Early in 1995, citizens of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, marked the 1000th day of the siege of their city by the Bosnian Serb army led by Radovan Karadzic. Dr TARIK KUPUSOVIC, mayor of Sarajevo, recently visited Sydney to raise material and moral
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TERESITA CARPIO is an official from the 30,000-strong United Workers of the Philippines (UWP), a trade union federation of mostly women workers, based in Metro-Manila. The federation covers workers from the textile, clothing, footwear and food
April 30 is the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam. The war and the fight against it were important influences on world politics at the time and continue to affect attitudes and ideas today. In coming
Come Together: John Lennon in his Time
By Jon Weiner
Faber and Faber, 1995. 379 pp., $18.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
John Lennon angered all the right people. During the Beatles' first tour of the States in 1966, fundamentalist
Harassment by other names
March 31, in case you missed it, was Secretary's Day. Yet another invention of the creative capitalist market mind which serves to guilt-trip people into buying commodities to make someone else — in this case the
By Jo Brown
MELBOURNE — The Marxist educational conference, "Campaigning for democratic socialism", to be held here over Easter, is shaping up as a major event on the city's left calendar.
To be held at the Lincoln Institute (625 Swanston
Abortion information law goes to Irish court
By Kath Gelber
The Irish Supreme Court is to review a new "abortion information bill" allowing doctors and other professionals to give women the names and addresses of abortion clinics outside
Harold
Written and directed by Steve Thomas
A Flying Carpet Films production
ABC TV, Sunday, April 9, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This intriguing documentary reveals the story of Harold Blair, one of Australia's greatest opera singers
Serbs charged with war crimes
The Hague International War Crimes Tribunal issued its first mass indictments on February 13, charging 21 Serbs with 275 counts of war crimes, breaches of the Geneva Convention, crimes against humanity and
By Peter Montague
Can reliance on the marketplace by itself control pollution? Here we examine a case study — the dry cleaning industry.
There is nothing dry about dry cleaning. All materials processed by dry cleaners are soaked in toxic
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