Washington announces arrangements on migration of Cubans
The United States has announced a plan to grant 20,000 entry visas a year to Cubans requesting residence in the US, in compliance with the accord signed with Cuba on September 9 in
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By Jennifer Thompson
Following the October 19 suicide bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv by Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made it clear the attack would be used as a pretext to move further toward his
ALP and left — 1
I empathise with George Georges' return to social democratic politics (GLW #159). Left communities outside of the ALP are disappointingly fragmented. Life on the far left is like a concert with no audience or a party
By Ian Harrison
In the six years of the Bougainville war, the Australian government has directly invested over $200 million into the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF). According to Department of Defence information, around 100
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — About 60 people attended the launching here on October 14 of Macedonia: Its Disputed History, by Neil Simpson.
The book provides a brief overview of Macedonia's complex history, giving a background to
ALICE SPRINGS — Aboriginal women, friends and supporters will gather on October 27 to celebrate the survival of Aboriginal women's law and culture. The celebrations will be hosted by the Alukura Council, which has designed, planned and developed
SA teachers fight cuts
By Adam Hanieh
ADELAIDE — The South Australian Institute of Teachers has promised to continue industrial action over the state government's $22 million education cuts.
Teachers in South
Judgmental judges
Only last week in Wollongong, a judge, convicting a man of assault against his spouse, used the opportunity to pass judgment on the female victim of the violence instead. In this particular case, three years earlier the
KATH GELBER discusses the issues raised in a controversial new book, Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the battle over Women's Freedom, by Janice G. Raymond. The book is published by Spinifex Press, at a recommended retail price of
By Angela Matheson
As a clothing machinist in Manila unable to feed and house her small son, Susie accepted a job offer of sex work in Sydney. "I am here", she says, "to work hard, and in six months I will go home and buy a house and have
Graham Greene: The Man Within
By Michael Shelden
Heinemann, 1994. 537 pp., $45 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The left has got Graham Greene entirely wrong. According to Shelden's biography, Greene was no friend of
Jim McIlroy continues a debate
Roger Clarke (GLW #162) correctly describes isolation from the working class as the key problem facing the socialist movement today. In his article entitled "Isolation from the workers: the real prison for
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