By Sean Malloy Ross Debrecery is a member of New Zealand's NewLabour Party and a student at Otago University in Dunedin. He will be attending Resistance's 21st national conference in Melbourne July 4-6. Debrecery talked to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly
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By David Robie AUCKLAND — Barely six months ago, maverick Maori politician Winston Peters was by far the government's most popular cabinet minister and was being tipped as a future prime minister. Today he is fighting for his political life.
Publication schedule Because many of the people involved in the production and distribution of Â鶹´«Ã½ will be attending the Resistance conference in Melbourne, we are not publishing a paper next week. The next issue will be the one dated July
Anti-gay law in Nicaragua On June 11, Nicaragua's National Assembly passed Latin America's most repressive sodomy law. The Sandinista bloc opposed the law but was outvoted by the right-wing forces of the pro-US UNO coalition. By 43 votes to
Pride This week lesbians and gays celebrate Stonewall, a milestone in the struggle for gay liberation. In Brisbane the occasion is marked by the Pride Festival, a series of political, social and cultural events for lesbians, gays and everyone
Brewery protests continue By Leon Harrison PERTH — The WA Labor government is in bed with Multiplex boss John Roberts over the development of the old Swan brewery site, well-known environmentalist and former union leader Jack Mundey told a
By Linda Paric MELBOURNE — Maria Puric, a middle-aged woman, lost everything she owned, as well as family and friends, in the town that was once Vukovar. Vida and Mato Vulic are both in their 60s; everything they owned was left in the town of
Top secret "One doesn't feel that the right place for Miss Percy is in prison, but there is a limit and she is at the end of our tether." — British magistrate L.P. Stephen imposing a six-month suspended sentence on Lindis Percy, a peace
By Claire W. Gilbert The oil well fires in Kuwait are out. But there remain an untold number of wells which are still spewing raw crude onto the desert floor into lakes, pools and rivers of oil. There are 200 lakes of oil, from as large as
The African National Congress on June 21 suspended negotiations with the white minority government following the massacre of 39 people in Boipatong township. The Boipatong killings appear as part of a pattern of government-sponsored violence,
Attacks by British army thugs on the small nationalist town of Coalisland in County Tyrone have caused political reverberations in London and Dublin. First the British army announced that an officer in the infamous Parachute Regiment had been
By Sean Lennon MELBOURNE — As Premier Joan Kirner held her mini-summit on youth unemployment on June 25, a crowd of around 200 people demonstrated on the steps of the state parliament. The rally, organised by an umbrella group called CRICIS
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