BY SUE BOLAND
It is getting harder and harder to organise international conferences of the left these days. Rich imperialist governments have taken to routinely denying visas to delegates from Third World countries, even when those delegates have
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BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — Yallourn Energy is attempting to use the Industrial Relations Commission to force the shedding of further jobs and conditions on the workers of the Latrobe Valley. On January 18, as the commission sat, a 400-strong
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Bob Dylan Behind the Shades: The Biography — Take TwoBy Clinton HeylinViking, 2000780 pp, $50 (hb)
In February 1991, as the US was bombarding Iraq in a frenzy of bloodletting, Bob Dylan received a Lifetime Achievement
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — Delegates attending the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions' 19th congress met at the Olympic Park wrestling stadium here on January 18 to elect a new leadership. While KCTU congresses meet each year, a new leadership is
BY FAROOQ TARIQ
In a dramatic political move, the ruling military government has allowed ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif to leave Pakistan for Saudi Arabia with 19 family members. Sharif had been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for trying to
BY LYNDA HANSEN
BRISBANE — Each week, US-backed counterrevolutionary groups broadcast 2800 hours of propaganda into Cuba, using a frequency that the country's government cannot block without also playing havoc with aircraft navigation controls,
BY JON LAND
Speculation is increasing that, after the stalemate that occurred at the first round of talks in October, the federal government and representatives of the East Timorese are readying to compromise on the future of the Timor Gap Treaty
EAST TIMOR: UN agency workers go on strike
BY VANYA TANAJA
DILI Workers at three World Food Program warehouses here took strike
action on January 8 and then went to the headquarters of the WFP the next
day when the agency took no
BY PETER JOHNSTON
DARWIN — "We expect over 50% of the first elected parliament — definitely", Estanislau da Silva reassured trade unionists here on January 11, claiming that his party, Fretilin, is the only political group in East Timor with
On why so many people attempt to move to Australia: "For some it might be the excitement and challenge of testing their resourcefulness" — National Press Club speech, March 3, 1998.
On torture: Ruddock rejected Amnesty International's demand that
BY MOUIN RABBANI
There has been a flurry of diplomatic activity designed to achieve an Israel-Palestinian treaty prior to US President Bill Clinton's January 20 departure from the White House. On January 3, the White House announced that
Rory McLeod is a one-man-band with soul, poetry and politics running through his veins. His eccentric melodies are infused with influences from English music halls, Spanish Flamenco and the blues, through to Celtic, eastern European and Calypso
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