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By Peter Boyle SYDNEY — An attempt by Marrickville Labor Mayor Barry Cotter to trick inner-city residents into supporting the ALP's plan to build a second airport at Badgerys Creek in outer-western Sydney backfired when demonstrators turned against
US pilots have been violating international law by entering Cuban airspace for many years. Since 1994, there have been at least nine incursions, according to Cuban authorities; after each, protest notes were lodged with the United States Interests
Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Buchanan runs alone After Pat Buchanan's
By Jill Hickson International Women's Day was started by women in the socialist movement. From the 1890s, the women's suffrage movement was influenced and built by women who were members of parties belonging to the Socialist (Second) International.
SYDNEY — The Nambundah Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture has begun. For a short season only, until March 17, Belvoir Street Theatre will host The 7 Stages of Grieving — a contemporary indigenous performance by
By Tony Iltis WOLLONGONG — The quiet village of Jamberoo, eight kilometres inland from Kiama, became the centre of some unusual goings-on after an article appeared in the February 21 Illawarra Mercury reporting that the Ku Klux Klan was planning a
JACKIE GRUNSELL is a member of Militant Labour in Sheffield. She was interviewed for Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly by WENDY ROBERTSON. Can you tell me about the situation with racism in Britain and the campaigns that Militant has been running against it? One of
The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) has reported that Milton Dabibi, general secretary of the ICEM-affiliated Nigerian oil and gas workers' union PENGASSAN, has been arrested in Lagos and is being
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Coal miners in Ukraine returned to work on February 16 after one of the hardest-fought strikes in the former Soviet republic in recent years. The resumption of work followed an agreement by the government to negotiate
Unconditionally In the highly acclaimed work The Color Purple, poet and novelist Alice Walker wrote, "... it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it". Today, I envision myself in a field somewhere