Thousands march on International Women's Day Thousands of women and men turned out for International Women's Day marches and rallies around Australia this year.
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Newcastle holds People's Inquiry
By Geoff Payne
NEWCASTLE "Madre, they will kill us." These words have stayed with Sister Carmel Hanson, even since she returned from East Timor last year. She feels that her assurances to people there that the
Cuba's battle for socialist renewal
By Rafael Hernandez
HAVANA — "What will happen when Castro dies?" That's the inevitable question I'm invited to talk about on Cuba overseas. Curiously enough, I also get a repeated question from the most
The death of reconciliation?
By Sue Boland
It's a wonder that Prime Minister John Howard didn't choke on his insincerity on the night of the Coalition government's re-election in 1998 when he said, "I want to commit myself very genuinely to the
Write On: Letters to the editor
Ireland
In response to those rebuttals of my letter (GLW #392) from Keara Courtney (GLW #393) and Tom McEvoy (GLW #394), their letters make not one mention of hope or peace for the people.
They both deny or
ADELAIDE — Three people were arrested on March 3 during a peaceful protest at the Beverley uranium mine in the far north of South Australia.
New anti-terrorism bill targets dissent
By Alec Smart
LONDON — Legislation allowing police increased powers of arrest and detention is being fast-tracked through the British parliament. "Anti-terrorist" laws, rehearsed and fine-tuned in
By Allen Myers
PHNOM PENH — Hundreds of women and men gathered in the main square here on March 8 to mark International Women's Day. The activities were organised by the OXFAM organisations and their Cambodian counterparts. The program extended
How PR buries the environment
Global Spin: the corporate assault on environmentalismRevised editionBy Sharon BederScribe Publications336 pp., $29.95 (pb) Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful
By Dave Holmes
WOLLONGONG — Industrial pollution, in all its many forms and with
all its attendant consequences, has long been a fact of life in the Illawarra.
And nowhere are the effects more pronounced than in the suburbs near BHP's
Students at Birzeit University celebrated the unconditional release of those imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the widespread crackdown that followed the February 26 demonstration against France's Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
Inner-city bypass condemned
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — "The ALP-controlled Brisbane City Council's planned inner-city bypass will cut a swathe through beautiful Victoria Park and spew traffic out into suburban streets already overloaded in
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