By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Back in 1990 and 1991, the suggestion would have seemed absurd. Five years into the future, politicians wanting to rise to high office would no longer be proclaiming themselves "democrats" and pronouncing anathemas on
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Women, work and choice
Bettina Arndt has used the excuse of "debate" to launch an attack on feminism and to gloss over the social pressures that impose the bulk of domestic labour on women. In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 9,
By Stephen Marks
SANTO DOMINGO — Four left-wing parties in the Dominican Republic united to form a new party called the Revolutionary Forces (FR) on February 27. Revolutionary politics have a strong tradition in the Dominican Republic. This unity
Alliance offers New Zealanders a choice
A national conference of the New Zealand Alliance was held at Easter in Wellington. Here we reprint major excerpts from Alliance leader JIM ANDERTON's speech to the conference. We joined the Alliance to
By Lisa Macdonald
The bosses' media have been having a field day since the election of the Coalition federal government. Whether the target is the unemployed or Aboriginal people, the formula is much the same: set up a soft target with a story
Higglety Biggledy CabaretBy ThrottleDispensary Cafe, 84 Enmore Rd, EnmoreWednesday nights at 8pm until May 8Reviewed by Brendan Doyle After performing at the '95 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the recent Adelaide Fringe, Throttle returns to Sydney for
By Tom Flanagan
Four major environment organisations have called for an inquiry into uranium mining in Kakadu National Park. The Australian Conservation, the Wilderness Society, Friends of the Earth and the Environment Centre of the Northern
By Geoff Spencer
GEELONG — Wool scourers at E.P. Robinson are entering their eighth week on strike with no resolution to the dispute in sight. An unfair dismissal case in the Industrial Relations Commission on April 18 was inconclusive and
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — A March 27 meeting here of 301 factory-based union presidents, representing 76,634 union members, launched a campaign to increase the take-home pay of workers by demanding the scrapping of income tax on workers. The
By Naazreen Angullia
PERTH — Thirty Curtin University students attended a Resistance public meeting on the theme "Life under the Liberals" on March 28. The meeting was called in support of a National Day of Action against voluntary student
We need your help
"I would like to open up a place where people who are hungry could come and got a shower, a change of clothes and a good hot meal." — The Reverend R.B. Cottonreader
Few things in this life can be more demoralising than
Dr GEORGE ADITJONDRO was the first Indonesian senior academic to speak out against the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, and is an outspoken advocate of democratic reform and environmental policy in Indonesia. In exile, he now teaches at the
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