Free Mzwakhe Mbuli!
By Dorothy Flynn
Mzwakhe Mbuli, South Africa's beloved poet, musician and movement hero, has been incarcerated for 14 months. He is being held at the Pretoria Local Prison awaiting trial on January 22 for bank robbery. He has
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To another year of resistance
For the regular readers, contributors and distributors of Green Left Weekly, the last month or so may have been a little more relaxing than usual, but it has also been frustrating.
While many workers tried to enjoy a
WOMAD returns to its roots
By Melanie Sjoberg
Do you need an excuse to visit Adelaide? The WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) '99 festival. February 19-21, provides them — in abundance. A variety of international musical experiences, in the midst
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Premier John Olsen and the state Liberal government are squirming with embarrassment over their handling of state public sector workers' wages and conditions in recent weeks. Prior to the end of the 1998 school year,
Brisbane River 'a sewer pipe'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Brisbane River, and the Bremer River flowing into it from Ipswich, have become "sewer pipes", funnelling pollution, effluent and sediment into Moreton Bay, a report has revealed. The
By Jon Land
Foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer announced on January 12 that the federal government now recognises that East Timor has the right to self-determination. In a media release titled "Australian government historic policy shift on
Two leaders of the New Left Front in Sri Lanka were brutally assaulted on January 13 while campaigning in provincial council elections. Dr Vicramabahu Karunaratne, the general secretary of the Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP), Patrick Fernando, the NLF
Radioactive racism
By Jim Green
The nuclear industry profits from and reinforces racism. Backed by its political partners, the industry forces uranium mines, nuclear reactors, radioactive waste dumps and weapons tests on to the land of
Resistance condemns racist jailings
By Andy Gianniotis
BRISBANE — Resistance, the socialist youth group, has spoken out against the jailing of a 14-year-old Aboriginal woman in the Mackay watch-house. The woman is the sister of an 11-year-old
By Norm Dixon
President Bill Clinton on December 16 launched the United States' latest bombardment of the Iraqi people. Disregarding overwhelming worldwide opposition, Washington and London launched a massive four-night air attack that killed at
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