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Cuba's security council term ends By Héctor Igarza UNITED NATIONS — For both friends and foes, the Security Council will not be the same this year. Cuba completed its term as member of that body on December 31. Evaluating its two
By Jorge Jorquera We know from experience that it is possible to organise mass opposition to the attacks on education. When the ALP federal government began moving towards tertiary fees by introducing the Higher Education Administration Charge
By Kristian Whittaker and Sue Bolton CANBERRA — Last month, Aborigines briefly occupied the old Parliament House and issued a Declaration of Aboriginal Sovereignty "invoking our claim to all the lands of the territories of our ancestors".
By Pat Walsh Indonesia shot itself badly in the foot on November 12, when troops gunned down at least 100 East Timorese civilians outside the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili. There have been many massacres in East Timor, starting with and
It can happen here Baghdad, Maastricht, Tokyo, Dubrovnik: these are words associated with the emerging post-Cold War political and economic order. For feminists around the world, the words Wichita and Dublin are surely just as evocative: the
By Melanie Sjoberg MELBOURNE — While some media and business circles have hailed the recent Nissan plant closure as a necessary rationalisation, prospects in the vehicle industry are no brighter for Nissan's demise. Ford motors has announced
NEWCASTLE — Around 180 members of the Combined Waterfront Group of Unions staged a stop-work and march on the morning of February 17, in protest at Maritime Services Board plans to make 30 blue collar workers redundant in pursuit of "structural
By Norm Dixon Criminal charges were laid against Fiji Trade Union Congress (FTUC) general secretary Mahendra Chaudhry on February 7 under the provisions of repressive labour laws that came into force on October 31. Chaudhry was charged with
By Ben Ross "Capitalism needs the university as it needs the working class, but the university, like the working class, does not need capitalism." — Santiago Carrillo. The reorganisation of the Australian education system over the last
City of Hope Written and directed by John Sayles Starring Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Blanco, Joe Morton and Angela Bassett At the Mandolin Cinema, Sydney Reviewed by Barry Healy John Sayles launches a full frontal assault on the myth of the
Certainly not "He is certainly not an employee." — Philip von Hardenberg, manager of Sydney's Ritz Carlton hotel, on being asked whether Bob Hawke is paying the full rate of $525 per night, or whether he has a special deal for the several
By Tom Flanagan HOBART — A blockade organised by the Wilderness Society brought road works to a standstill in the threatened East Picton region of Tasmania's southern forest on February 17. About 40 protesters, including Green Independent