Sri Lankan left leaders still held
By Jean Dupont
Three leaders of Sri Lanka's New Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) have been detained by police in connection with an arms cache police claim to have discovered in a building housing a health
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By Dave Holmes
The ecological crisis is perhaps the strongest argument for socialism. Despite the business-as-usual attitude of the capitalist media, this is not just one more crisis: it is a looming catastrophe that threatens the survival of
Polish poster exhibition
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Polish posters are regarded as highly sophisticated works of art and are remarkable for their innovative design concepts, their spontaneity, simplicity and daring. From May 1 to June
Protest targets Kleenex
MELBOURNE — Residents from the Otway Ranges Environment Network and students from the Cross Campus Environment Network staged an anti-woodchipping protest on April 22 outside the Melbourne sales offices of Kimberly
Diminishing forests
Once, half of the earth's landmass was covered with forests. Today, this cover has been reduced to one-third. A map of the world's forest cover, produced by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre and World Wide Fund for
Concert highlights plight of Timorese asylum seekers
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — A free concert and rally in support of East Timorese asylum seekers attracted 5000 people to the Treasury Gardens on April 20. The Painters and Dockers,
Carla's SongDirected by Ken LoachWritten by Paul LavertyWith Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott GlennOpens May 1
Review by Neville Spencer
Director Ken Loach has a reputation for consistently using his craft to promote struggles for
By Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
GOMA — I had the chance to meet Laurent Kabila in the official residence, a palatial place that used to belong to Mobutu (one of his many mansions across the country), right by Lake Kivu. The rotund leader of
National stop-work meetings of Community and Public Sector Union members on April 23 decided on a week of two-hour rolling stoppages as a part of a campaign in defence of jobs and conditions proposed by the national management committee of the CPSU.
US bans new investments in Burma
By Eva Cheng
On April 22, US President Bill Clinton approved an order banning new US investments in Burma because of increased repression by the State Law and Order Restoration Council regime. But the decree
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