Speaking out about refugees
By John Gauci
SYDNEY — Paulo Corsino, born in Dili 19 years ago, is the eldest of three children. He grew up in an environment of fear and oppression under the occupying Indonesian army, and fled to Australia in
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By Norm Dixon
The sudden death of Moshood Abiola, the imprisoned winner of Nigeria's 1993 presidential election, has thrown into disarray the west's efforts to rehabilitate the brutal and corrupt military dictatorship. From June 8, when dictator
Editorial: Stop privatisation of Telstra
Mal Colston, the ex-ALP senator, with the words on balance ... at this
stage, derailed the Coalition's first attempt to fully privatise Telstra.
Prime Minister John Howard, however, has not given up
US groups urge methyl bromide ban
On June 10, the US House of Representatives Agriculture Committee held a hearing on the deadly, ozone-depleting pesticide methyl bromide. Critics charge that the hearing was biased and the committee prevented
Resistance to racism: a statement of dissent
The following statement was adopted at the 27th national conference
of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, held in Melbourne, July
11-13.
Secondary students across the
By Nick Everett
BRISBANE — Around 30 union members walked off the job in Brisbane's Centrelink Call Centre at 2.45pm on July 10, frustrated by continuous computer system problems. Before the walkout, 53 Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU)
By Doug Lorimer
Just three years after Mexico's financial disaster, the second great financial crisis of the 1990s exploded in south-east Asia and South Korea. The same imperialist institutions that only a year ago held up the Asian "dragons" and
By Lara Pullin
The ACT Liberal chief minister and treasurer, Kate Carnell, delivered a few more blows to the average worker in the 1998-99 budget on June 23. Carnell touted the budget as a vision for the "clever, caring capital", but increased fees
'Voting' against racism
By Amelia Jones and Mathew Munro
HOBART — When Hanson visited Hobart last year, more than 5000 people protested outside her public meeting against racism and bigotry. The details of her latest visit to Hobart, however,
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His LifeBy D.M. ThomasLittle, Brown and Company, 1998. 583 pp., $45.00 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
February 9, 1945, was the turning point in the life of Captain Alexander Solzhenitsyn. An officer in the Red
Three groups of activists marched and rallied for democracy and human rights in Hong Kong on July 1, the first anniversary of the territory's return to China.
Great expectations
"When you are working for the brother of the richest man in the world, you expect to have your bills paid." — The head of a British company owed £1 million by the failed company of Prince Jefri, brother of the sultan of
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