Cuban representative in Ireland
Cuban government official Javier Dominguez Martines visited Ireland during Central America Week as a guest of the organisers, which included the Cuban Support Group, and met with a delegation from Sinn Fein.
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Filipina union leader tours Brisbane
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Terasita Carpio, a leader of the Philippines trade union movement, addressed several meetings and met union members during her recent tour here.
Carpio presented a public
Following the resignation of all the bourgeois opposition parties from the national parliament of Bangladesh in 1994, the country has plunged into a constitutional crisis. As well, large general strikes have destabilised the economy. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
There are an estimated 1 million industrial vessels fishing the world's oceans. Many of these ships are highly efficient in the ways that they find, catch and process fish. They are also wasteful of marine resources, and each year dump millions of
Israel steps up land grab
By Jennifer Thompson
Israel's announcement of the confiscation of 53 hectares of Palestinian-owned land in East Jerusalem, to build a new Israeli settlement and a police headquarters, is the biggest single land
Foul play
The Sydney Morning Herald of April 20 published a report titled, "The Day the Balmain Boys Beat the Reds", by Brad Norrington on the book launch of The Forging of Votes by Dr Amy McGrath. He eagerly quotes the book's author when she
Before Sunrise
Reviewed by Jane Schneider
Before Sunrise is at best a charming love story exploring the bittersweet character-forming aspects of fly by night affairs. A couple meet on a train and spend an evening in Vienna together. What
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — Despite the biggest anti-government rallies since Labor came to power in Queensland, the controversial South Coast Motorway is to be built. Expressions of interest will be sought from private firms to design,
Vote for Last Chance
"This is now the last chance left to me." — Former Tasmanian premier Robin Gray, standing for Liberal preselection for the Senate after failing to gain preselection for the lower house seats of Braddon and Bass.
May 5 was the 14th anniversary of the death of Irish Republican Army Volunteer Bobby Sands, who died in the hospital wing of Long Kesh (Maze) Prison after a 66-day hunger strike. Sands, who had won election to the British parliament while in prison,
Between December 1994 and February 1995, a dozen members of the West Australian South Africa Solidarity (WASAS) group visited South Africa on a work and study brigade. The group ran workshops with grassroots organisations struggling to deal with
Lockerbie: The Maltese Double Cross
Produced and directed by Allan Francovich
The Cutting Edge, SBS TV, Tuesday, May 16, 8.30pm (8 in SA)
Previewed by Peter Boyle
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over the village of
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