ADELAIDE — Around 80 people gathered on the steps of Parliament House on October 2 to protest against Indonesia's occupation of East Timor and demand the release of resistance leader Xanana Gusmao. The demonstration was part of a weekend of
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By Claudette Begin
A woman's right to choose when, if and how to have children is at the core of the women's movement. And yet increasingly, as concern grows about the scarcity of resources and the poverty here in the US and in Third World
Police blasted for Aidex violence
The Commonwealth ombudsman has condemned as "inexcusable" the methods used by Australian Federal Police against protesters during the Aidex demonstration in Canberra in November 1991.
A report released by
By Sam Wainwright
In the next few weeks Environmental Youth Alliance activists in cities around Australia will be protesting against the increasing pollution of the environment under the banner "People Against Pollution".
The greenhouse
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — "Anglo American are telling the outside world that there is no apartheid in their company, and that they are opposed to the apartheid system. That is not true. There is a lot of apartheid in this company."
The view from Tralfamadore
Fates Worse Than Death — An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s
By Kurt Vonnegut
Vintage, 1992. 240 pp. $12.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Once upon a time artists were people; that is, they were for the
By Vannessa Hearman
Melbourne — A leaked government report, which was suppressed by both Labor and Liberal state governments, declares Mobil's Williamstown facilities and its controversial expansion plans unsafe.
The report, released on
Plot to assassinate ANC youth leader
By Norm Dixon
South 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
Workers protest compo cuts
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — A rally was held to protest the against changes to workers compensation introduced since last November as part of Victorian Trades Hall Council's week of action against the Kennett
Egyptian trials a travesty, says Amnesty
Mass trials of civilians in military courts in
Egypt are grossly unfair, and many of those being tried
have reportedly been tortured to extract confessions,
said Amnesty International on September
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — Some 30,000 people took to the streets of Melbourne on October 6 in what is probably the last anti-Kennett mass rally called by Trades Hall. The demonstration was the high point of Trades Hall's "week of action".
Drumming
For my Australian readers' benefit "drumming" is the word I will use in place of the word campaigning. I am trying to drum up support for men of colour all over the world, and in particular for the much maligned African-American man.
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