By Jane Dillendorf
MOSCOW — According to statistics issued by the Russian Federal Employment Service at the end of January, there are now only 835,000 jobless people in the country — barely 1% of the work force.
However, statistics can
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Youth graffiti
BRISBANE — A Resistance "Graffiti for Youth Rights" action was held in the city mall on Friday, February 4. The stall and banner graffiti took up issues such as the Liberal candidate for lord mayor's proposed youth curfew in the
Settlements threaten Middle East peace
On December 20, three countries voted against the UN General Assembly resolution which expressed support for the Middle East peace process and called for a final settlement under which Israel would withdraw
Greens announce candidate for Fremantle
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — At a press conference on February 11, the Greens (WA) announced that Stephen Walker will be their candidate for the by-election on March 12 in the federal seat of
By Pip Hinman
It took desperate action by 23-year-old David Kang on Australia Day to bring to public attention the plight of some 50 Cambodian asylum seekers behind bars for over four years. Australia is the only Western country with mandatory
Jenny Craig
Kath Tucker's grizzle about Jenny Craig and similar diet institutions (GL #128) fails to take into account the fact that many women wish to lose weight in order to feel better — the fact that they may look better is secondary.
Boycott over whaling
By Lynda Hansen
Greenpeace Australia is urging a boycott of Norwegian products because of the Norwegian government's defiance of an international moratorium on whaling established in 1986.
In recent months
SYDNEY — Songs of Protest, Songs of Struggle is a benefit concert for Green Left Weekly and Actively Radical TV. It will be held on Saturday, February 19, from 8 p.m. at Burland Community Hall, King Street, Newtown. Following are brief
By Jon Land
Television, radio and newspapers are filled with the floundering attempts of the "international community" to deal with the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Cease-fires and agreements never last. This is an ethnic feud over irreconcilable
Luciana Castelina, a leader of the Italian Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) and a member of the European parliament, spoke with Green Left Weekly's Kate Shannon about the coming national elections. Castelina will be a speaker at the
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