How to Save the Earth — First in a six-part documentary series on preserving tropical rainforests, stopping global warming, feeding the world, cutting air pollution and slowing down the rate of consumption of the world's resources. SBS, Sunday,
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Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails began an open-ended hunger strike on June 15. The Prisoners' Central Committee in Jneid Prison announced that the goal is the immediate release of the roughly 5400 Palestinian political prisoners who continue to
East Timor 'resistance is strong'
Recent arrivals from East Timor, who must remain anonymous, have told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly that the Indonesian occupation forces are stepping up their campaign of detention and terror, aimed specifically at young
The Revolution Deferred: The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa
By Martin J. Murray
Verso, London, 1994. 270pp., $39.95 pb
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
Martin Murray has written arguably the best book yet about the complicated series
CPSU delegates fight budget cuts
By Peter Webster
From July 3, many DSS workplaces around Australia will be "downsized". The federal government has slashed the budget for 1995-96 and, despite concerns raised by members, the national and
No aberration
The controversy over the appointment of Lieutenant General Herman Mantiri as Indonesia's ambassador to Australia may be a little confusing to the Suharto dictatorship. After all, Mantiri has only carried through policies on East
Mt Isa workers vote on log of claims
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — A mass meeting of unionists at the giant MIM mine at Mt Isa will be held on June 27 to vote on a draft log of claims, including a 16% wage rise, free annual air fares to
A response to Reihana Mohideen by Irwin Silber
The narrow vision informing Reihana Mohideen's comment on my book, Socialism: What Went Wrong? (91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, April 12) came as something of a surprise to me. From various reports I had been led to
Community radio rally
ADELAIDE — On June 21, local bands, students, political activists, migrant groups and many others made up a 400-strong crowd on the steps of Parliament House to show their support for community radio. Annual funding of
During a panel discussion entitled "Women, Race and Class" held at the Marxist Educational Conference in Sydney over Easter, KAREN FLETCHER, feminist activist and former GLW journalist, took up the issue of where feminism is at in the 1990s, and what
[This is the slightly abridged text of a talk given at a public forum in Sydney on June 6. The author, JOHN PERCY, is national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party.]
The campaign against the Vietnam War here developed in similar ways to
A unique conference
In the first week of July, hundreds of young women will be gathering again at the Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA) conference in Melbourne. The conference has been held annually since 1987, when an enterprising
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