By Norm Dixon
As the ADFL sweeps through eastern Zaire, opposition to Mobutu and the war, and sympathy for rebel leader Laurent Kabila, are being openly expressed on the streets of the capital, Kinshasa. A general strike on February 10, called by
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Poem: Gold card people
Gold card people
Gold card people
just live to buy
Plastic people
tag along for the ride
Only real people
earn free flybuys
But working people
just sweat and cry
they serve the tables
they pour the wine
In February 1994, Green Left Weekly's Johannesburg-based correspondent, Norm Dixon, attended a meeting to launch a branch of South Africa's fledging Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF). The meeting was held at Vista University in Soweto
By Eva Cheng
Deng Xiaoping has been acclaimed by politicians, business figures and other "respectable" commentators around the world as the "architect" of China's "modernisation" following the announcement of his death on February 20. They hailed
By Iggy Kim and Peter Boyle
Racism is often presented as a deep-seated and "ancient" suspicion and hostility between people of different races — a "natural" if mistaken prejudice that is hard to eradicate but will eventually be banished through
Student delegation returns from East Timor
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE On February 20, a delegation of six students from the University of Melbourne returned from a 10-day trip to build links between students in Australia and East Timor. Alex
DARWIN — An Aboriginal protest camp on vacant Crown land in the northern suburbs has ended tragically after the sudden death of one of the protesters. Bob Bunduwabi died on January 22 after two months of defying repeated attempts by the NT
Social Security penalises strikers
By Philippa Stanford
One of the federal government's budget changes restricts access to income support payments for people unemployed as a result of participation in industrial action. This provision, which came
Me Generation and the death of a nation
There was a time when most knew want and therefore understood,
That in this land across the sea, there was a chance for good.
Knowing adversity, they saw their fellows in that light
And so against
Protests against nuclear waste shipment
By Pip Hinman
The WA Greens have issued a protest against the secrecy and misinformation surrounding a highly dangerous shipment of nuclear waste travelling from France to Japan. "Any mishap would require
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