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
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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
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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The radical alternative
In the country with the most monopolised newspaper ownership in the world, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly is the radical alternative.
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ was launched in 1990 by the Democratic Socialist Party, the socialist
By Jo Brown
"The Australian government betrayed the people of East Timor. It supported the invasion. It supported Suharto. It signed the Timor Gap oil treaty with Indonesia. It supported Indonesia remaining in charge of security before, during and
National Textiles workers paid
After nearly nine weeks on the picket lines, 340 workers sacked from the National Textiles plant at Rutherford near Newcastle have been paid $11 million in wages, annual leave, pay in lieu and redundancy. Some workers
By James Vassilopoulos
CANBERRA — East Timor solidarity activist Gareth Smith faced charges of willful damage in the ACT Magistrate's Court on March 24. Last September, Smith painted "Shame Australia shame" on the front of Parliament House. If
New crimes compensation legislation falls short
By Sarah Lantz and Melanie Heenan
In Victoria in July 1997, the Liberal state government abolished crimes compensation awards for pain and suffering. For the majority of victim/survivors of sexual
Somali refugees to be deported
By Sean Healy
Three Somali asylum seekers announced on March 25 that they will ask the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs to deport them because they are so exhausted by the three years they have
Forests
Successive Governments have forced West Australia down a path of environmental destruction. It started with paying farmers to clear land to produce wheat for export dollars and is continuing with the felling of the South West forests to
Environmental criminals
Yet another toxic spill by an Australian mining company in the Third World provides a compelling argument for tougher laws against polluters. It also exposes the futility of "industry self-regulation".
On March 22, one
By John Gauci
SYDNEY — Over the past two weeks, Rupert Murdoch's Daily Telegraph has attacked teachers and their union, the NSW Teachers Federation (NSWTF), in a series of sensationalist front-page stories that contain little more than gross
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