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Sweet Honey in the Rock on exhilarating tour

By Anne O'Callaghan Says Bernice Johnson Reagon, founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, "The only moment you know you have is the one you occupy. That's the moment you should express yourself." Expressing themselves sums up what these five

New Zealand Greens reaffirm Alliance strategy

By Tom Kelly WELLINGTON — The question whether the New Zealand Greens should go it alone or remain within the five-party Alliance was the key focus of debate at the Greens' annual conference, held here on the weekend of May 14-15. After

Should pornography be censored?

These interviews were conducted by SUJATHA FERNANDES, a member of Resistance and the Network of Women Students Australia. NOWSA is having its annual conference at Macquarie University from July 11 to 15. KIMBERLY O'SULLIVAN is the co-editor of Wicked

The 'new' racism

This is an abridged version of a talk presented at the International Green Left Conference in April by CARL BLOICE, a National Executive member of the Committees of Correspondence (USA). It was one of three talks on a panel presentation on the topic

Military noise muted for Territory elections

By Tim E. Stewart DARWIN — The campaign to have military air exercises removed from the city has scored its first victory. With Territory elections set for June 4, the Singaporean Air Force was temporarily moved to Amberley air base

Write on

Privatised information I now realise why the Brown government has been denigrating public servants at every opportunity since the election. It was so that the rest of the state's working people would more readily accept the impending savage cuts

Not doing what she does best

No‰l Joan Baez Vanguard Hits/Greatest & Others Joan Baez Vanguard Reviewed by Allen Myers I am told that someone recollects, they think, that Joan Baez has become quite a political conservative — even supporting Reagan in the '80s,

Xanana Gusmao: fighting for freedom with words

By Craig Cormick "Gusmao's bullets are always his thoughts." — Agio Pereira, East Timor Relief Association One year ago, on May 21, the East Timorese resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao, was found guilty of plotting against the Indonesian

Migrant women at a disadvantage

VIVIENNE PORZSOLT of Green Left Weekly spoke with CAROLINE ALCORSO of the Association of Non English Speaking Background Women of Australia. Alcorso is one of the authors of a study, Bargained Away: Enterprise Bargaining and Non English-speaking

Kidnapping of Aboriginal youths

SAM WATSON of the Aboriginal Legal Service in Brisbane was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by John Nebauer on May 20. Can you outline what happened on the night in question? On Tuesday, May 10, between 3 and 4am, three Aboriginal

Water supply workers strike

Water supply workers strike By Chris Spindler ADELAIDE — A mass meeting of more than 700 Engineering and Water Supply (E&WS) workers on May 20 voted to strike from Friday May 20 to Monday against the government's audit commission report,

Constitutional crisis in Croatia

By Jolyon Campbell A constitutional crisis has been precipitated in Croatia by the growth of organised opposition to the regime of Franjo Tudjman and the desertion of parliamentary members of the ruling Croatia Democratic Forum (HDZ) to form a