Arts hit again at NTU
By Bernie Brian
DARWIN — The Northern Territory University administration sacked, 11 staff members of the arts faculty on the final day of exams, when very few students were on campus. As a result of the cuts, the
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By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — When Russian voters in December 1995 gave Communists and other opponents of the government a majority in the State Duma, there seemed every reason to expect that if President Boris Yeltsin were re-elected in
By Dave Riley
On the afternoon of July 6, after a kind of martial law was imposed on the nationalist Garvaghy Road area of Portadown, County Armagh, a Protestant Orange Order parade marched silently through the rubble and debris left by the
Australians for Native Title launched
By Rob Graham
ADELAIDE — Around 300 people attended the launch of Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation on July 10. After rock band Coloured Stone opened proceedings, the audience heard
By Justin Randell
MELBOURNE "Fight the system" was the theme of the 26th national conference of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, held here July 4-6. Two hundred and eighty delegates and observers attended the conference, many for the
Recently Green Left Weekly's SANDRA WALLACE caught up with JUSTO DIAZ of Papalote, one of Sydneys best known and most diverse Latin American bands. Question: When and how did the band start?
The band began in 1979, but was known as Papalote
PRD activists tortured
By James Balowski
On June 26, SiaR magazine reported that two People's Democratic Party (PRD) activists, Coen Husein Pontoh and Mohammad Sholeh, had been tortured following the June 11 riot at the Medaeng prison in
East Timor supporters at NT Expo
By Sally Mitchell
DARWIN — Members of Australians for a Free East Timor (AFFET) and local Timorese held a protest stall at the Northern Territory Trade Expo, June 27-29. NT Expo, opened by trade minister
Anti-nuke protests
By Jennifer Thompson
Aboriginal traditional owners protested at the gates of the Orebody No. 3 of Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu in the NT on July 8. On the same day, the first anniversary of the International Court of
MALIK MIAH is a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity and of the International Association of Machinists who visited Indonesia at the time of the recent elections as part of a Global Exchange delegation. He was interviewed for Green Left
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