By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — The last hopes held by Russian coal miners in the regime of President Boris Yeltsin, historians may yet decide, expired on August 11 in a potato field south of the Ural Mountains city of Chelyabinsk. That was where some
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By Max Lane
On August 10, Indonesia's State Administrative Court upheld an appeal by Budiman Sujatmiko, as president of the People's Democratic Party (PRD), against a ministerial regulation banning the PRD and its affiliated mass organisations. The
Racism: the record of the Coalition and ALP
By James Vassilopoulos
Peter Beattie, the Queensland Labor premier, was quoted in the August 8 Courier-Mail responding to charges by Resistance that both major parties had carried out racist policies
Socialists and the Northcote by-election
By Maurice Sibelle
MELBOURNE — The Northcote state by-election on August 15 was the first electoral test for One Nation outside Queensland. They were resoundingly defeated, scoring only 5.7%, despite
Student left set for election campaign
By Keara Courtney
SYDNEY — The left — organised in a grouping called Activate! — is set for a strong showing in Students Representative Council elections at the University of Sydney in September.
By Jim Green
SYDNEY — The environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed new nuclear reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights was released on August 17. The EIS was prepared by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology
Old Indonesian communists still imprisoned
On August 17, justice minister Muladi announced the release from prison of 78-year-old Manan Effendi Tjokroharjo and 80-year-old Alexander Warouw. Both were Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) leaders in
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Fair go!
ACOSS and poor people are complaining about a GST on food. But what about multimillionaires? We haven't paid taxes on much of anything for years, and now the government is going to make us (or our companies) pay GST
Western Sydney anti-racism campaign
By Rupen Savoulian
PARRAMATTA — Despite driving rain, about 50 people representing many of western Sydney's migrant communities rallied here on August 22 against racism and the One Nation party. The rally
Life of Riley: It was I
Just the other day I went for a walk. It was my lunchtime. The sun was shining, and the cold wind which normally blows from the south had dropped. Under my arm I carried a ration of all the main food groups.
After walking
Tamils urge UN to probe alleged mass graves
Thousands of Tamils demonstrated outside the United Nations' European headquarters in Geneva on August 17 in support of a call for an international probe of alleged mass graves in Sri Lanka. Protesters
No alternative
"You give answers to the best of your intent and belief at the time, and if circumstances change, well, sometimes you have no alternative but to change." — Prime Menzies John Howard, about his decision as federal treasurer to
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