Commemorating Dili massacre SYDNEY — To commemorate the first anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre, the East Timorese community in NSW will stage a three-day protest. It will begin on November 12 with a vigil outside the Indonesian
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By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — "We haven't had a single case of a woman being murdered", the head of a Moscow callgirl agency boasted recently to a reporter for the journal Business World. For Russian gangsters dissatisfied with the returns
50,000 march in London By Catherine Brown LONDON — Around Hyde Park on October 21, the many dozens of coaches lining the streets were an indication of the distances many protesters against the pit closures had travelled to be there. Others
By Irwin Silber The most intriguing question about Perot's independent bid for the presidency remains: what prompted it? Personal vanity and private wealth surely played a role, but they hardly explain the Perot phenomenon. Nor do the
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Russia's major "new left" political formation, the Party of Labour, held its founding congress here on October 9 and 10. The party was established in the form of an organising committee at the end of August last
Tributes Tributes and messages of condolence for Jim Percy received since Sunday, October 18: Brian Aarons, Eric Aarons, Rob Durbridge, Greg Giles, Peter Murphy and Pat Ranald. Aksi Setiakawan, the Indonesian organisation in the
By Tracy Sorensen "You hope you can have a few screenings of your film, and maybe get it on TV somewhere", says Canadian film maker Mark Achbar. "But for a feature-length documentary on what for many people is an obscure American intellectual
Class Culture — A Play We Wrote Written and directed by Tim Brain and Paul Tassone Reviewed by Rurik Davidson Class Culture is about young people rehearsing a play — Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — and doing it their way. They have
By Robyn Marshall Mexico City held a huge party for Rigoberta Menchu Tum on October 20, to celebrate her winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. As soon as she heard the announcement, she had gone to Guatemala to speak with the indigenous Indian
By Peter Anderson Endangered species legislation now before federal cabinet may still be accepted by environment organisations "with reservations". But if the public's "third-party" rights to challenge development proposals were removed and
Following chemical disasters in Melbourne's inner-west such as the 1985 Butlers Transport fire, the 1989 United Transport fire, the 1990 Dynon Road chemical spill and the 1991 Coode Island fire, the Hazardous Materials Action Group (HAZMAG) is
By Steven Hiatt A week before the US elections, the Democratic presidential ticket of Bill Clinton and Al Gore maintains a 15% lead in national polls over Republican incumbents George Bush and Dan Quayle, while the Ross Perot's revived
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