Free to Hate: The rise of the new right in post-communist Eastern Europe
By Paul Hockenos
Routledge. 1993. $49 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Hearse
As the mass anti-bureaucratic movement gathered pace in East Germany (GDR) in November and December
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By Margaret Gleeson
GUATEMALA CITY — The Guatemalan public hospital system has collapsed as the country's economic, social and political crisis deepens. Those seeking treatment are required to provide their own medicines, bandages and
Business opposes environmental controls
The Business Council of Australia is to begin immediately lobbying new-old environment minister Graham Richardson for Australia to repudiate certain future international environmental accords.
BCA
Trials of the 280 peace activists arrested at the US base at Nurrungar last Easter continued in the Adelaide Magistrates Court throughout February and early March.
Nearly all the Victorian and South Australian cases have now been "dealt with".
Time to end the profits blow-out
"Companies don't invest in new projects for the public interest or the national good, they do it if they think the project will make a quid", notes Australian industrial correspondent Peter Wilson, in response to
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Budget welfare
French protest against youth wage cuts
Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Paris and other major French cities on Saturday, March 12, against government plans to abolish the minimum youth "wage". This minimum, about A$400 per month,
Pension
I was pleased to see mention in the Action Updates (GLW Mar 9) of the fight to retain the age pension at 60 years for women. This campaign was started by three generations of women at the office of the Combined Pensioners Association in
Fred is a loser
Nile saves the world! Apparently that's the headline this self-proclaimed "morals crusader" would prefer. But his latest antics only confirm popular opinion of him as an antiquated, reactionary bigot.
Last week Fred Nile
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