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'Freedom is in the trying'

Blood on the FieldsWynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Jazz OrchestraColumbia/SonyThree CDs, $49.95 Review by Norm Dixon The long-awaited release on CD of Wynton Marsalis' epic jazz odyssey about slavery was preceded by the controversy that

Collapse of the Philippine peso: Who's the culprit?

By Sonny Melencio A longer version of this article was written in July, a week after the much publicised devaluation of the Philippine peso. It was circulated among members of the progressive trade union organisation Bukluran ng Manggagawang

Individual contracts for CES

Individual contracts for CES By Paul Oboohov CANBERRA — The Public Employment Placement Enterprise (the corporatised successor to the Commonwealth Employment Service) is planning individual contracts for all former public servants as they

2SER-FM membership drive

By Kyla Slaven We all know about the railing, nasty and simplistic messages put forward by commercial radio, television and print media in Australia. News and current affairs are presented as objective, "natural" reporting of the "most important

NSW government fiddles as rivers die

NSW government fiddles as rivers die By Frances Kelly NSW's inland rivers are in crisis. Ask anyone in country NSW to describe their local river, and at best they will say in it was in a better state years ago. At worst they will

and ain't i a woman?: Change the law on RU486

Change the law on RU486 Results from Australian trials of the abortion drug RU486 expose federal parliament's decision last May to restrict access to the pill as punitive moralism, and add weight to arguments for lifting the

Steps toward ending radioactive dumping in oceans

Steps toward ending radioactive dumping in oceans By Barry Healy On the final day of the meeting of the OSPAR Convention on September 5 in Brussels, the British and French governments for the first time agreed to moves to end marine nuclear

Tasmanian rural hospitals under threat

By Ian Jamieson ROSEBERY — Under the whip of a declining health budget, rural and regional hospitals in Tasmania are facing closure or a severe curtailing of services. The latest casualty is a 70-year-old hospital in St Marys on the east

Cadres turned capitalists

By Eva Cheng Rampant corruption of Communist Party officials in China has been well known since 1949. But Deng Xiaoping's capitalist "reforms" since 1979 have given them new means of enrichment. Lavish banquets, bigger villas, consumer

Rage Against Racism

Rage Against Racism By Cassandra Pomroy SYDNEY — Following the huge success of the Rock Against Racism at the Harbourside Brasserie here, Resistance is now organising a Rage Against Racism. Several young bands will be performing between

In Albright's wake

By Adam Hanieh RAMALLAH — On September 15, the Israeli government announced the lifting of the internal closure on Palestinian towns in the West Bank. This decision means Palestinians can now travel between towns but are still prohibited from

Greek and Turkish Cypriots in joint declaration

By Michael Karadjis — NICOSIA, September 5 — The following declaration was signed by 58 Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political, cultural, trade union, peace and women's organisations on the occasion of the International Day for