By Jean-Pierre Lemaire
I would like to make some comments on the recent strike movement, then try to draw some political conclusions that are valid for the present and the future. First, we have witnessed the first phase of a movement that is
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By Max Lane
Dr George Aditjondro was the first Indonesian senior academic to speak out against the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. He has also been an outspoken advocate of democratic reform and environmental policy in Indonesia. As a
On March 5, the US Senate voted 74 to 22 in favour of a final compromise version of legislation tightening the US embargo on Cuba and punishing other countries that trade with Cuba. The US House of Representatives passed the package, known as the
Peter Wright
Woodchipping: what went wrong?
In a tragic irony, the biggest environment campaign for many years resulted in the federal government dumping its policy to phase out export woodchipping by 2000, and replacing it with a plan to
An international appeal against the policies of the Bretton Woods institutions has already gathered endorsers from more than 50 countries on all continents. Organisers hope to present these signatures, and thousands more, to the G7 summit in Lyons in
12 MonkeysDirected by Terry GilliamStarring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad PittReviewed by Norm Dixon You expect, when entering a cinema to watch the latest Hollywood mega-sci-fi-post-apocalypse-time-travel-killer-disease thriller, to leave
By Beavis Marks
BRISBANE — As part of its "law and order" drive, the National/Liberal government has declared plans to amend the Juvenile Justice Act to give the courts more power to sentence young people. The amendments include: introducing
Class and Class Conflict in AustraliaRick Kuhn and Tom O'Lincoln (ed)Longman, 1996. 176 pp. $24.95Reviewed by Phil Shannon As the low farce of the federal election ground on, there was talk by all mainstream parties of workers — would they or
By Gerry Harant
GLW is to be congratulated for initiating a critical examination of the history of the Australian Communist Party; it is to be hoped that it will continue. Instead of treating the subject as dead history, political activists will
By Norm Dixon
Thousands of West Papuan villagers have rebelled against the giant Freeport gold and copper mine in the Indonesian-occupied western half of New Guinea. The uprising caused extensive damage to the mine and forced its closure for
1988By Andrew McGahanAllen and Unwin, 314 pp., $14.95Reviewed by Dave Riley I like Andrew McGahan's work. It's frank and genuinely shocking. This, his second published novel, leads into the first, raise, which impressed me when I read it last year.
By Sujatha Fernandes
CALCUTTA — After six years of talks between Nepal and Bhutan over the fate of 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin living in camps in eastern Nepal, the Bhutanese refugees have decided to take matters into their own hands.
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