The loud complaints from the British Labour government and hysterical coverage by the international capitalist mass media have given undeserved credibility to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's populist claims that he suddenly intends to "resolve"
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Students occupy UQ Senate chambers
BY MATT LIVINGSTON
BRISBANE — Students at the University of Queensland occupied the University Senate chambers here on May 10 in protest at a proposed restructure of the Arts faculty until police were brought
Burmese protest arrests
SYDNEY — Burmese exiles and supporters held an emergency action outside NSW Parliament House on May 12 to protest against the Burmese military regime's arrest of U Aye Thar Aung, a leader of the Committee Representing
BY NORM DIXON
The International Union of Agricultural, Food and Hotel Workers — which has 330 affiliated unions in 124 countries — has pledged to wage "a very strong" campaign on behalf the more than 9000 workers, mainly women, thrown out of
LEBANON: Israel bombs again as deadline nears
RAMALLAH, Palestine — The Israeli government's latest round of bombings in Lebanon has raised concern about the possibility of a major war following the expected pullout of Israel's troops from
PALESTINE: Teachers resume strike
RAMALLAH, Palestine — Palestine's teachers resumed a long-running strike on May 2 following the Palestinian Authority's (PA) failure to fulfill promises for wage rises for 25,000 teachers working in public
Police attack Beverley blockade
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY & JIM GREEN
ADELAIDE — Protesters at the Beverley uranium mine in northern South Australia have vowed to continue their blockade of the site, despite violent assaults by police and private
Murdoch students fight course cuts
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — Students have reacted angrily to plans by Murdoch University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz to cut course and staff numbers. They have begun a series of protest actions in the lead up
Activist forced off union body
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — The Western Australian branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has thrown one of its most conscientious rank-and-file delegates off its delegation to the WA Trades and
Looking out: It diminishes all people
BY BRANDON ASTOR JONES
"True music ... must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time." — George Gershwin, 18981937 The achievements of bandmaster and composer John Philip Sousa
The 100,000 East Timorese refugees in camps in West Timor face daily hardship and terror from the pro-integration militia gangs which control or are active in many of the 200 camps. The repatriation of refugees to East Timor has slowed considerably.
Nothing but air
Psst! There's money to be made between us. Big money. Betwixt wherever thou art and me is air. It's colourless, normally odourless, weighs hardly anything and comes in such quantities that there's more than enough to go around
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