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By Norm Dixon In August tens of thousands of people flock to the capital of Scotland from all parts of the world. They come to celebrate the curious and sad fact that the subjugated people of Scotland have provided the cannon fodder and shock
Chilean President Patricio Aylwin was met by a vigorous protest by members of the Chilean exile community and their supporters on his October 5 visit to Sydney Town Hall. The main demand of the demonstrators was "No to impunity", referring to moves
Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War By John MurphyAllen & Unwin, 1993. 335 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon When the first Australian troops were sent to Vietnam in 1965, there was little public protest and little
By George Petersen Shellharbour municipality, on the coast about 20 kilometres south of Wollongong, is virtually a dormitory suburb for workers in the Port Kembla industrial area, although a growing number of workers commute to Sydney. It has a
Adelaide universities go out By Alison Dellit ADELAIDE — Academics from all three South Australian universities joined the national strike on October 18. The president of the Adelaide University Staff Association, Rod Crowther, said
Patricia Sharpe Inside Indonesia, Australia's best-known quarterly magazine on Indonesian society and politics, celebrates 10 years of publishing this month. Written in English it is a glossy journal of 30-odd pages presenting views and analysis
Next on the chopping block? In its decade in office, the federal Labor government has repeatedly demonstrated its lack of commitment to public ownership. Already partially privatised are the Commonwealth Bank, Qantas, the manufacture of defence
By Max Lane The Manila Rizal Branch of the Communist Party of the Philippines — known as MR — comprises about 5000 members and has influence within a range of organisations with a base of 120,000 people even in quiet times. Visiting Manila
ADELAIDE — Sixty workers from the Department of Family and Community Services gathered in their lunch break on October 11 to protest against staffing cutbacks at DFACS. Public Service Association representative John McGuinness told the workers that
By Nikki Ulasowski BRISBANE — More than 100 people gathered at City Hall here on October 12 to hear about the toxic waste dump in Gurulmundi. The forum was organised by PATCH (People Against Toxic Chemical Hazards), which has been campaigning
By Margaret Bowman SYDNEY — On September 28 more than 40 people demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate here in a protest, organised by the World League for Protection of Animals, against the cruel farming of Asiatic or "moon" bears in
By Alex Chis On July 26 in Richmond, a predominantly African-American industrial city in the San Francisco Bay area, more than 7000 pounds of sulfuric acid fumes poured from a leaky General Chemical railroad car for three hours, forming a