Workers in the phosphate mines in Western Sahara, occupied by Moroccan armed forces, went on strike on April 1 to protest against their bad working conditions. They are also demanding that Morocco stop plundering the wealth of their country. Their
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The Coalition government, with the help of the establishment media, has been focusing a great deal of attention on alleged "financial mismanagement" by ATSIC and other Aboriginal organisations. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly several people whether they thought
On April 24, the Australian Lebanese Solidarity Committee organised buses and cars to transport members of the Lebanese community in Sydney and Melbourne to a demonstration outside Parliament House. Some 250 people braved the four-hour trip to have
By David Kupfer
Promoters of peace continue to have an active presence at the gates outside the entrance to the Nevada Test Site 100 kilometres outside Las Vegas. While the 1993 Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB) agreement was signed by the US president,
Red Pepper (http://www.rednet.co.uk/redp epper) — Describing itself as a forum for the libertarian left, the electronic version of the British left magazine Red Pepper sets out to challenge "the monetarist New Right and the complacent liberal
By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY — Friends of the Earth has warned the federal government against disbanding the Commonwealth Environment Protection Agency, arguing that it would make environmental impact assessments of uranium and other projects under
Radical feminist conference
MELBOURNE — More than 200 women attended a conference on the Politics of Radical Feminism, sponsored by Deakin University, Melbourne University's Political Science Department and Spinifex Press, on April 20. Sheila
On April 2, US musician and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron was arrested for cocaine possession in Brisbane after flying in from London. On April 4 he pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court and was fined $2000 for 2.3 grams of cocaine, $1500
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — On April 19, a week before the 10th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, leaders of the G7 group of industrialised nations met in Moscow with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine for a two-day summit on nuclear
By Jorge Jorquera
On May Day we recall past victories and foreshadow future battles. This day we join with our comrades around the world to demonstrate our conviction that one day society will belong to all. We should remember the class-struggle
By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY — In a historic day for teacher unions, some 15,000 TAFE teachers, Teachers Federation and Independent Education Union members held a spirited rally outside Parliament House on April 23, the day of their 24-hour strike.
Great minds
"Gareth used to say that, and he was dead right." — Foreign minister Alexander Downer, on his predecessor Gareth Evans' frequent claim that there was no point in "haranguing" the Indonesian government over human rights abuses in
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