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Youth speak up in Wollongong

By Sue Humphries WOLLONGONG — Wollongong Resistance had no hesitation in recommending that young people vote for Greens or the Democratic Socialists in last weekend's federal election. This recommendation was announced at a

Wrongly convicted

Tim Anderson Wrongly convicted Gregory Brown, convicted of killing six people in the 1989 "backpackers fire", is innocent. He was wrongly convicted in a juryless trial before Justice Peter McInerney late last year, and will be sentenced

Right wing wages war on Nicaraguan cooperatives

By Stephen Marks MANAGUA — The names of Juan Dávila, Xiomara and Alma Nubia will never be registered in any US State Department "Human Rights Reports". Juan Dávila was shot in the chest by recontras when he answered a late night

Vietnamese statement

Vietnamese statement The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry replied promptly to the charges regarding the three former Vietnamese soldiers. A spokesperson said that "UNTAC itself and Prince Norodom Sihanouk himself have more than once confirmed

Special street theatre

MELBOURNE — Young people lined up to "limbo" under a symbolic "poverty line" at a special street theatre organised by the youth group Resistance in Bourke Street Mall on March 10. Paul Keating and John Hewson, in full electioneering mode, kept

Write on

IRA In response to Norman Taylor's letter (GLW Feb 24), I find it incomprehensible that someone could say National Action and the IRA are similar with their "policy of unending violence". It is obvious that Mr. Taylor has no knowledge of

Flaws in the film of Malcolm X

By Max Lane A recent Newsweek poll found that 84% of African-Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 consider Malcolm X a hero. Spike Lee's film is obviously meant to reinforce this view. In too many ways, however, it fails. Most radical

Russia's environmental problems worsen

By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — When perestroika began, the environmental movement in the USSR grew strongly. But the movement has tended to die away as anger at the damage wrought by the old order was swamped by the difficulties of surviving

Indonesia defeated over East Timor at UN

Indonesia defeated over East Timor at UN The Indonesian government suffered a major defeat at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 11, as 22 member states voted in favour of a resolution on East Timor. The

Steinbeck done well

Of Mice and Men Screenplay by Horton Foote Based on the novel John Steinbeck Directed by Gary Sinese With Gary Sinese, John Malkovich, Sherilyn Fenn, Ray Walston, Joe Morton At Greater Union Pitt St, Sydney Reviewed by Max Lane A

Women in prison

Women in prison Convicted SBS documentary in the Cutting Edge series Tuesday, March 23, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide) Reviewed by Kath Tucker "When you imprison a woman, you imprison her children." Eighty per cent of women in

Youth report 'misses the mark'

Youth report 'misses the mark' By Sean Malloy A recent report titled A Living Wage by the Australian Youth Policy and Action Coalition and State and Territory Youth Affairs Councils and Networks (STYACN) has angered young people in its