International news briefs
Tiananmen protests 1976 and 1989
HONG KONG — About two dozen activists held a protest march on April 5 to commemorate the heroic demonstration by tens of thousands of Chinese in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 23 years ago
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Women workers bear the brunt of SA attack
[This is the text of a speech by JANET GILES, South Australian president of the Australian Education Union, to the International Women's Day rally in Adelaide on March 13.] International Women's Day
New film brings to life Indonesian struggle
By Max Lane
On April 23 and 24, a new documentary film is being premiered in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Entitled Indonesia in Revolt — Democracy or Death!, it depicts the student-led popular
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In cities and towns throughout Russia, repressive official policies have helped create a huge pool of narcotics users infected with the HIV virus. The infection is now poised to spread swiftly among young people who are
Protest against US nuclear ship
By Mathew Munro
HOBART — Thirty people gathered for a creative speak-out against the arrival of the US nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on April 7. The protest was initiated by Everyone for a Nuclear
Free double passes to Vince Jones' Sydney shows
Five lucky Green Left Weekly readers and their friends will catch Australia's leading jazz vocalist/trumpet player Vince Jones and his band free of charge. Vince will be playing at the Basement,
...Looking out: Good advice
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Friendship is a ... commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." — Oliver Goldsmith The Irish author's words above say a lot to us all, but to some,
PRD prisoners on hunger strike
People's Democratic Party (PRD) chairperson Budiman Sujatmiko and other
PRD prisoners Anom Astika and Petrus Haryanto have been on hunger strike
since April 6. The hunger strike coincides with nationally
By Mark Abberton
MELBOURNE — The national day of action against voluntary student unionism, which was to be held on May 5, has been moved to May 19. The decision was made by the National Union of Students (NUS) national education committee phone
French far-left election alliance raises hopes
By Eva Cheng
PARIS — The French far left could win four seats in the June 13 European elections. There has been an encouraging response to the joint ticket between the Ligue Communiste
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