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
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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
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 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
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
Cuba has boldly initiated alternative and ecologically sustainable methods of food production with the aim of improving food self-sufficiency among urban communities. Luis Sanchez Almanza, agronomist, permaculture activist and horticultural community
The continuing terror against Libya
By Fan Yew Teng
Kuala Lumpur: Egret Publications, 1993. 119 pp.
Reviewed by Pip Hinman
Apart from Jonathan Bearman's 1986 scholarly work, Qadhafi's Libya, there has been very little published about this
By Max Anderson
LONDON — A conference on "Economic Policies for Full Employment and Defence of the Welfare State" was held at Congress House on December 3. It followed a conference on "The Future of the Welfare State" in December 1993 which
Jim McIlroy continues a debate
In the ongoing debate in the pages of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly recently over the question of socialists, the ALP and the working class, it is important to distinguish two separate (but related) questions.
First is
36-hour shifts for doctors
By Tim E. Stewart
DARWIN — Doctors at the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) have expressed outrage at comments by NT health minister Mike Reed that shifts of 36 hours have no effect on patient care. These comments
The signing of the Oslo Declaration of Principles in September 1993 has posed a dilemma for Women in Black, the women's movement in Israel of Jewish and Palestinian women aimed at stopping the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In October VIVIENNE
KAREN WALD in Havana gives her impressions of last month's World Cuba Solidarity meeting.
Havana has been flooded with people from every continent, practically every country of the globe, for the past two weeks. They overflowed the Karl Marx
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