Just Desserts
By Jane White
PERTH — The nicely named "Just Desserts", held here on April 22, was Western Australian Campaign Against Racial Exploitation's final push for the South African Election fund.
Hosted by Sheila Suttner, we
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By Angie Hartwig
PERTH — An ANC Victory Party is being organised here on May 21, after the inauguration of President Nelson Mandela on May 11. The celebration is being organised by WA Campaign Against Racial Exploitation and Western
De Klerk's 'last gasp'
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — President F.W. de Klerk's decision to defy the directive of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and the Independent Electoral Commission that all prisoners be granted the right to
By Rachel Evans
and Ray Fulcher
MANILA — "Women in the Philippines suffer discriminatory hiring practices, unequal wages, sexual harassment in the home, factories and streets as well as the double burden of housekeeping" stated Noime
Half the machine?
A campaign to achieve parliamentary gender equity in the ALP was launched at a conference of Labor women in Perth last November. Since that time, women ALPers have been campaigning to pass resolutions requiring 40% of Labor
Toxic Park Closed
By Jon Land
SYDNEY — A park adjacent to the Olympic 2000 site has been fenced off and closed because of toxic chemicals found in the soil and ground water. A study commissioned by Auburn Council, released on April 18,
By Frank Enright
There are those who insinuate themselves into the progressive movements to gain a hearing for reactionary agendas. One such group recently unmasked is Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI). Their point of entry into the
Weight
Rollins Band
BMG Records
Reviewed by Jon Land
The Rollins Band's latest album has been the biggest mover on the US university, alternative and metal radio play lists since release in mid-April. Formed in the mid-'80s out of seminal
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Just days before South Africans went to the polls, abortion became a prominent issue. An emotive debate erupted, with the media giving high profile coverage to the views of local and US fundamentalist Christian
Apartheid is dead. In South Africa's first democratic elections, the people have voted overwhelmingly for a process of radical change.
The elections register and consolidate the political transformation already won through mass action by
Mass arrest of miners
More than 300 striking miners at Placer Pacific's Porgera mine site in the Papua New Guinea highlands were arrested after they began an indefinite strike on April 14. The workers were later released because the local police
By Norm Dixon
Extreme racial oppression in South Africa was a product of its brutal colonisation beginning in the mid-1600s, and this became the basis of the growth of South African capitalism.
Apartheid is much more than a system of
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