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NZ Alliance campaigns to save the forests

By John Percy New Zealand Alliance leader Jim Anderton outlined a bold plan to rescue the country's remaining unsold pine plantations at the party's national conference, held in Wellington April 6-7. A week prior to the conference, the National

Socialists almost win Irish by-election

By Steve Jolly The recent Dublin West parliamentary by-election has stunned political observers. Militant Labour's Joe Higgins won 23% of the first preference vote and lost by only 370 votes. Australian Militant and Irish Militant Labour are both

Public servants in ACT call for action

By Leslie Williams CANBERRA — Community and Public Sector Union members around the country met last week to vote on an initial union response to the federal government's attacks. Public sector workers are losing jobs, suffering budget cuts and

The winning back of Rusden

By Viviana Sacchero MELBOURNE — Rusden is an intimate campus of Deakin University on which a mere 2000 students reside. Last month its students came close to being losers in the federal government's agenda of education cuts. On April 22, at a

Lighting the dark corners of our world

SkylightBy David HareDirected by Roger HodgmanThe Wharf Theatre, Sydney, until June 15Reviewed by Brendan Doyle This Melbourne Theatre Company production of British left-wing playwright David Hare's latest play is one of the theatre highlights of

Bougainville leader exiled to Netherlands

By Norm Dixon According to a report in the Port Moresby Post-Courier, Martin Miriori, the representative of the Bougainville Interim Government based in the Solomon Islands, has been forced to fly to the Netherlands, where he has been granted

May Day '96

Wet weather didn't dampen the spirits of those who attended May Day marches around the country on the weekend of May 4-5. The major themes at this year's events included fighting the Coalition's privatisation plans and cutbacks. Alex Bainbridge and

Interview with PRD chairperson

Budiman Sujatmiko, newly elected chair of the People's Democratic Party of Indonesia was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by Graham Mitchell and Karen Fleming in central Java on April 16. Question: Why is this congress being held? This congress

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm. Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,

Write on: letters to the editor

Price of justice Readers will be aware of Brandon Astor Jones who has written the Looking Out column for Green Left Weekly for the past three years. Brandon has spent many years on death row, in Georgia, USA, after being sentenced to death by an

Indonesian students protest massacre

JAKARTA — Four hundred students demonstrated at the national parliament here on May 2 in protest against the murder of 24 students by the military in Makassar, Sulawesi. On April 22, about 500 students rallied in Makassar for the lowering of public

An end to the pretence: it's not public housing

By Annette Wade MELBOURNE — Since the federal election, the Commonwealth Department of Housing and Regional Development has been totally abolished. Public housing and the Crisis Accommodation Program (CAP) have been moved to the Department of