Labour Party Pakistan leaders hunted by police
By Farooq Sulehria
LAHORE — Police and soldiers raided the houses and offices of Labour Party Pakistan leaders on the night of March 22. The raids occurred just hours after an LPP-organised
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Medical care for profit: a hazard to public health
By Jonathan Singer
Public money is being spent to advertise the government's latest weapon in its drive to privatise health care. From July 1, the Lifetime Health Cover policy will allow private
Makes you think
Word has it that sole parents and the disabled could be required to make themselves more employable or forfeit their full payment under the federal government's next round of mutual obligation initiatives. We are supposed to be
NOWSA 2000
From July 10-14, Flinders University in Adelaide will host the Network of Women Students Australia conference. NOWSA plays an important role in facilitating campaigns, providing a national forum for discussion, helping campus feminists
Don't forget!
Next week, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly will produce its 400th issue. This is a special occasion for all those people in Australia and overseas who have, during the last nine years, contributed articles, photographs, cartoons, funds, and their
By Allen Myers
PHNOM PENH — Negotiations between the Cambodian government and United Nations representatives, spread over five days, on arrangements for a trial of former leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-79 ended without formal
Suicide seeds on the fast track
"We've continued right on with work on the Technology Protection System [Terminator]. We never really slowed down. We're on target, moving ahead to commercialize it. We never really backed off." — Harry Collins,
Face to FaceBy David WilliamsonDarwin Theatre CompanyDarwin Entertainment Centre, March 22 to April 8 Review by Peter Johnston
An angry young man, Glen (Tim Sinclair), with a troubled family background, assaults a co-worker and is sacked from the
Students march to defend education
Fifteen hundred students marched on March 22 in a national day of action called by the National Union of Students (NUS). The students called for an end to cuts in staff, a livable income for students, the
US conference exposes Washington's 'war against the poor'
By Bill Nevins
EUGENE, Oregon USA — "People ask me what I'm reading these days. I'm reading history — about the Nazis, about slavery. That seems closest to what is happening to poor
E.H. Carr: the historian as partisan
The vices of integrity: EH Carr 1892-1982By Jonathan HaslamVerso, 1999306pp., $75 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
There haven't been many historians who, having spent most of their career as Foreign Office
Bougainville: doubts over autonomy, referendum agreement
By Mark Abberton
"The Bougainville Revolutionary Army's (BRA) patience is fast running out with the Papua New Guinea government's crippling indecisiveness and inability to understand a
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