Ireland: RUC suspected in lawyer's murder
By Dave Riley
A well-known human rights lawyer who had received death threats for her work representing nationalists in one of Northern Ireland's most volatile communities was killed on March 15 when a
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Students across New Zealand are organising against government attempts to introduce "voluntary student membership" of student organisations. A VSM law passed last year requires all student associations to run referendums on "compulsory" membership by
Brisbane: 12pm, King George Square;
Canberra: 1pm, Workers' Club;
Hobart: 12.30am, Refectory steps, Tasmania University;
Melbourne: 1.30pm, State Library;
Sydney: 1pm, Town Hall.
Rights wins Salvadoran election
On March 10, the Salvadoran Supreme Electoral Tribunal officially certified Francisco Flores, of the right-wing Republican Nationalist Alliance (ARENA), as the winner of the March 7 presidential elections. Flores won
Reclaim the Streets
MELBOURNE — In a protest against the increasing amount of space being taken up by cars, the Friends of the Earth Transport Collective here organised a Reclaim the Streets march and street party on March 13. Around 1500
Hobart abortion services to expand
By Kamala Emanuel
HOBART — Over the past month, the local Mercury newspaper has run a series of reports and letters regarding a proposal to establish a new abortion clinic at Bellerive on the city's eastern
Democrats denounced over 'lunatic fringe' charge
By Jonathan Singer
The Greens have called the Australian Democrats' NSW election slogan, "Silence the lunatic fringe", offensive and hypocritical. Lee Rhiannon, Greens upper house candidate, on
By Cam Walker
March 24 marked the 10th anniversary of the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in Alaska, one of the worst oil disasters in history. Friends of the Earth International chose that day to release a report on Exxon and its new
By Renfrey Clarke
NOVOSIBIRSK — There's not a great deal of joy in being a worker in Russia, and things are harder still if you are not in the relatively well-off capital, Moscow. Left-wing activism continues even in some of the most remote
CPSU branch rejects communications split
By Ben Courtice
MELBOURNE — A major issue at the March 11 Victorian branch conference of the Community and Public Sector Union (PSU group) was a proposal for the Telecommunications section of the union
Coping with the water crisis
Sydney on TapBy John ArcherPure Water Press, 199896pp, $9.95 (paperback) Review by Dot Tumney
John Archer's latest water quality opus provides a description of the events surrounding Sydney's 1998 water crisis. The
A view from death row
US political prisoner MUMIA ABU-JAMAL was interviewed in January by JACK HEYMAN for the US International Longshore and Warehouse Union's journal, the Dispatcher. It has been abridged here. Abu-Jamal, a radical African-American
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