Until recently ROBERTO ROBAINA was the first secretary of the Union of Young Communists. Now, this 39-year-old foreign minister is part of the new generation of Cubans leading socialist Cuba through a process of radical change. Robaina was
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By Lex Martin DARWIN — Until recently Darwin Harbour, a huge tidal mangrove, attracted scant attention from government or investors. However, the NT's Country Liberal Party has decided that of the existing 260 square kilometres of mangrove stock
When you see Mururoa, Fangataufa, and Bikini, You will see the Children's Cancer Foundation, Laid in deposits of lava and coral, By the US and French nuclear administrations. ... Denis Kevans
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Calls for actions against ShellBy Norm Dixon As the Nigerian regime imposed death sentences on 19 more Ogoni leaders on November 26, calls for the federal government to take action have increased. The Canberra Young Christian Workers Movement (YCWM)
School services officers rally ADELAIDE — Some 3000 school services officers and supporters rallied on December 6 against the state government's plan to cut 250 jobs. Half the public schools in the state closed an hour early in support of the
Court ruling throws Qld ALP into crisis BRISBANE — A by-election for the north Queensland state seat of Mundingburra will take place early in the new year after a court ruled that the Goss government had not won the seat in the state election last
By Michael Tardif Having failed to campaign effectively against the inclusion of changes to the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) and Austudy in the May federal budget, the National Union of Students (NUS) has, for the last two weeks, been
By Sujatha Fernandes The recent disendorsement of West Australian MP Graeme Campbell from his seat of Kalgoorlie by the national executive of the ALP for his comments on immigration and his association with the League of Rights and the Australians
Activist/author ZOHL de ISHTAR was the only Australian to sail 483 kilometres with the New Zealand peace flotilla to the French nuclear test sites at Moruroa and Fangataufa. She joined the Maohi campaign for independence while researching her next
By James Balowski In successful joint actions, Indonesian and East Timorese activists have managed for the first time to focus the spotlight — in the Indonesian press and public — on their demand that Indonesia withdraw from East Timor. The joint
Pilger's prison interview with Xanana December 7 marked 20 years since Indonesia invaded East Timor. On August 18, 1983 former Prime Minister Bob Hawke gave de jure recognition to the Suharto government's occupation; the Australian Labor government
Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in AustraliaBy Verity BurgmannCambridge University Press, 1995.346 pp., $29.95 (pb)Reviewed by Jonathan Strauss In the first two decades of this century "the Industrial Workers of
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