Benetton boycott called By Darryl O'Donnell BRISBANE — The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) demonstrated outside the Benetton clothing chain last week, claiming that Benetton was profiteering from images of people with AIDS. An
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Malaysian threat to Bougainville By Norm Dixon Moses Havini, the Bougainville Interim Government's representative in Australia, has condemned Malaysia's decision to provide military aid and counter-insurgency training to the PNG Defence
By Peter Annear BUDAPEST — With CNN and Skynews broadcasts booming in 24 hours a day, the citizens of Budapest — and most of eastern Europe — have now seen with their own eyes the quality of life in the United States. Many here were glued
Looks after who? "How would you like to live next to deserted women and children?" — Keith Hewitt of estate agent Raine and Horne ("Raine and Horne looks after you") in Canberra, complaining to the Canberra Times about a recent land purchase
Get Australia working By Dr John Tomlinson Federally, Labor came to power at the height of the 1982-83 recession. During the period it has been in office, unemployment has never dropped below 6% and has averaged 9%. This has been a disaster
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — An important breakthrough, it seemed, was about to occur in the fight to defend Russian workers. On May 1, the back-to-Brezhnev Trudovaya Rossiya ("Toiling Russia") bloc was not the only formation calling its
NSW Liberals in disarray By Barry Healy SYDNEY — The New South Wales government is in serious disarray as the scandal over the attempt to give Liberal renegade Dr Terry Metherell a plum Public Service job moves into its second month. The
By Sally Low and Peter Annear Elections in France, Italy and Germany over the last two months have delivered sharp rebuffs to major parties in both government and opposition. While in all three cases increased support for far right parties
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the author of the book The Mugging of Black America and a correspondent for the US Guardian newspaper. He spoke to Green Left Weekly by telephone about the underlying conditions that led to the explosion triggered in Los
Politics after Los Angeles Following the collapse of the bureaucratic attempts to build socialism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, propagandists for capitalism had a field day proclaiming the victory of their system. Some even
Unions in tiff with Kirner By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — A plan to corporatise state utilities, including the State Electricity Commission, the Gas and Fuel Corporation and Melbourne Water, has been endorsed by the Kirner government's cabinet
By Nora Richardson Bobby Sands was born in March 1954 in Newtownabbey, a Unionist area. His first introduction to violence came when he was six. The Unionists found out that the family was both Catholic and Nationalist — and so started the
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