SARAH STEPHEN, who was recently in Scotland, spoke to TOMMY SHERIDAN, Scottish Militant Labour councillor, about Militant Labour and the progressive movement in Scotland.
Could you give our readers a bit of background on your organisation and
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More than 170 states that have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are meeting to discuss whether the treaty should be renewed. The NPT came into force in 1970. Anti-nuclear groups and some of the more powerful newly industrialising
Passion in Darwin
By Tom Flanagan
On the eve of Good Friday, Club Q, Darwin's new queer dance club, presented Passion, its most spectacular and well-attended night so far.
By 1am, when Erica and her Disciples were ready to perform, 300
Shelley: The Pursuit
By Richard Holmes
Harper Collins, 1995. 830 pp., $49.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
In 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley was collecting his mail from England at a post office in Rome. When his name was called out, a
Freeing of hijacker 'condones terrorism'
HAVANA — Cuba on April 19 warned that the release of Leonel Macias, who murdered a Cuban navy officer and hijacked a vessel to the United States last August, is equivalent to condoning terrorism.
Sexism in the judiciary
By Kerry Vernon
BRISBANE — Remarks by a federal Industrial Court judge on April 13 that "It is not unknown for a woman to sleep her way to the top", have drawn outrage and criticism from a wide range of women and
May Day on South Coast
By Liam Mitchell
WOLLONGONG — Workers, students and community activists are expected to rally on May 6 for the annual May Day March in support of justice for all peoples.
Leading the march will be picketers
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The shooting death of a 16-year-old youth during a confrontation at a suburban Rochedale house on April 25 has provoked a nationwide debate on vigilante justice for home owners in the face of break-ins.
The death
By Sarah Nicholson
SYDNEY — On the evening of April 8, Vibe Tribe's free community party, "Freequency", in Sydney Park, St Peters, was attacked. The party had been in progress for over two hours, when numerous police squad cars and paddy
By Peter Montague
Somewhere between 2.6 and 3.8 million US men and women served in Vietnam during the years 1965 through 1971, the years when chemical herbicides were being used to denude the jungle and destroy enemy crops.
Alongside the
By Kevin Sanders
Two unnervingly hawkish Pentagon documents prepared for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and acquired recently by Greenpeace under the Freedom of Information Act, positively seethe with gung ho enthusiasm for a nuclear brawl,
By Robyn Marshall
A wide-ranging patent granted in the US at the end of March to the National Institutes of Health, a major government-funded research body, will cripple the development of life-saving gene therapies.
NIH has given the
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