Lively May Day in Lisbon
By Margarita Windisch
LISBON — Around 30,000 enthusiastic people marched on a gloriously sunny May 1 to show their strength as workers, activists and dedicated union members. Contingents of unions, political parties and
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Travels in East Timor
Peter Williamson visited East Timor last year, around the time of the
installation of the first bishop of Baucau. Here he describes what he saw.
Arriving in Dili on a domestic flight from Bali, I am
50 years of Palestinian catastrophe
By Jennifer Thompson
SYDNEY — Around 150 people gathered on May 15 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Palestinian dispossession by Israel. The seminar, organised by the University of Technology Friends of
International news briefs
Villagers blockade French TV station
NOUMEA, Kanaky â The French-controlled Pacific territory of Wallis
and Futuna is without television and radio after angry villagers launched
a blockade on May 5.
That's the point
It is right and proper that the PM should advise caution. After all, we don't want a bloodbath on our doorstep. It wouldn't do, would it? Here we are proffering the hand of friendship, with a tidy sum in it, and that Suharto
By Sean Martin-Iverson
PERTH — WA's prison system is in crisis. There have already been 10 deaths in custody since the beginning of the year. In 1997, 12 died. Deaths are likely to continue to rise as overcrowding intensifies and funding is
Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, is worth $48.9 billion, based on Microsoft's current stock price. The following information helps us mere mortals appreciate how much that is (all references in US dollars):
Bill is worth $3,591,207,000 more than
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — A split in the Communist Party of the Philippines has recently been made public by the circulation of several statements. The split revolves around directives issued by the CPP leadership faction around Wilma Tiamzon
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News —
By Jim Green
On May 11 and May 13, five nuclear weapons tests were carried out in India's Rajasthan desert, the site of India's only previous nuclear weapons test, in 1974. The Indian government says the planned series of tests is now complete. The
South African anti-homosexual laws struck down
The South African High Court in Johannesburg on May 3 declared the common
law crimes of sodomy, unnatural sexual offences and section 20A of the
Sexual Offences Act unconstitutional, legalising
Musings
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Some say there are nine Muses: but they're wrong. Look at Sappho of Lesbos: she makes ten." — Plato
After Plato, I read Rosanne Bersten's "Male-only space" letter (Green Left Weekly, March 25) in which she
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