MOSCOW — Since tanks of the armed forces finally blew away Russia's parliament on October 4, President Boris Yeltsin has moved swiftly to suspend, disband or intimidate the major potential sources of opposition to his rule.
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In Green Left #117, there was a report of a meeting held in Melbourne around "Genetics and Sexuality". The current controversy centres on an article by Dean H. Hamer and co-workers in the July 16 edition of Science.
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The tradition of science — the science we are used to — looks upon events in terms of constituent parts. We find out about the whole by cutting it up into individual bits and pieces. Each bit has its own intrinsic properties,
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A year ago the British government of John Major announced a massive coal mine closure plan that within months would have closed 30 pits with the loss of 30,000 jobs. The announcement produced an outcry from the broader community which culminated in a
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By Bergen O'Brien and Reihana Mohideen On January 1, 1991, Sue Franknel and Bill Strait (US citizens), Moana Cole from New Zealand and Ciaron O'Reilly from Brisbane — calling themselves "Anzus Ploughshares" — seriously compromised the
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Australia is home to 17 million people and 24 million cattle. On a cowpat ratio, that's one of the highest proportions of cattle to people in the world. In Queensland, beef cattle outnumber humans by more than two to one. In
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On July 26 in Richmond, a predominantly African-American industrial city in the San Francisco Bay area, more than 7000 pounds of sulfuric acid fumes poured from a leaky General Chemical railroad car for three hours, forming a
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Plot to assassinate ANC youth leaderSouth African police have uncovered a plot by white right-wingers to murder the president of the African National Congress Youth League, Peter Mokaba. The police, however, have refused to
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The United States is deploying further troops and armour to Somalia after 12 US troops were killed, and at least one captured, in its October 3-4 attack on Hawiye clan leader, Mohammed Aideed. The attack killed an estimated 500
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The government of Swaziland is reported to be using drought relief aid to lure voters to register under a widely rejected system of elections. Swaziland has had a democracy drought for 20 years after the traditionalist
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The war against the majority This statement was issued by the "North-South Dialogue" sponsored by the World Federation of Democratic Youth in New Delhi, September 22-23. Although the cold war between the USA and the USSR may have finished,
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Solidarity theme of North-South dialogueNEW DELHI — A round-table discussion on "North-South dialogue: youth perspectives" was held here September 22-23. Organised by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), the