COLOMBIA: US to intensify support for terror state
By Joseph Raso
United States policymakers are preparing to substantially increase their materiel backing for Latin America's premier human rights violator. A $1.6 billion package for Colombia,
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Federation of Cuban Women
Australian tour, July 22-30
You are invited to help organise the national tour of the Federation of Cuban Women!
The Federation of Cuban Women, an outstanding champion of women's rights around the world, was organised
Led by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the workers of South Korea's four main automobile manufacturers have launched a united campaign to resist a government plan to allow the sale of Daewoo Motors, one of the four, to a foreign
The 'new' relationship
In the wake of Labor leader Kim Beazley's meeting last week in Jakarta with Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid and PM John Howard's response to Wahid's announcement on April 27 that he was postponing his May visit to
OthelloBy William ShakespeareQuasimodoBondi Pavilion, Sydneyuntil May 14 Review by Brendan Doyle
There are productions that stay with you long after you have left the theatre. This version of Shakespeare's classic tale of jealousy is one of them.
BY CHRIS ATKINSON
MELBOURNE — "The year 2000 is the year of emergency", Xanana Gusmao, the chairperson of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT), told 500 invited guests at the May 4 opening of the Melbourne office of the CNRT's
Kow-tows
Indonesia's interception of Australian aircraft and its contemptuous response to protest raises the question of why we continue to have Australian forces protecting such democrats as Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir.
It also
KURDISTAN: Solidarity helps stop attacks on communists
The following is abridged from a letter sent on April 20 by Rebwar Ahmed, secretary of the central committee of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, to all those organisations which supported
Thousands of people protested in Indonesia on April 1 against policies demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in exchange for loans — these include cuts to subsides on fuel, public transport, electricity and education. An increase in
Maralinga: 'old test sites never die'
BY JIM GREEN
On April 16, ABC Radio National's Background Briefing lifted the lid on the troubled clean-up of the Maralinga region of north-west South Australia, contaminated by British nuclear weapons tests
An innocent person is executed
By Brandon Astor Jones
Tens of thousands of black men, women and children were hanged, burned, shot, or tortured to death by mobs in the United States between 1882 and 1986; of these crimes, only the tiniest
Incat workers denies pay rise despite huge profit
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Shipbuilding company Incat made a $53 million after-tax profit in 1998-99 — $17 million more than the previous year — yet Incat boss Craig Clifford is denying a
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