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
257
By Marina Cameron
US President Bill Clinton's call while visiting Australia for binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets highlighted yet again the bankruptcy of the Australian government's environment policies. Of course, Clinton's
Beanland under fire in anti-discrimination row
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Queensland attorney-general and justice minister Denver Beanland has accused the sacked head of the joint federal-state Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission,
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
The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)By Katherine Gibson and Julie GrahamBlackwell, 1996. 299 pp., $39.95Reviewed by Greg Ogle This book is written for political economists and activists who are interested in overthrowing, replacing or opposing
Report slams black health crisis
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The disastrous state of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland has been underlined by a state government "status" report on health matters released on
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
Resistance has been heavily involved in organising and building actions in response to the upsurge in racism following Pauline Hanson's maiden parliamentary speech. The following is the text of a leaflet distributed by Resistance at recent actions,
By Sam Wainwright
PARIS — From November 8 to 11, the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR), France's largest and most influential far left party, held its decision-making conference here. Green Left Weekly interviewed ALAIN KRIVINE, the
Leadership change in SA Liberals
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — John Olsen has become the new SA premier following weeks of rumour and unrest in the state Liberal Party. A significant slide in the ratings appears to have prompted the final coup
Pages
