By Jennifer Thompson and James Vassilopoulos
What do Graeme Samuel, president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), the Young Liberals and Jeff Kennett all have in common? Well, if you believe the establishment press, they are
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By Justin Randell
PERTH — A University of Western Australia Guild Council meeting last month called a referendum on continued UWA affiliation to the National Union of Students. This referendum will be held April 14-16. The motion for a
By Kevin Taylor
MOE — Victoria's Latrobe Valley has three substantial public hospitals: a modern 150-bed hospital in Moe, one in Traralgon and the Hobsons Park psychiatric hospital. There are also two publicly owned nursing homes. For six years
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
By Kerry Vernon
BRISBANE — The Queensland Anti-discrimination Tribunal ruled on January 31 that the medical group QFG had discriminated both directly and indirectly against a lesbian when it refused her access to artificial insemination through a
Burma: insurgency and the politics of ethnicityBy Martin SmithZed Books, 1991. 492 pp., $59.95. Review by Eva Cheng
Though Burma: insurgency and the politics of ethnicity was published six years ago, it remains one of the richest and most
Germany's new iron curtain
A particularly severe winter, with temperatures as low as -22° C, has had a heavy toll among refugees attempting to cross Germany's eastern border with Poland and the Czech Republic. On December 7, a 35-year-old
The workers who wouldn't be persuadedThe workers who wouldn't be persuaded
By Peter Boyle
Since the collapse of the bureaucratic regimes in eastern Europe, we've been told that socialism is just another discredited 19th century philosophy.
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — While Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais jostle for power under Yeltsin, interior minister General Anatoly Kulikov is systematically occupying key positions. The
Hitler hated homosexuals too
Homophobia is alive and well in Australia's governments. It was flushed out by the January 31 ruling by the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal that a lesbian who had been refused a sperm donor by a Queensland
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