By Sonny Melencio
MANILA — On February 19, I went to the Las Pinas Post Office to claim a package sent by the Australian publishers of Links, an international theoretical journal for socialist renewal. When the person in charge opened the
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NT stolen generation in court
By Rebecca Meckelburg
DARWIN — On March 1, 1999, Cubillo and Gunner v the Commonwealth opened in the Federal Court in Darwin. These test cases represent the interests of some 700 stolen generation people in the
The truth about Lucas Heights
By Dr Jim Green
A spokesperson for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) confirmed on March 10 that there had been a series of "mishaps" at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor over the last
How democratic will Indonesia's election be?
By James Balowski
Last January, Indonesia's B.J. Habibie government announced a series of "electoral reforms" and set an election date of June 7. Since then, the establishment media has repeatedly
The new 'new middle class' — not!
By Jonathan Singer Federal ALP backbencher Mark Latham announced in a February 23 Australian Financial Review article that "wired workers" are "a constituency social democrats have long dreamt about. Now the
On April 10, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's MAX LANE spoke by telephone to East Timor resistance leader XANANA GUSMAO, who is still under house arrest in Jakarta. The telephone answered "Cipinang Prison" when I rang Xanana's house. Xanana had been imprisoned
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) is prosecuting Nike and three other garment manufacturers (Swiss Model, Apple and Motto) in the Federal Court for alleged breaches of the industry
Remodernising Russia: the role of the left
BORIS KAGARLITSKY interviews ANATOLY BARANOV. A left journalist, Baranov in 1996 came under attack from the authorities in the Moscow municipality, after an article he had written for the newspaper Pravda
By Keara Courtney
The Labor Party, in contrast to the Liberals, sometimes tries to portray itself as an anti-nuclear party as a way of winning votes from the anti-nuclear and environmental movements. However, the ALP's real record gives the lie to
The US experience
In the last 20 years, the prison population has quadrupled. There are 2 million people now behind bars, giving the US an incarceration rate five times that of other industrialised countries.
In the same period, spending on
Yugoslavia and history
By Michael Karadjis
Jerome Fitzgerald ("Write on", GLW #348) correctly points to the importance of history and the need to get our facts right. Unfortunately, he repeats some common views on the conflicts in Yugoslavia
Overproduction
Allen Myers' (rather esoteric) essay "Reinventing the Labor Party" (GLW #350) raised interesting points most of which I agreed with.
He could have developed further the aspect of making "Australia" more competitive. With
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