Using the n-word
In an article in the September 28 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, entitled "Racial slur case should caution all teachers", an overly sympathetic Mary MacDonald reports that: "The story of a [W]hite Cobb County teacher disciplined
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Workers demonstrate against thugs
On November 6, around 250 demonstrators from the Solidarity Front demonstrated outside the East Java provincial parliament in Surabaya. They were protesting against the stabbing of a fellow worker by hired thugs
BY MERRILYN TREASURE
SYDNEY — Having won liberation after 25 years of struggle, the East Timorese people's first challenge is to defend their right to freedom, East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao told 500 people at a "Peace and Justice in East
The UN General Assembly on November 9 overwhelmingly passed a resolution urging that all countries refuse to comply with the 38-year-long US blockade of Cuba. It passed with the support 167 votes, with only the US, Israel and the Marshall Islands
BY CLAIRE FLYNNAND KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The "Grim Reaper" and a paper mache "loan shark" were among the 70 people at a protest, organised by the Adelaide S11 Alliance, outside an address by the managing director of the World Bank, Dr Mamphele
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The trials of refugees charged with involvement in August's protest at the Woomera detention camp will begin on December 18, and continue daily through January. The charged refugees are being held in the Adelaide Remand
BY GIANNI RIGACCI
It is incontestable that the first half of the 1970s represented a cleavage in the evolution of the world economy: we then entered into what some economists defined as a long wave of stagnation. Nonetheless, since about the
A SHORT STORY BY RACHEL LAREDNI
Watch them travel in metallic wombs, speeding along veins of the city weaving their way through metal and concrete into the heart of the grand Mecca of capitalism. Tidy men of smooth shaven faces absorbed in the lies
Seizing on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) president Chen Shui-bian's pledge to stop the construction of Taiwan's controversial fourth nuclear power plant, the former ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party is leading a major drive to unseat Chen from the
BY JIM MCILROY
DILI — Street stallholders selling food and drinks on the seafront near the centre of the city here faced an attempt to forcibly evict them from their established positions on November 3, as the United Nations Transitional
Bougainville struggle marked
CANBERRA — An enjoyable and informative "politics in the pub" was held at the Old Canberra Inn on November 5 (Guy Fawkes Day) to commemorate the 1989 blowing up of pylons carrying power lines to the Bougainville
BY JIM GREEN
The federal Coalition government is planning a wrecking operation at an international climate change conference at the Hague from November 13-24.
The conference — formally known as the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP6) to the
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