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Women's peace action set

Women's peace action set By Les Hazell Around 300 people are expected to attend the National Women's Peace Action and Festival at the Australian Defence Industries factory in the north-east Victorian town of Benalla April 14 to 16. The

Life of Riley: Adolf Hitler deserves a smile

Adolf Hitler deserves a smile By Dave Riley Adolf Hitler was no arsehole. It's true. He had a sweet tooth, was fond of eggs and neither smoked cigarettes nor drank alcohol. He loved Wagnerian opera and refused to eat meat. So what's a

Government evades action on greenhouse

By Pip Hinman Conservationists have condemned the federal government for failing to come up with a concrete greenhouse gas reduction strategy before an international conference on climate change in Berlin beginning on March 27. Recent

Filipinos protest over plight of overseas workers

By Sonny Melencio Protests are escalating across the Philippines over the hanging of Flor Contemplacion, 42, overseas worker, in Singapore on March 17. The body of Contemplacion was flown to her home town, San Pablo City, where it lay in wake

Are transnationals taking over the world?

By Kim Moody If someone told you that the leaders of 125 nations had agreed to let 1000 or so transnational corporations take over the world and legitimise forced child labour, industrial home work, sweat shops and maybe even the "foreign

Write on: letters to the editor

Hemingway Phil Shannon's review of James R. Mellow's Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (GLW #180 22/3/95) is an unwitting regurgitation of the strategy of the reactionary literati to try yet again to defame their old enemy: Ernest