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A two-week issue

A two-week issue 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly is taking a mid-year break next week. The next issue will be dated June 18.

Queensland public servants stop work

Queensland public servants stop work By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Federal public servants throughout Queensland stopped work for half a day on May 29 as part of the Community and Public Sector Union's national campaign to protect Australian

Fighting the system: young radicals' conference

Fighting the system: young radicals' conference By Sean Healy "Fight the system" is the theme of the 26th national conference of the socialist youth organisation, Resistance. The conference, to be held in Melbourne July 3-6, is

Taking a sharp pen to the born-to-rule machines

The Crocodile ClubBy Kaz CookeAllen & Unwin, 1997. 230 pp., $14.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon The comic genius of Kaz Cooke has been let loose again with the paperback release of her novel, The Crocodile Club. There is no funnier cure than Kaz

Rally slams executions by Iraq

Rally slams executions by Iraq By Sue Bull CANBERRA — Forty people rallied outside the Iraqi embassy here on May 30 to protest against executions of political prisoners by the Baghdad regime. Between February and April, 264 political

NSW ALP government plans power sell-off

By Margaret Gleeson SYDNEY — Emulating Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett, NSW Labor treasurer Michael Egan announced on May 22 that the government intends to sell the state's power generation, transmission and distribution system for a $22

International news briefs

Turkish forces massacre Kurds More than 100 civilians killed when Turkish government forces launched an attack on the city of Irbil in the Kurdish part of northern Iraq on May 16. Heavy artillery was used against the hospital of the Kurdish Red

Young people build solidarity

By Sarah Peart More than 700 people attended some 40 events organised by Resistance and other East Timor solidarity groups during the week of action for a "Free East Timor and Democracy for Indonesia" from May 17-24. Organiser of the Sydney

A story of the human spirit

Some Mother's SonDirected by Terry GeorgeStarring Helen Mirren and Fionnula FlanaganNow screening in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney Review by Michael Heany Any visitor to Northern Ireland who keeps at least half an eye open will notice that politics

Caught in the web of ASIO suspicion

My Father's Son: The Last Knot UntiedBy Ric ThrossellMelbourne: em Press, 1997. 428 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Canberra author and former Commonwealth public servant Ric Throssell is one of many Australians to have fallen foul of

Brisbane picket hits state budget

Brisbane picket hits state budget By Bill Mason @box text intro = BRISBANE — Colourful banners and placards from a variety of unions and community groups were displayed outside the Queensland parliament here on May 29 in a speak-out and

Indonesians reject Suharto's election fraud

By Max Lane Two days after the elections in Indonesia, interim official results are giving President Suharto's Golkar party 74% of the vote, the Islamic United Development Party (PPP) about 23% and the puppet Indonesian Democratic Party