[This is the abridged text of a speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro Before the South African parliament, in Cape Town, on September 4.] I am thinking about the enormous responsibility and the colossal historic task it signifies to create the
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The real radio alternative
By Arun Pradhan
MELBOURNE — Supporters of community radio 3CR are being asked to become listener sponsors of the station. The current listener sponsor drive, essential for the survival and expansion of the station,
Aliens
We get it good. Up north where there's more oriental flavours than you can poke a stick at, your run of the mill Asiatic has their back to the wall. There's hunger and hardship like you wouldn't believe. But here, just a few ks south of
FMLN selects presidential candidates
By Allen Jennings
On September 27, amidst recrimination and tears, delegates of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) chose Facundo Guardado and María Marta Valladares, better
Events that shook the world
By James Vassilopoulos
"Besides the organised and peaceful demonstrations there were many of a different kind — tumultuous, ardent, violent, anarchical, drawing in hundreds of thousands, even millions of participants
By Francesca Davis
The Coalition government has wreaked havoc on the environment. It has undermined international agreements such as the Basel hazardous waste treaty and the Kyoto climate change accord, it has supported projects like Hinchinbrook
'Pro-lifers' murder again
By Barry Sheppard
Dr Barnett Slepian was shot and killed by a sniper using a high-powered rifle on the evening of October 23, as he stood in his kitchen with his wife and one of their sons. Dr Slepian provided abortion
No mandate rally
CANBERRA — The ACT Jabiluka Action Group has called a No Mandate rally to coincide with the first day of the new parliamentary sitting: 12:30pm, November 10, at Parliament House.
Kim Bullimore from JAG said, "The purpose of
By Norm Dixon
"These people come here to take work opportunities ... We have people roaming the streets with degrees, but they do not get jobs because companies have given jobs to foreigners"; "I hate these people because they take our jobs";
Face Value
Look at it this way.Wrinkles are for usenot smoothing out.If I were going to placein a capsule for possiblealiens, a filmed faceto depict the human femalewould I choosean infant with trulylovely womb-washed eyesbut little else?While that
Prospects for resistance to the new Howard government
By Peter Boyle
There will be no shortage of attacks on the working class from the Coalition government in its second term: the GST, further austerity and privatisation and the second wave of
ACT anti-abortion bill opposed
By Pat Brewer
CANBERRA — On October 27, 300 people packed into the reception room at the ACT Legislative Assembly to protest against the proposed anti-abortion bill introduced by right-wing MP Paul Osborne. The
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