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By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Super League
Students to target the ALP on May 3 By Emma Webb ADELAIDE - The South Australian Education Network, formed to organise South Australia's contribution to the No Fees for Degrees campaign, is planning a rally and march to target the ALP for
E.P. THOMPSON: Objections And Oppositions By Bryan D. Palmer Verso, 1994. 201 pp., $34.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Edward Thompson has inspired many on the left with his spicy brand of Marxist history and socialist agitation. Bryan
A leaked internal World Bank memo charges that the great majority of India's dams are unsafe by present standards. Of 25 dams surveyed by an ongoing World Bank dam safety project, none had been designed to hold back the amount of water which, it is
The Butterfly CD Produced and distributed by Stand Against Sexual Assault (SASA), Perth Featuring 12 contributing bands Reviewed by Kath Gelber This compilation has been put together by a group of young people in Perth who are campaigning
By Jennifer Thompson WA Greens senators Dee Margetts and Christabel Chamarette are opposing social spending cuts in the 1995 federal budget, arguing instead for an increase in corporate taxation and cuts to defence spending. Speaking to
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — At least half a million workers took to the streets of Russian cities on April 12, in some of the largest coordinated labour demonstrations in the country's history. Further millions took part in workplace protest
Adams calls on 'marching feet and angry voices' By Sean Magill and Maureen Baker As Irish Republicans around the world commemorated the Easter rising of 1916, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams sent a clear message to the British government.
Correction GLW #183 reported that the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1994 had been passed by the Senate on March 30. In fact, debate on this bill and the amendments being proposed by the Greens (WA) was deferred until the Senate
The campaign against woodchipping of old growth forests has given rise to a heightened public awareness and concern about environmental issues. Green Left Weekly's REBECCA MECKELBURG spoke to CHRISTINE MILNE, leader of the Tasmanian Greens, about the
By Eva Cheng Increased repression of dissident and ethnic minority movements in China has failed to silence opposition voices. A section of the Xinjiang independence movement chose bombing to make its point, while protests rocked the city of
Pocket change: an interview By Brandon Astor Jones Would you mind telling me how long you were homeless before you came to prison? Altogether, about five months. Did you work before you fell on hard times, and if so, what did you