Catherine Brown

  • Europe's slump fuels political crisis

    LONDON — 1992 marked the closing of one chapter and the opening of another in European politics. The former, developing from the early '80s, reached its pinnacle in 1989 with the collapse of walls and

  • Growing role for women in Irish republican movement

    DUBLIN — Just before Ireland voted on the three-part abortion referendum on November 25, Anne Speed, a trade union organiser and Sinn Fein candidate in the previous election, talked to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly about the last 10

  • Irish voters reject 'pro-life' referendum

    DUBLIN — "The main reason for this referendum is because the government does not accept that suicidal tendency is a reason for abortion", explained the then Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds. On November 26, not only was

  • Anger over French blood trial

    Anger over French blood trialFrench haemophiliac groups, relatives of the victims and ACT UP, the anti-AIDS action group, have denounced as inadequate the sentence of three state-employed doctors, who have been convicted

  • Germany: Everyone's 'green', but problems mount

    With more than 200,000 members, Germany's Friends of the Earth is one of the largest of any country. Arno Behlau, its international spokesperson, talked with 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly in Bonn about issues facing the German environmental

  • 50,000 march in London

    50,000 march in LondonLONDON — Around Hyde Park on October 21, the many dozens of coaches lining the streets were an indication of the distances many protesters against the pit closures had travelled to be there. Others

  • Germans divided over who will pay

    The German economy is in deep trouble, and so also is Chancellor Helmet Kohl's coalition government. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly recently spoke to Angela Klein, a leader of the United Socialist Party (VSP), and Andrea Lederer, a member

  • Greek workers strike against austerity

    An Athens football stadium was packed to capacity with 40,000 people on October 6, and another 20,000 gathered outside, all in solidarity with bus workers, who have been on strike since July. The strikers, who have been

  • German parties plan to ban refugees

    On September 17 Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government announced plans to deport thousands of Romanians, many of them victims of the recent neo-Nazi attacks on refugee hostels in eastern Germany. Since the racist riots

  • Maastricht on the ropes after victory

    With almost one out of two voters rejecting the Maastricht Treaty, the "yes" vote in the September 20 French referendum poses more questions than answers for a future united Europe. When Denmark said "no" to the treaty on

  • The crash of the pound

    LONDON — Even by its own criteria, the British Tory government is an economic failure. Talkback radio programs have been inundated with questions from a British public still in a daze from four changes to

  • Arafat, Tambo speak at conference on Palestine

    GENEVA — "The government of Israel is continuing its predecessor's iron-fist policy of oppression, repression and terrorism against our people", Yasser Arafat, chair of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, told activists