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Greenhouse: why Howard must set targets

Greenhouse: why Howard must set targets By Pip Hinman The federal Coalition government, in cahoots with mineral resources industry bosses, is running a scare campaign to convince the public that tens of thousands of jobs and Australia's economy

Looking deeply into the mirror

MrayaAbdel Ali SlimaniReal World through FestivalReviewed by Jenny Long This album is an interesting introduction to the current evolution of Algerian "pop"-rai — the 1980 and '90s version of the bawdy, working-class rai originating from the

What's happening to Sydney?

By the Newtown Political Collective What sort of city do we want? Do we want cities that are OK to live in? Or do we want cities that are machines for making profit? What sort of city do we have? Do you live near the M2? Do you live under an

German socialists win referendum campaign

By Graham Matthews and Karen Fletcher On May 5, 1996, the people of the east German states of Brandenburg and Berlin soundly rejected by referendum a treaty to unify those two states. The treaty was defeated even though almost every major party

Street party against yuppification of Newtown &&

By James Hutchings SYDNEY — About 350 people turned out to a street party, held in the plaza near the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on Saturday, May 25, to protest against the "yuppification" of Newtown. The event was organised by the Newtown

Mad cow disease: threat of an epidemic &&

Mad cow disease: threat of an epidemic By Michael Greger Peter Hall showed the first signs of depression around Christmas 1994. In five months he was in a wheelchair. He died at age 20 of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD), a relentlessly

Vickery miners: 'One more day than them'

By Alex Bainbridge It is well worth the trip to Gunnedah to visit the miners who are now 10 months into their strike at CRA's Vickery coal mine. These strikers are a living demonstration of how to build the solidarity that will be needed to defeat

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey: Sinn Fein should leave peace process &&

The "peace process" strategy of the Republicans was based on an alliance of all Irish nationalist parties, including bourgeois forces such as the Social Democratic and Labor Party, and the Dublin government. It was aimed at forcing the British to

Peace in northern Ireland?

By Sean Healy Talks supposedly aimed at delivering peace in northern Ireland began on June 10. Initially supposed to be genuinely all party, the talks have been threatened by the British government's refusal to allow representatives of the

Women's conference to pay for NUS rorts

By Arun Pradhan PERTH — A National Union of Students (NUS) state executive meeting on June 14 voted to slash $2500 from the NUS West women's campaign budget. The meeting was attended by 20 students who opposed the move because it would mean a

Action updates

Launch of Aboriginal solidarity group MELBOURNE — The new group Justice for Indigenous Australians was launched here on June 3, the fourth anniversary of the High Court's native title judgment, "Mabo Day". Speakers included Aboriginal lawyer

Russia before the elections

By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — Most of Russia's population are following the election campaign with confusion and scepticism, mixed at times with curiosity and fear. The Yeltsin team has put its stake on three methods: "going to the people";