Unions plan struggle to defend wages
By Boris Kravchenko and Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Defying heavy government pressure, Russia's main union body went ahead on September 28 with a conference that had been intended to map out a campaign of
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Academic defends group named as cult
By Michael Collins
How free should academics be to lend the authority of their positions to doctrines which have not been subject to academic evaluation? The question arises in regard to the group Kenja,
Democrats arrested, beaten
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Three leaders of the Party of Labour were arrested and savagely beaten as the regime of Boris Yeltsin moved to suppress the democratic opposition.
Around 11 p.m. on October 3,
Shooting at the Moon
Shooting at the Moon: Peace Workers in Cambodia Tell Their Stories
A photographic exhibition at the Sydney Town Hall October 9-16 and from October 18 in Canberra at Old Parliament House.
Heide Smith's photographs
Seizing the night
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — Green it Up! presented a special event on September 16. Nineteen women performers demonstrated their talents for an audience of more than 100 people.
A mixture of poetry, storytelling and
Great original concept! — A recent addition to the Sydney Morning Herald's pink guide is a column entitled "Radio Highlights". It seems the concept behind the SMH's RH column is to inform readers about particular radio programs of particular
Compensation sought for wrongful jailing
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Kelvin Condren, who was jailed for seven years for murder, despite confessions by another man that he committed the crime, is claiming more than $1 million in compensation
Cuban doctor speaks
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Cuba's unique and revolutionary health care system has faced the challenge of the recent polyneuropathy epidemic — affecting the eyesight of many citizens — by mobilising the country's
By Chris Slee
Sri Lankan workers are suffering badly under the free market policies of the United National Party government, which has ruled the country since 1977. Anton Marcus, joint secretary of the Industrial, Transport and General Workers
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Following on its suppression of the parliament-sponsored newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the regime of President Boris Yeltsin on October 4 suspended publication of a long series of opposition journals. At the same
By Glenn Phillips
and Kevin Verkerk
The Wilderness Society has concluded a peaceful blockade of forestry operations in compartment 1402 of the Nalbaugh State Forest. The blockade followed a denial by State Forests Inc (formerly the Forestry
Solidarity theme of North-South dialogue
By Sean Healy
NEW DELHI — A round-table discussion on "North-South dialogue: youth perspectives" was held here September 22-23. Organised by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), the
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