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Action for native title BRISBANE — A branch of Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) was launched here on August 31. Fifty people gathered at Kangaroo Point to hear speakers stress the need to defeat the Howard
By Norm Dixon Veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war have mounted a determined campaign to expose the Mugabe government's failure to deliver decent living standards and land for the poor, and to fight corruption. Veterans want decent pensions and
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne
By Eva Cheng Ever since Beijing's turn toward the market in 1978, top Communist officials have repeated a "determination" to defend socialism and that state ownership would remain the "mainstay" of the economy. Beijing's key measure of
Decriminalise prostitution Debates surrounding brothels in two Sydney suburbs raise, once again, the question of feminists' perspective on prostitution. Earlier this year a brothel which has operated in Liverpool Street for five
Pulling the strings on an old classic By Lynda Hansen BRISBANE — Sixty years after its first publication, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has been brought to life. After six years of lobbying for funding, puppet design and construction and
By Chris Spindler Seventy people attended a fascinating seminar on the origins and nature of racism, and how to fight it, held at the Resistance Centre in Sydney on September 9. The talks presented generated a lot of discussion, in particular a
By Peter Green The Democratic Socialist Party has a new web page. It can be accessed at http://www.peg.apc.org/~dsp. It aims to be not only an accessible introduction to the views and activities of the DSP, but also an extensive resource of DSP
Hands off native title! Land rights now! While pretending otherwise, Howard and his government are trying to push through with "bucket loads of extinguishment", as deputy PM Tim Fischer rather aptly, if undiplomatically, described the racist
Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne ClemensBy Andrew HoffmanWeidenfeld & Nicolson1997, 572 pp., $49.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon Mark Twain is often regarded as a simple humorist and writer of children's books about growing
Tasmania's parliament In GLW #287 Tony Iltis wrote about the proposed revamp of Tasmania's parliament. The current format is a two-house parliament with 35 members elected to the lower house with each of five electorates returning seven members
By Michael Karadjis ATHENS — The US/NATO-controlled "stabilisation forces" occupying Bosnia have come out openly on the side of Bosnian Serb President Biliana Plavsic in her power struggle with the clique around former president