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  1. Unwilling participants in war

    tragedy of the war. Asmahan, who is trying to make some sense of the war and the changes it has wrought on ... war that engulfed Lebanon between 1975 and its official end in 1990. Set in the late 1980s and written ... lovers, the land, the war and her beloved city of Beirut, which she is forced to flee. The result is ...

  2. Write on: letters to the editor

    exploit population debate" on December 13, 1995 borders on libel. The Australian Democrats have ... a long and proud history on immigration and race issues based on humanitarian principles and ... this statement on the cover insinuates that all people who speak of sustainable population levels are ...

  3. The real costs of India's economic liberalisation

    have provided women with any genuine reforms. On the brink of an economic crisis in the late 1980s the ... and growth. However such policies not only impact negatively on women, they set in place longer-term ... in unemployment, a direct result of privatisation and closures, impact badly on women as they are ...

  4. ... and ain't i a woman?: Female students' success provokes backlash

    men stay on to the end of school, more young women take out academic prizes and more gain entry to ... common for the establishment media: to make women's issues appear more as a "gender war ... female students in comparison to male students. In every state and territory more young women than young ...

  5. Conference discusses way forward for left

    Popular Alliance government's war against the Tamil people and the war's effect on the Tamil ... by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance on the theme "Socialism — the way ... John Percy began the conference with a feature talk outlining debates on socialist strategy in the ...

  6. Israeli land seizures continue as Palestinians vote

    for elections on January 20. On December 25 hundreds of acres of land were confiscated from the West ... construct a road six kilometres long and 150 metres wide. On December 26, Israeli bulldozers began levelling ... villages of Qalqilya and Tulkarm, and the Green Line marking Israel's border following the 1948 war ...