As President Donald Trump聽delivered his聽in June 1 of withdrawing the United States from Paris climate agreement, environmental group 350.org laid out steps for an energised people's movement that could 鈥渞ise up like never before鈥 and stop the anti-science White House from destroying the planet.
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The mass left split in the Philippines Communist Party (CPP) which has rejected the CPP leadership's Maoist program and declared itself a democratic socialist tendency, has shaken up the entire Philippines left. Supporters of hardline Maoist and CPP
By Kath Kenny
SYDNEY 鈥 Private security is the second fastest growing industry in Australia after tourism, and Australia now has one of the highest rates of prisoners in private prisons in the world. Last week, John Hannaford, the NSW attorney
Youth survey on pollies
A nationwide AGB Mcnair survey, commissioned by ABC TV's youth current affairs program Attitudes, gives a big thumbs down to the federal government and politicians in general.
Only 2% of the 750 respondents aged
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.
As most nations
Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
By Rick Atkinson
Harper Collins, 1994. 504 pp. $39.95
Reviewed by Paul Hemphill
In the disturbing documentary The Panama Deception, one of the very few instances of wry humour related to
King Lear
Directed by David Ritchie
New Theatre, King St, Newtown
Reviewed by Helen Jarvis
Sydney's New Theatre continues its long tradition of good performances of classics to complement its contemporary, Australian and progressive
Story and photo
by Therese Mackay
PORT MACQUARIE 鈥 NSW health minister Ron Phillips snuck into town on April 8 desperately trying to avoid 60 protesting locals angered by the long waiting lists at the public hospital and plans to privatise
By Jo Obronschka
NEWCASTLE 鈥 Environmentalists and concerned residents are outraged at a proposal to allow a new township of 17,000 people to be built on a coastal dune area at Fern Bay, 15 kilometres north of here.
The council has asked
Increased danger from ultraviolet radiation
Leaked research from a top laboratory of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the United States indicates that sun-screens may not provide protection from excessive ultraviolet radiation (UV-B)
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG 鈥 Angry public servants in what is left of South Africa's discredited system of ethnic "homelands" are continuing to press their demands militantly. Workers in the health services of KwaZulu, Transkei, Lebowa and
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA 鈥 District Six in Managua's eastern section is a working-class area and a strong base for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Recently I was invited to a meeting in the district where representatives of
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