 kilometres
Actively Radical TV — Knowing precisely what is screening when on Sydney's community television station, CTA, is still a bit of a hit and miss affair. However, the most consistent program is put together by the team from Actively Radical TV. It
By Alex Bainbridge
— Several unions have threatened to withdraw election funding to the ALP head office unless it agrees to hold a rank and file preselection ballot for the seat of Peats, on the central coast of NSW.
Peats became vacant
Plutonium waste to pass through Australian waters
By Lisa Renfrey
Greenpeace, the Tasmanian Greens and Greens (WA) Senator Dee Margetts are calling on the federal government to oppose a shipment of high level plutonium waste passing through
BRISBANE — "Year after year we keep saying the same things to the government — Aboriginal people want a chance!", Sam Watson of the Aboriginal Legal Service told a rally of 150 people here on January 26, Invasion Day. Other speakers included
Disclosure
Directed by Barry Levinson
Written by Paul Attanasio (based on the novel by Michael Crichton)
Starring Demi Moore and Michael Douglas
Reviewed by Karen Fletcher
Backlash films certainly get the blood boiling, but they are also
Sinead and the Famine
Universal Mother
Sinead O'Connor
Ensign
Reviewed by Tyrion Perkins
Sinead O'Connor's latest album begins with Germaine Greer speaking about women making politics irrelevant by a spontaneous cooperative action.
ALP and Lenin
It is good that Jim McIlroy (GLW 171) has conceded that working in the ALP may be of some use, even if it is to be a "subsidiary tactic".
The use of an article written [by Lenin] in 1916 to resolve a tactical question in 1995
By Stephen Marks
HAVANA â 1995 has been declared the International Year of Jos Mart¡ and October 8 the possible date of a World Day in Solidarity with Cuba. These were among proposals adopted by the plenary session of the World Conference in
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