By Helen Leonard The Women's Electoral Lobby is celebrating 20 years of work and achievement on behalf of Australian women. WEL burst onto the national political scene in 1972. Its founders were women inspired by the women's liberation
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By Tom Flanagan HOBART — An alliance of 13 powerful business groups has called for a vote for either the Liberal or Labor parties in the February 1 state election. The alliance, which includes the state Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of
By Emlyn Jones Jaime Tadeo, "Ka Jimmy", is the chairperson of the KMP, the peasant movement of the Philippines. He is currently in prison, serving an 18-year sentence on frame-up charges. In 1979 Tadeo resigned from his job in the National
By Steve Painter Since 1984, the New Zealand economy, already staggering because of its loss of traditional export markets for primary products, has been brought to its knees by New Right policies similar to those proposed in the Australian
By Craig Cormick In the approximately four minutes it takes to read this article, 100 children will have died from preventable diseases. Are the deaths of 13 million children each year tolerable as we enter our much heralded, and yet
Greenpeace pursues whaler The Greenpeace vessel Greenpeace is pursuing the mother ship of the four-vessel Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic Ocean. Greenpeace activists intend to disrupt the fleet's whaling activities, supposedly carried
By Melanie Sjoberg MELBOURNE — The November 12 Dili massacre provided the Australian government with an opportunity to correct its policy, Fretilin UN representative Jose Ramos Horta told a public meeting here on January 19. But the
By John C. Brittain PORT-AU-PRINCE — "There will be no real Christmas here this year", says the owner of an elegant hilltop hotel with a scenic view of this Haitian capital. The innkeeper is speaking of the unstable political and economic
US gay and lesbian solidarity with Cuba By Kim Spurway "The struggle for lesbian and gay liberation must be a struggle against racism, poverty and sexism. It is a struggle for equal access to health care, education and human rights. I believe
By Sean Malloy After months of discussion and preparation, on December 1 a group of new and alternative parties formed a red-green Alliance that could become New Zealand's next government if early opinion poll results hold up. "The seeds of
JFK Directed by Oliver Stone With Kevin Costner Reviewed by Nigel D'Souza Anyone who was conscious on November 22 1963, is likely to possess memories of that day when John Kennedy was assassinated. For me, three days short of my sixth
By Phil Shannon The announcement of the world's first sustained nuclear fusion reaction in England on November 10 was greeted with silence on the left, but it is worth asking whether it deserves our plaudits or placards. Nuclear fission
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