When Morning Breaks
By Cassandra Fazio
They say the currents are not safe
I long to swing from tree to tree
And still my line is answered with a cold, electrical machine
I dreamt my forest sisters came to take me back
We danced in
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By Deepa Fernandes
After the reunification of Vietnam in 1975, about 1.5 million Vietnamese left the country. A US-led Western world, still haunted by threats to their material status from the appeal of communism, hailed these refugees as
By Lisa Macdonald
More than 700 people around the country turned out for the Marxist Educational Conferences, Campaigning for Democratic Socialism, held in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth over the Easter weekend.
Not since the early
A study of US government testing records, Forbidden Fruit, has found that 66 different illegal pesticides were detected in 42 fruits and vegetables over a two-year period from 1992 to 1993. Issued in February, the report, an audit of 15,000 test
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In Russia, April 1 — the "Day of Laughter" — often comes as a shock to people used to its tame counterpart in the English-speaking world. On this particular day, journalists are allowed to subvert their own
By Toby Borgeest
JOHANNESBURG — The most serious source of tension in South Africa's national assembly is the Inkatha Freedom Party's (IFP) frequent threats to withdraw from parliamentary and constitution-drafting work — and the occasional
Continuing our historical features on Vietnam and the movement against the war in the '60s and '70s is this interview with SANDRA HAWKER and HELEN JARVIS. Both became involved in the fight against the Vietnam War while students at the Australian
Study links home pesticides and cancer
A study recently published in the American Journal of Public Health has found elevated rates of cancer in children exposed to pesticides in their homes and gardens.
The study by researchers in North
By Lisa Macdonald
The public response to the words Democratic Socialists, which appeared on ballot papers for the first time in the NSW election last month, was a clear indication that the right-wing rhetoric about the "death of socialism" has
In brief
On April 26 the German Bundestag (parliament) is to debate two bills presented by the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) which commemorate the liberation of Germany from fascism and remember Jewish victims of the Nazi regime. The
Nomad
Nomad (Adam Plack) with Robert Mirabal and Mor Thiam
Australian Music International
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
The term "world music" came into being in 1987, when a number of small labels specialising in African, Latin American and
ADELAIDE — The Public Service Association has criticised the state government for increasing the rent of country workers. An in principle decision would force government employees in state-owned accommodation to pay up to $10 per week more. Workers
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