By Norm Dixon
MADRID — "In Spain we are living in the final part of a period that began in 1982, when the Socialist Party [PSOE] came into government. In the beginning, people had many illusions, many hopes for change. Those illusions are
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By Frank Eckardt
HO CHI MINH CITY — Nguyen Rithy Ti is one of a small but increasing number of street children here. He says he left his family two years ago after he had trouble getting along with the grandmother he was sent to live with when
Poll after poll reaffirms that Australians, by and large, want the remaining stands of old growth forests protected. The Herald-McNair poll, released on February 15, revealed that nearly half the population want export woodchipping phased out by the
In a surprise address televised on the evening of February 9, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon announced that he had issued orders to arrest several leaders of the rebel Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
Zedillo said
ADELAIDE — A cross campus network has been formed following a meeting of around 40 people on February 13. The CCN will be organising South Australia's involvement in the two National Days of Action, called by the No Fees Conference held in
World Orders, Old and New
By Noam Chomsky
Pluto Press, 1994 311 pp., $34.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"The roots of policy lie deep in firmly established institutional structures of power". Chomsky's latest expedition to uncover the
BORIS KAGARLITSKY is a former deputy in the Moscow City Soviet, a leading member of Russian Party of Labour and author of several books about socialism after the fall of the Stalinist regimes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. He writes
Government blamed
Twenty conservationists occupied the Eden office of the NSW Forestry Commission (State Forests) on February 15 to focus attention on those responsible for the decision to target high conservation value compartments which are
Well seasoned
By Brandon Astor Jones
"A woman is a woman until the day she dies ..." — Moms Mabley
For those who do not know, the late Moms Mabley was a consummate humorist and comedian. Her risque antics and one-liners will live
Child-care
By Kath Gelber
The federal government's decision to shelve the proposal to means test the child-care rebate was made much more on the basis of economics than on social justice. Economists warned the move would not bring a
By Mikael Karlsson
In international neo-Nazism today, there are two major positions, the "first position" and the "third position".
The first are political parties like National Front in Britain, Front National in France, the Republicans in
Rally defends health system
by Janet Parker
SYDNEY — One thousand pensioners, health and community workers from across NSW rallied here on February 11 against the dismantling of the public health system.
A lively contingent from the
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