Ireland: New evidence suggests Bloody Sunday deliberate
By Alec Smart
LONDON — The recent release of a secret 1972 memorandum, recommending the shooting of ringleaders to deter insurrection in Derry, Northern Ireland, suggests that the British
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BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — The militant Workers First team's election campaign in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union for the positions of national and state secretaries and for one metal division organiser in Victoria is under way. The
Protests against forest agreements
Environmentalists staged protests across the country on March 31 against the failure of regional forest agreements (RFAs) to protect old-growth forests from logging. In Melbourne, conservationists condemned Steve
ACI gets injunction
MELBOURNE — Manufacturing company ACI has obtained a court injunction to prevent locked-out workers from its Box Hill plant from picketing its customers. The workers had picketed Carlton and United Breweries and Kraft Foods,
By Aaron Benedek
SYDNEY — Three hundred students rallied at the University of Sydney on March 30, one week after students occupied the Student Centre on a March 22 national day of action against the privatisation of education. The rally is part
No paternity, no payment
Three thousand paternity tests are carried out in Australia every year in laboratories which use DNA samples to ascertain biological parenthood. The samples can be from swabs taken from inside the child's mouth or even
Madagascar!
It is indeed desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs
to [my] ancestors. â Plutarch, AD 46120
Morals Of the Training of Children by Plutarch, the Greek essayist
and biographer, reminds me
MARTIGUES, France — Delegates to the 30th national conference of the French Communist Party (PCF) meeting in this southern French industrial city, in late March, voted for significant changes to the structure and direction of the party. Party
IRELAND: Strike-hit firms say send in army
Employers in Ireland have called for the army to be brought in to run the public transport system hit by a wave of bus and rail strikes. A spokesperson for the Irish employers' federation said the republic
E-mail and workers' rights
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Maria Gencarelli, a superannuation administrative manager with Ansett, was sacked on December 8 for distributing an Australian Services Union (ASU) newsletter using the company's e-mail
Indonesian students demand: No cuts to education subsidies!
By Chris Latham
On April 1, Indonesian students involved in the National Student League for Democracy (LMND) participated in a national mobilisation in Jakarta demanding that the
By Francois Vercammen*
LISBON — A crowd of nearly 1000 gathered in the main amphitheatre of the University of Lisbon on January 29-30 to "listen, discuss, converge" and set up a new political formation — the Bloco de Esquerda, or Left Bloc. The
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