Polish bill curtails right to abortion
WARSAW — The Polish parliament on January 7 approved a modified anti-abortion bill that permits the termination of pregnancies in certain circumstances, but ends the abortion-on-demand policy of the
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — After the stirring events of mid-December, when the Congress of People's Deputies managed to sack acting Premier Yegor Gaidar despite Boris Yeltsin's desire to keep him in office, few Russians were expecting
By Gina Rogers
The Hague — A continuing dispute between a Dutch multinational and British workers has alarmed trade unionists on both sides of the channel. Many of those involved see the case as an indicator of the future weakening of trade
By Catherine Brown
DUBLIN — Just before Ireland voted on the three-part abortion referendum on November 25, Anne Speed, a trade union organiser and Sinn Fein candidate in the previous election, talked to Green Left Weekly about the last 10
Moulding the minds of Israeli children
By Miriam Tramer
Izkor (Slaves of Memory), shown at the Israeli film festival at the end of last year, is a film about the way the Israeli education system moulds the minds of young people to
Summer of protests in Tasmania
By Natasha Simons
HOBART — The Wilderness Society's "long hot summer" campaign of national forest protests began in Tasmania on January 11. TWS national director Karenne Jurd says 150 volunteers have
The real price of oil
Poisoning the earth
By Catherine Brown
Thirty-five kilometres separate Fair Isle from Sumburgh Head, Shetland, a channel used by approximately 1000 tankers a year. A plan, approved by the United Nations
Credibility problems
Western Australian coalition industrial relations spokesperson Graham Kierath, denying that his industrial relations reforms would make anybody worse off or lose their jobs, admitted that "Kennett does cause us
Court cancels the right to picket
By Herb Thompson
PERTH — In a case with far-reaching implications, the Builders Labourers' Federation in Western Australia has been found to have breached Section 45D of the Trade Practices Act, which
Bleak prospects for Tasmania
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — Unemployment in Tasmania reached 12.6% according to seasonally adjusted figures released on January 14.
This is the highest figure recorded in Australia since monthly surveys
Comment by Allen Myers
Part of the population-environment debate in recent issues of Green Left has focused on Paul Erlich's formula I=PAT. This attempts to relate environmental impact to population, average levels of affluence or consumption
Temperate forest conference
Your feature article on the threat to our native forests (GL #82)had a photo of David Bellamy described as a "world renowned botanist".
I urge all readers to regard with extreme caution and cynicism Green
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