Riot police cracked down and fired tear gas on thousands of protesters in central Rio de Janeiro on October 17 as marches flooded the streets to reject unelected President Michel Temer’s proposed 20-year freeze on public spending, which critics say will spell disaster in the cash-strapped country.
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By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Trades Hall Council has called for a "week of action" against the Kennett government's attacks on workers and public services.
Beginning October 3 and culminating in a city rally on October 6 as
By Pip Hinman
"Bill Clinton's 'successful' operation in Mogadishu has led to an unknown number of civilian deaths, has undermined the entire relief effort, and alienated the majority of ordinary Somalis from the very people they had hoped had
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — On the night of August 25, unknown assailants fired more than 100 bullets into the country house of Yuri Gekht, a business leader and head of the Industrial Union faction of the Russian parliament. Gekht, who has
US blockade of Cuba opposed
PANAMA CITY — Cuba has taken its case against the
United States' 30-year blockade to the Group of 77,
made up of developing countries.
The head of Cuba's delegation, Angel Gomez Trueba,
attending a
Kennett to axe 18,000 more jobs
By Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — Victoria's official unemployment rate hit a post-1930s high of 13% in August, yet in its September 7 budget the Kennett government announced plans to get rid of another 18,000
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA â Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro used her Armed Forces Day address on September 3 to announce that the head of the Sandinista Popular Army, General Humberto Ortega, will be sacked early next year, plunging the
Secondary students strike
By Elle Morrell
MELBOURNE — Students from Epping Secondary organised a strike on September 7 against cuts to education. Amidst a sea of anti-Kennett and "No cuts to schools" placards, three-quarters of the school
Red Belly Blues
Red Belly Blues
By Red Belly Blues
Reviewed by John Tognolini
Red Belly Blues is a duo composed of Chris O'Connor on acoustic 12-string guitar and vocals and Damian Cohen on harmonica and vocals. Their music is addictive
By Sean Flood
(This is the abridged text of a speech made in Sydney on August 25 at the launch of the second edition of the author's book Mabo: A Symbol of Sharing. Sean Flood is the NSW public defender.)
Mabo ditched terra nullius, the
Gyorgy Scrinis continues a debate
In his response to my article on "Industrial Cuisine", Dave Riley's dismissal of my critique of supermarket culture and the modern diet, and his attack on food cooperatives, show how out of touch he is with some
ADELAIDE — Alice, one of the protesters on trial from the Nurrungar demonstration at Easter, has been fined $125, plus $64 court costs and an additional $750 which are deemed to be "prosecution costs". The rest of the 32 cases have had their
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