PNG denies UN access to BougainvillBy Pip Hinman The Papua New Guinea government stepped in to stop a special United Nations rapporteur on summary executions from visiting all of Bougainville, including the areas controlled by the Bougainville
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By Lisa Macdonald In an unprecedented coalition, 20 leaders of the Anglican, Uniting and Catholic churches sent a letter on October 22 calling on the Labor Party and the Coalition to end logging of Australia's old growth forests. The open letter
It is a fact that there are more [W]hite people on welfare than [B]lacks, but if politicians can label welfare, crime, poverty, etc, as "[B]lack", they can [and do] emasculate those programs and then work to provide welfare for the rich and powerful.
By Norm Dixon As South Africa prepares for local government elections on November 1, there has been a sharp increase in political killings in KwaZulu/Natal. The violence has reached such proportions that local elections in the province have been
In Green Left Weekly #207, Rigoberta Menchu was described as a leader of the Guatemalan United Revolutionary Front (URNG), which she isn't. She is a leader of the Guatemalan Peasants' Unity Committee.
By John Percy The Communist Party of Australia experienced its most rapid growth in the years 1930-1934, going from 300 to 3000 members. The misery and desperation of the depression years, with up to one third of the work force unemployed, pushed
By Max Lane The Australian government's support for the 1975 invasion of East Timor; its August, 1983 legal recognition of Indonesia's annexation by force; its policy of continuing joint military exercises and training with the Indonesian occupation
The strike by workers against Boeing, the world's largest maker of passenger jets, entered its third week with the company determined to force unacceptable conditions on its 32,000 employees, members of the International Association of Machinists.
Images and illusionsBy Kev CarmodyFestival RecordsReviewed by Jenny Long Initially, this new album from Kev Carmody seems light years away from those early, radical folk-narratives Pillars of society and Eulogy (for a black person). But that's not
Four members of Mexico's ruling elite have been assassinated over the past two years, and not one of the cases has been solved to anyone's satisfaction. Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and six other people died in a gun
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