By Antonio Paneque Brizuelas
RAMSEY CLARK entered the Cuban Red Cross building in Havana, where a shipment of insulin from the US company Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals was handed over in a modest ceremony. The first question put to him when we sat
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ACT Greens in federal by-election
By Gosta Lynga
CANBERRA — The ACT Greens are standing James Warden, environmentalist, historian of politics and writer, as their candidate in the March 25 by-election for the seat of Canberra, formerly
As the head of the Greens' Legislative Council ticket, long-term peace and environmental activist IAN COHEN has a good chance of being elected the first Green member of the NSW parliament on March 25. (He missed out by only a few hundred votes in the
Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences
By James R. Mellow
Hodder & Stoughton, 1994. 704 pp., $29.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Ernest Hemingway: a splendid storyteller, but a pity about the politics. After reading Mellow's biography of
UNSW staff vote to support student strike
By Helen Jarvis
The academic staff union at UNSW has voted to support the National Day of Action on March 23, by cancelling classes and holding a stop-work meeting.
A well-attended meeting of
By Margaret Gleeson
ADELAIDE — An amendment to the Metal Trades Federation of Unions' (MTFU) national executive recommendation, which would have set a minimum of 15% for wage increases sought in enterprise agreements, was narrowly defeated at
For Mary McNish, secretary of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, the "frightening thing" about the recent escalation in law-and-order hysteria "is that the government sees that it's their right to interfere with the hard-won justice system we've
Journalists arrested in Jakarta
Ahmad Taufik, chairperson of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), another member, Liston P. Siregar, and the outspokenly critical member of parliament, Sri Bintang Pamungkas, were arrested during a
by Max Lane
Fifteen members of a police security unit from the central Jakarta police command raided the offices of the PIJAR Foundation on March 9. PIJAR (Information Centre and Action Network for Reform) is an organisation of students and
By Alison Dellit
Students and academics around the country will be striking on March 23 to protest against the introduction of up-front fees. The actions were called from the National No Fees Conference in late December, in response to new waves
By Liang Guosheng
"We have advanced technology as well as experienced construction teams. The difficulty is how to resettle over 1.2 million evacuees."
So runs a remark attributed to Chinese Premier Li Peng, published in the Chinese Daily
Indonesian activist speaks
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Dita Sari, general secretary of the Indonesian Centre for Working Class Struggle (PPBI) was here last week as a guest of the International Women's Day Collective.
"Women of the
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