Armed police raided the headquarters of the Nava Sama Samaja Party (New Socialist Party) in Colombo on June 1, while the party's central committee was in session. About 30 policemen armed with automatic rifles, grenades and sub-machine guns broke
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By Ben Courtice
HOBART — Despite forcing the state government to the negotiating table on June 7, the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) has been unable to win any government concessions on their wage claim for public sector health
By Sarah Stephen
HOBART — The Tasmanian Greens-sponsored bill repealing 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of the Criminal Code relating to homosexual activity which the lower house passed two weeks ago will soon be debated by the Legislative Council. It is expected to be
NICO WAHID is a leader of Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia (SMID), a national progressive student organisation with 10 branches across Indonesia which was established in 1991. Nico is in Australia to attend the "East Timor: Its
By Norm Dixon
Oblivious to the terrible human rights record of the Indonesian dictatorship in occupied East Timor and West Papua, in Aceh and Indonesia proper, western governments continue to sell high tech weaponry to the Indonesian military.
By Norm Dixon
The brutal military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha is stepping up its harassment of labour movement activists. The British Committee of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) and the London-based Committee for a
Baker's DozenEnda KennyIndependently produced. PO Box 5018, Carlton 3053$30 (includes postage)Reviewed by Alex Bainbridge Enda Kenny is an Australian folk singer on the rise. Baker's Dozen, like its predecessor, 12 Songs, has been widely acclaimed in
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — If you hadn't had a pay packet in months, would you be holding off from protest action in order to avoid embarrassing the ruling authorities before the next elections? Probably not, and workers in Russia aren't doing so
By Michael Bramwell and Arun Pradhan
PERTH — Who is Resistance and what are they doing out west? Looking at the media coverage last year starts to give a (distorted) idea. According to Channel 9 news, Resistance was infiltrating Perth high
MrayaAbdel Ali SlimaniReal World through FestivalReviewed by Jenny Long This album is an interesting introduction to the current evolution of Algerian "pop"-rai — the 1980 and '90s version of the bawdy, working-class rai originating from the
More than 15,000 people participated in the founding of the new Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP) in Turkey on January 22. Ertugrul Kurkcu, a founding member of this party, recently visited Australia. He was interviewed for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly by Arty
TrainspottingDirected by Danny Boyle Starring Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Johnny Lee MillerReviewed by Natalie Woodlock
If you're looking for a happy ending, or for a moralising don't-do-drugs-they're-bad-for-you film, you shouldn't see
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