Protest planned against nuclear ship visit
By Alex Bainbridge and Jeroen Benes
HOBART — Activists and progressive groups have vowed to protest against two US nuclear warships due to arrive here in the next month. The first ship is scheduled to
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Putting people first
Speaking to the UN General Assembly's third commission on social, humanitarian and cultural issues in early October, Rodolfo Reyes, second secretary of Cuba's UN mission, said Cuba will continue to be a society that puts its
By Francesca Davis
High school students in France, angry about large class sizes, badly maintained buildings, too few teachers and shortages of resources, have taken to the streets in their hundreds of thousands. Student strikes began in Nimes, in
Organising Reclaim the Night
Melbourne
By Lynne Kennedy
Organising this year's 1998 Reclaim the Night has had its share of problems and successes. The fact that we have been unsuccessful in all our requests for funding highlights, yet again,
By Renfrey Clarke
KEMEROVO, Russia — Gennady Filatyev, director of the Volkov coalmine near this city in the Kuzbass industrial region of Siberia, is a bull of a man. When he leans across a lectern, gesticulating as he makes a point, he could be
Coober Pedy says no to nuclear dump
By Lyn Hovey
The people of Coober Pedy, in outback South Australia, are organising to oppose the National Radioactive Waste Repository (i.e. dump) proposed for Billa Kalina. A public meeting was organised in
Dorf workers push company back
By Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — After two weeks of being locked out, about 200 workers at the Email Dorf plant in Melbourne's south-east have returned to work after the company accepted most of the workers' demands.
By Norm Dixon
By any calculation, the October 17 oil pipeline disaster in southern Nigerian rates amongst the worst industrial accidents ever. As of October 21, the death toll was estimated at 700; it is expected to climb above 1000. The western
By Emma Murphy and Sarah Lantz
MELBOURNE — There has been widespread opposition to a decision to exclude transgender women from the NOWSA (Network of Women Students Australia) collective. This opposition has come from numerous alternative
By Peter Boyle
The Howard government returns with very little political legitimacy. That's why PM John Howard is now desperately trying to refashion his image. He's changed! No more Mr Apologist-For-Pauline-Hanson. Now (after he has nearly
Indonesian regime suffers further setbacks
By Max Lane
The Habibie-Wiranto regime suffered another major setback on October 22 when the parliament finally passed a law on "public expression of opinion". The final version of the law undid
Pulling strings
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The poet's heart, it is said, must find and be in agreement with the reader's intellect." — Irving Elmer Bell From time to time, as a new feature in this space, I will compose a poem in the hope of
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