By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — More than 2000 people opposed to the proposed Pelican Point power station rallied in Semaphore on May 9 at a protest organised by Community Action for Pelican Point (CAPP). CAPP has been picketing the power station
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Stalag Kosova
Welcome to Puckapunyal — your gateway to Australia. It is our intention to make your stay here as happy and as fruitful as is possible given the unfortunate circumstances that have brought you to our shores. "Puckapunyal" may be
Castro: 'Force is no solution'
Following are excerpts from a speech by Cuba's President Fidel Castro to a mass rally in the University of Havana on May 4. Brutal and destructive air strikes are taking place in the very heart of Europe, which are
Correction
In the article "Pelican Point picket wins support" (GLW #359), Stuart Easom from Community Action for Pelican Point was quoted as saying, "While the police have been arresting ordinary citizens at the picket, the real criminals are
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Long-time union and environment activist Davey Thomason has suffered police harassment and may have been sacked from his position as an organiser with the SA branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy
GST and the Democrats
"Mr Costello has my number", Democrat leader Senator Meg Lees declared after independent Senator Brian Harradine announced that he would vote against the government's goods and services tax.
Her words had a double meaning,
Lessons of the Longford gas explosion
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — At the end of April, final submissions were presented to the royal commission into the gas explosion and fire at Esso's Longford facility in the Latrobe Valley. The Victorian
Comment by Doug Lorimer
"The Kosovan Albanians have the right to national self-determination, just like all the other peoples of the Balkans. But that does not mean that socialists should support the KLA [Kosova Liberation Army]. Nationalist
Profile of a revolutionary
By Sam King in Indonesia
Name: Budiman SujatmikoBorn: 14 March 1970Residence: Cipinang prison, JakartaOccupation: revolutionary Budiman was a student in the economics faculty at the University of Gadjah Mada in
By Jonathan Singer
The federal government's budget has increased the push to impose compulsory work on the unemployed in return for dole payments. The government is to enforce "mutual obligation" — the obligation on the jobless to work for
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