By Norm Dixon
The refugee crisis in eastern Zaire follows months of brutal oppression — largely unreported in the mainstream media — against the Banyarwanda and Banyamulenge ethnic groups by the Zaire dictatorship, in league with those
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Canadian auto strike and occupation show the way
The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) forced General Motors to accept a favourable contract on October 22 after a three-week strike during which workers took over a plant in Oshawa, Ontario. "Like a
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Queensland Coalition government is lurching further into trouble following the resignation on October 29 of Kenneth Carruthers. Carruthers quit as chief of the Criminal Justice Commission probe into an alleged corrupt
By Chris Martin
SYDNEY — Aborigines fighting for the preservation of the historic "Day of Mourning" conference site are urging everyone concerned with justice for indigenous Australians to join their protest outside state parliament on November
By Felicity Wade
In the second in a series of articles on future directions for the environment movement, FELICITY WADE takes up some of the issues being discussed in the Wilderness Society about the way forward for the conservation movement. The
In the first of a three part series on the student movement in Australia since the 1970s, AFRODITY GIANNAKIS asked VAL EDWARDS about the history of the Australian Union of Students. Edwards was 1977 president of Kelvin Grove CAE Student Union (now
Washington BabylonBy Alexander Cockburn and Ken SilversteinVerso, 1996. 316 pp, $24.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon The US has the best politicians that money can buy. This is an old joke that never fades but, although certain Australian politicians
and ain't i a woman?: Kick-arse feminism?
On October 23, 300 people attended a public meeting at Sydney's Paddington Town Hall which revealed the varied, and often confused, nature of current feminist thinking.
The panel included four
As a result of fundraising activities over the last few weeks, ASIET has been able to send a further $3000 to activists in Indonesia. This brings to over $5000 the amount sent so far. Thanks to everybody who has made donations or helped with
Poem: Somewhere
Somewhere
Somewhere, a man woman or child carries a rifle
bazooka mortar handgun machine gun gleaming rifle
Insaned by death any death is a prize for death
Living in fear fear travels in all directions
No-one safe, for