BY PIP HINMAN
For one and a half days, from the morning of June 7, the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference, held a holiday resort outside Jakarta, had been proceeding relatively smoothly. Eighty Indonesian democracy activists and more than
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Corporate collapses: Make the rich pay
BY ALISON DELLIT
It has not been a good two months for the old boys of the elite
Cranbrook School in the affluent Sydney suburb of Point Piper. Following
the collapse of insurance giant HIH, 1976
BY SALIM VALLY& PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG — United States secretary of state Colin Powell was forced to spend an extra hour hemmed in the University of Witwatersrand campus by demonstrators on June 1, learning why the US is now widely regarded as
Alas, radio and television programming that does not, one program at
a time, promote the life and cohesive development of the entire human family,
destroys it. Irving Elmer Bell.
The mind boggles when faced with the stark reality of what
BY SEAN HEALY
The architects of an integrated, capitalist Europe were dealt a stunning blow on June 7 when a clear majority in Ireland voted to reject the Treaty of Nice, the blueprint for the European Union's expansion.
The "yes" case in the
BY SUE BOLAND
Once the news broke in Australia about the police and militia attack on the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity conference in Indonesia on June 8 and the detention of conference participants, friends and relatives of the detainees in
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — In its first election campaign, in the by-election for the federal seat of Aston, the newly-formed Socialist Alliance plans to put the street back into street campaigning, calling an anti-GST protest for Wantirna on June
BY DANI BARLEY
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — The headline on the front page read in big bold letters, "8.14 am. It was over". The US federal government has executed Timothy McVeigh, the man who committed the worst act of terrorism on US soil.
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The movement for refugee rights took a great leap forward on June 3, Australia's first ever nationally coordinated day of protest in defence of the rights of detained asylum seekers. Rallying to the cry "Free the refugees",
BY GEOFF FRANCIS
HOBART Environmental activists have chalked up a significant victory
by forcing the state government to announce on June 5 that it is shelving
its plans for a deep water port at Electrona in south-east Tasmania. The
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