By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — On March 14, students attempting to establish a Macedonian club at Melbourne University were harassed and forced to pack up their stall by members of the Hellenic club. The three women staffing the Macedonian stall
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The State of HumanityJulian L. Simon (ed.)Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1995Distributed in Australia by Allen & Unwin608 pp., $49.95 (pb)Reviewed by Peter Montague The recent outpouring of hefty "feel good" books has not let up.
By Norm Dixon
The alliance between the African National Congress, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party is under pressure, National Union of Mineworkers president James Motlatsi indicated on March 15.
'Grassroots organising and direct action'
STEPHEN SPENCE is the South Australian convener of the Greens, state secretary of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance and a member of the United Trades and Labour Council executive. He was
By Eva Cheng
Over the last few weeks, several peaceful demonstrations and solidarity actions in Nepal and Thailand against human rights violations in China were broken up by police, and demonstrators were arrested. According to Amnesty
Pitiless merchants
"I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant." — Albert Camus
The Georgia Diagnostics and Classification Centre confines more
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.
Mad cow disease in royal family
SYDNEY — As a part of the Democratic Socialism '96 conference, Resistance has initiated a pre-conference action around the demand "No uranium mining! No mines in Kakadu! No uranium sales to Indonesia!". The action, to be held outside the offices of
Some 2500 students rallied and marched in opposition to the Victorian government's Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) legislation on March 28. The rally was part of a national day of action demanding student control of student affairs. Victoria and WA
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Queensland Coalition government has threatened to scrap a 12-week paid maternity leave agreement for state public servants, claiming the deal would blow a $50 million hole in the state budget. Implementation of the
The following is an excerpt from a briefing paper prepared by JOHN HALLAM of Friends of the Earth, Sydney, in 1994. It provides useful background information to Energy Resources Australia's current push to begin uranium mining at Jabiluka in Kakadu
Chomsky's PoliticsBy Milan RaiVerso, 1995. 225 pp., $95 (hb), $34.95 (pb)Reviewed by Alex Bainbridge Noam Chomsky is one of the most popular figures to whom a broad range of radicals look for contemporary political analysis. Large audiences at his
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