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Correction

Correction A subediting error in the article "The ALP, ethnic communities and the cult(ure) of difference" in the February 5 edition of Green Left Weekly incorrectly described Robert Manne as the former Fraser government minister for Aboriginal

Werribee residents oppose toxic dump

Werribee residents oppose toxic dump By Ian Haywood MELBOURNE — A strong community campaign has arisen in Werribee, a town just west of Melbourne, in response to a planned toxic dump on the town's outskirts. The site is an exhausted quarry

Activists promote unity in Redfern

Activists promote unity in Redfern By Andrew Gianniotis SYDNEY — Establishment newspapers say the Aboriginal community in Redfern is divided and that the area is experiencing a "crime spree". Is this true? Resistance activists decided to see

Tension in East Timor continues

By Jon Lamb Over the past few weeks Indonesian military, security agents and pro-integration youth thugs from GARDIPAKSI have terrorised East Timorese youth in Dili and other regional centres. Scores of young Timorese have been rounded up, detained

Loose cannons

@columhead = No-one told us before "Police often have very difficult decisions to make in the course of their work, and a code which gives them practicable and sensible guidelines will be very helpful." — Phil Tunchon, president of the NSW Police

Stalin's hand in the French CP

Stalin's hand in the French CP By Stuart Russell Documents recently released by the Russian presidential archives demonstrate to what extent former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin controlled the policies of the French Communist Party. In June

Fraser by-election results

Fraser by-election results By Lara Pullin CANBERRA — Disillusionment with traditional parties was notable in the outcome of the Fraser by-election on February 1. The ALP retained the seat vacated by Labor's John Langmore (who left to take up a

Action updates

Doctors to stop work Doctors will hold stop-work meetings across NSW on the February 11 to discuss a motion for an ongoing campaign against the government's restriction of Medicare provider numbers. The main proposal to be considered will be an

The transformation of South Africa's communists

Raising the Red Flag: The International Socialist League and the Communist Party of South Africa 1914-1932By Sheridan JohnsMayibuye Books, Bellville, South Africa1995, 309pp. Review by Norm Dixon Mayibuye Books specialise in publishing works

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 Thursday, 10pm, and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne community

Report reveals de Klerk covered up 'Third Force'

By Norm Dixon South Africa's last apartheid-era state president, F.W. de Klerk, was handed a report almost 18 months before the historic April 1994 election that spelled out the apartheid military's role in the so-called "Third Force", a shadowy

Horta speaks to public meetings

Horta speaks to public meetings By Jon Lamb and Sean Moysey ADELAIDE — East Timorese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta addressed more than 500 people at a public meeting here on February 7. Ramos Horta was greeted with a standing