By John Hallam
Eight years after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the governments of Ukraine and Russia have opted to proceed with ambitious nuclear programs that they can't afford.
While studies done by the International
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American Music and Popular Culture — Rock 'n' Roll — A folk art born and living out its entire existence at the height of commercialism, rock 'n' roll is the first popular music idiom where the intended market is defined by age rather than race
New Wollongong Resistance Centre
By Felicity King
WOLLONGONG — The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance opened a new centre on Saturday, April 30, with a lunch and drinks after the May Day march.
An informal occasion, the
Another beginning
"It is not all that we wanted, but it is a beginning", were the words chosen by senior Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath to describe the signing of the accord between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel on May 4
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — When the election results were at last announced on May 6, the African National Congress had swept in with 62.7% of the national vote and 252 seats in the 400-seat national assembly. The ANC won landslide victories
ROBYN MARSHALL was one of a party of five Australian women who acted as observers of the Salvadoran elections in March at the invitation of the FMLN. Here she describes some of their experiences.
We're not quite sure how we ended up in Ruben
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in natural history
By Stephen Jay Gould
Penguin, 1994. 479 pp., $16.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Stephen Jay Gould's latest book continues his engrossing series of essays on evolutionary biology —
By Peter McAllister
NIMBIN — More than 200 people attended the Beyond Prohibition conference held in conjunction with the annual Harvest Ball here on April 30. The consensus emerging from the conference was to push for a national campaign
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
Directed by Nick Broomfield
Ronin Films
Now screening at Valhalla, Sydney and Melbourne
Reviewed by Jon Land
This film traces the life of Aileen Wuornos, a 35-year-old sex worker who killed
Greens oppose 'employment merry-go-round'
Greens (WA) Senator Dee Margetts, commenting on the release of the government's white paper, Working Nation, claimed it will merely create a nation of working poor.
"To quote the prime minister, 'he
By Mary Merkenich
BOCHUM — A thousand people on April 23 took to the streets here, in the heart of Germany's Ruhr Valley. The demonstrators demanded no deportations of Kurds, an end to the criminalisation of Kurds by the Bonn government,
Tens of thousands of people are expected to demonstrate in Paris on the weekend of May 28-29 to demand a 35-hour week with no loss of pay. Demonstrations and meetings will be the culmination of five separate marches from different parts of France
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