By Michael Tardif and Sujatha Fernandes
COLOMBO — The Korea-Ceylon Footwear Manufacturing Company is a joint venture in the Colombo free trade zone. In the last four months the company has been the site of significant workers' struggles and is
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By Norm Dixon
DETROIT — Walking along Michigan Avenue is a depressing experience. Forget the glitz and glamour on TV: this is the real United States. One of the Motor City's main thoroughfares, Michigan Avenue is symbolic of the crisis of US
Actively Radical TV — This week's program, Bougainville: Australia's Genocidal War, features an interview with Moses Havini, representative of the Bougainville Interim Government. A short documentary looks at the history of colonialism in
From the brontosaurus's mouth
"The ACTU secretary, Mr Bill Kelty, has warned that unions are doomed in Australia unless they stop being big bureaucratic organisations and get closer to both members and new recruits." — Sydney Morning Herald,
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Coal miners in Russia are moving toward an all-out confrontation with the government following a massive one-day warning strike on February 8.
The first all-Russian stoppage to be organised jointly by the
The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht
By John Fuegi
Harper Collins. 732 pp., $39.95, (hb)
Reviewed by Dave Riley
As the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, word went out that this action drew on the inspiration of "the three B's" — Biermann,
By Anthony Brown
Since discovering what appears to be a major oil find in the Timor Gap in February 1994, Brisbane-based oil and gas company Petroz NL has been the focus of protests over Australian exploitation of the situation in East Timor.
By Karen Fletcher
SYDNEY — Nearly 10,000 anti-woodchipping protesters encircled the NSW Parliament House on February 19 in a spirited show of strength.
Many participants had made their own placards and banners, expressing anger at both
Poem: Timor
em = By John Tomlinson
Chorus:
Obrigado, thankyou, grazie
East Timor will be free
the people of this troubled world
will end their tyranny.
Don't look away
don't hide your eyes
or turn your faces to the wall
200,000
Police freed in abduction of Aboriginal children
By Mick White
BRISBANE — Magistrate Robert Quinlan on February 24 dismissed charges against six police who had previously admitted to abducting and terrorising three Aboriginal children.
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