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Belarus referendum marks progress toward dictatorship

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — In a vote riddled with fraud, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on November 24 secured victory in a referendum aimed at allowing him to introduce a new, super-"presidential" constitution. Official figures claimed

Chinaman's Dam — National Action skulduggery

By Bob Fuge YOUNG — The far-right organisation National Action has brought the race debate to local government in rural NSW. At a special meeting on November 6, Young Shire Council voted to extend a $20,000 loan to its Rotary Club for the purpose

Black deaths in custody increasing

By Lisa Macdonald Last year, 22 Aboriginal people died in custody — one and a half times the number reported in the previous year and the highest number since 1987. At least another 16 people have died so far this year. Over the last seven years,

The end is nigh - publication schedule

That's right: it's almost the end of 1996 and of Green Left's publishing year. Next week's issue will be the last for 1996 — and it will be packed with useful, informative and entertaining material for your summer reading. After our summer holiday,

Academics' pay campaign continues

Green Left Weekly's MARCUS GREVILLE spoke to National Tertiary Education and Industry Union member at the University of Sydney Dr DICK BRYAN about the state of the union's campaign for a 15% pay rise. Question: What do you think about the NTEU's

Mass anti-APEC movement in the Philippines

By Dick Nichols The first three meetings of the leaders of the countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation held in Bogor (Indonesia), Osaka (Japan) and Vancouver (Canada) all went off with hardly any protest. But after last weeks meeting in

World Bank condemned for gutting pesticide policy

The World Bank is backtracking on earlier commitments to reduce pesticide use in agricultural projects, according to more than 100 environmental, consumer and development organisations from around the world. The bank recently issued a new operational

Write on: Letters to the editor

Write on: Letters to the editor Workers' compensation Conservative politicians and the Mineral Council of Australia ask why miners should have special privileges under the proposed NSW Workers' Compensation Act. Miners in NSW have justifiably

Loose cannons

Saw no point "The position of the Australian government is very well understood, and that may well explain why it wasn't raised." — Prime Menzies John Howard, pleased that Asian leaders at the APEC summit hadn't raised the issue of racism in

Left Alliance and NUS

This letter, by Left Alliance NSW region, is a response to an open letter to Left Alliance distributed by Resistance in NSW and published last week in Green Left Weekly. The Resistance article published in last weeks GLW is a new contribution to

Public workers strike in Venezuela

Public workers strike in Venezuela Tens of thousands of public employees in Venezuela began a four-day national general strike on November 19 to demand payment of a 25% salary increase and transportation and food subsidies decreed by the government

Oslo and the Israeli left

By Roni Ben Efrat A glow has returned to the cheeks of the Labour Party and the left wing in Israel. All (almost) rage with righteous indignation over the collapse of the Oslo agreements. Front-line groups such as Yesh Gvul and Women in Black,