In this interview by Eduardo Jimanez Garcia, which first appeared in Alma Mater, the journal of the University of Havana, Mariela Castro Espin, the director of the Cuban National Institute for Sex Education (CENESEX), advocates an amendment to the
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Sarah Stephen
Government policy that imposes ever harsher measures to "protect our borders" from desperate refugees doesn't just increase suffering, it kills.
The people-smuggling disruption program that Australia was central to establishing in
A Twist of Lemon DeliciousWritten by the Lesbian IdolsDirected by Louise FisherNew Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown, SydneyMarch 6-13Bookings (02) 9519 8958$15 per ticket
REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS
As part of the lead up to Sydney's gay and lesbian
Tariq Ali
The whole world knows that US President George Bush and British PM Tony Blair lied to justify the war, but do they know the price being paid on the ground in Iraq?
First, the blood price — paid by civilians and others every week. More
Alastair Greig & Dick Nichols
The first issue of Seeing Red, the "forum of social, political and cultural dissent" launched by the Socialist Alliance, will be rolling off the presses in the next couple of weeks.
While the members of the editorial
REVIEW BY PIP HINMAN
A Woman of Independence: A story of love and the birth of a new nationBy Kirsty Sword GusmaoPan Macmillan Australia 2003320 pages, $30 (pb)
Kirsty Sword Gusmao's book, A Woman of Independence, is not just a love story.
Robyn Marshall, Brisbane
The Liquor, Hospitality, and Miscellaneous Workers Union is taking an equity case to the industrial court to improve wages and conditions for childcare workers.
The childcare industry is dominated by women workers, and
James Balowski, Jakarta
In a statement issued on February 23, Amnesty International said that the five human rights activists and one other person who were detained by the Indonesian police between February 19 and February 23 in Indonesia's
REVIEWED BY ALEX MILLER
Red ClydesideAlistair Hulett and Dave SwarbrickRed Rattler
The extraordinary industrial and political militancy in the west of Scotland in the second decade of the 20th Century led Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir
Married with a house in the suburbs, 1.9 kids and a white picket fence? No thanks. Some people on the left have echoed this caricature, arguing that radicals should oppose gay marriage — or at least turn our attentions elsewhere.
True, marriage
The following letter was sent by the Western Suburbs Community Campaign Against Racism (to the residents of the Redfern Block in mid-February.
Dear friends,
We wish to express our condolences to the family and friends of Thomas "TJ" Hickey. This
A federal government-funded advertising campaign against domestic violence has been shelved indefinitely.
At a cost of several million dollars, the series of advertisements designed to target emotional and physical abuse in young people's
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