Victorian actions against woodchipping
By Rachel Evans
MELBOURNE — Two actions were held in Victoria on December 9 against renewal of 10 woodchipping licences. One action, at the woodchipping mill in Eden, was organised by the Wilderness
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Auschwitz Admonishes
em= By Denis Kevans
["Auschwitz admonishes" — Pope John Paul II]
"Auschwitz admonishes"
Pope John Paul says it's so,
"Auschwitz admonishes",
The Popentate says so.
And Maidanek's a caution,
I'm sure
Poem: Pleasures
By Walter Jones
Visiting the toilet
To read.
Eating
In company.
Drinking wine.
Good comedy
This newspaper
and
Dialectics.
How pleasing it is
To change the world.
In my need
To
There is freedom.
ADELAIDE — Both a December 7 rally of more than 100 people opposing the occupation of East Timor by Indonesia, and an East Timor independence dinner of a similar size held on December 3, heard Fatima Gusmao speak about the struggle for justice and
The Pacification of Central America: Political Change in the Isthmus, 1987-1993
By James Dunkerley
Verso, 1994. $34.95
Reviewed by Neville Spencer
In Central America the 1980s were dominated by civil wars, with casualties numbering into
NABIHA MORKUS is a Palestinian member of Women in Black and secretary in Tel Aviv of Democratic Women, which, like Women in Black, includes both Jewish and Arab women. VIVIENNE PORZSOLT interviewed her for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly.
How did you come to
Row over banning of magazine
By Brendan Greenhill
BRISBANE — The Queensland Department of Consumer Affairs has refused distribution of the December issue of the lifestyle magazine Simply Living. The department has banned the magazine
Following its narrow defeat in Brazil's 1989 presidential elections the Workers Party (PT) believed that outright victory in 1994 was possible. But though the PT significantly increased its initial vote in comparison with 1989, it was not enough to
The power of one
Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I have wished for such a tongue of oratory that might enable me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country in a style equal to its merits and felicity.
I do
By Kerryn Williams
MELBOURNE — More than 200 activists from campuses around the country gathered here on December 5-6 to plan a national campaign in opposition to fees.
The conference, held at Melbourne University, was initiated in
Salvadoran workers stand firm over racism
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Latin American workers at the Steel-Line Doors factory at Sumner Park, in the western suburbs here, are standing firm in their month-long strike over allegations of racist
By Liam Mitchell
WOLLONGONG — The decision by mining giant CRA to close its Illawarra subsidiary Southern Copper Ltd (SCL) has raised questions about the motives. Organisers in the Australian Workers Union-Federation of Industrial
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