South Africa fuels Rwanda civil war
Copies of two invoices received by the Oslo-based World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa reveal that arms and ammunition worth around US$6 million were sold to the
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EYA pedals against pollution
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — The next generation of young people faces tremendous problems of pollution and environmental destruction because of the neglect of the past, Phoebe Clark, a 13-year-old high school
Campaign for jailed publisher
An international campaign in solidarity with South Korean publisher Ilbung Choe is being stepped up with the launch of an international petition. Choe was jailed for two years in October merely for publishing
Peltier frame-up highlighted
By Norm Dixon
Amnesty International is highlighting the case of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier in this Year of the Indigenous Peoples, AI's US chairperson, Rick Halperin, told Green Left
By Igal Avidan
On February 28 exactly 50 years ago, a few hundred women began a historic demonstration in Nazi Germany — perhaps the only public protest against the Holocaust ever to be staged under Hitler.
Yet the demonstration is
By Michael Rafferty
Recessions have always had a direct and obvious impact on the working class, and the current downturn is no exception. Mass unemployment, wage cuts and an intensification of work are all features of this recession.
ALP and preferences
Re Steve Robson's article, "WA election results and preferences (GLW, March 17).
As was published at the time, I resigned from the (WA) ALP in protest of the Serious and Repeat Offenders Sentencing Act 1992 and the WA
By John Hutnyk
SYDNEY — In various community media, activists have written recently about the planned three-university "advanced technology park" (ATP) targeted for Redfern. The communities involved called, among other things, for a
Blood Moon
By Tes Lyssiotis
Directed by Robert Draffin
Cast: Nina Landis, Maggie Millar, Diedre Rubinstein, Mary Sitarenos
Theatreworks, Melbourne, until March 28
Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey
Blood Moon is Tes Lyssiotis' 13th play
Asia's booming economies
By Norm Dixon
Hong Kong-born SBS reporter Jane Hutcheon has spent six and a half weeks investigating Asia's fast-growing economies and the impact this development is having on ordinary people. She visited six
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Amid anguished plaints from liberal ideologues and the indifference of the mass of the population, the Eighth Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation voted on March 12 to strip President Boris
Sean Kenan acquitted
Aidex protester Sean Kenan was acquitted of charges of assaulting police by the ACT Supreme Court on March 19, following failure by the prosecution to prove at least one key element of the alleged offence.
Kenan was
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