PERTH — On June 9, 1987, Gary Hayes was questioned by police in suburban Scarborough. He was taken to the nearby Wembley CIB. During a night and day in police custody, Gary was beaten and strangled and whipped across the face with handcuffs. He
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The United Nations has gone on record for the second time urging the United States to lift its 30-year economic blockade of Cuba. The vote on November 3 in the General Assembly showed a strong world majority against the US policy: 88 countries voted
Save Our Planet Earth
Jimmy Cliff
Musidisc through Festival
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
Amongst the latest albums from the French Musidisc label to be released in this country by Festival Records is a little gem by Jamaican reggae great Jimmy
Gerard Hopkins
Ireland and violence
Irish Republicans take no satisfaction in tragedies like that which occurred on the Shankill Road on October 23. No matter how many times we reiterate that statement, it will fall on deaf ears. Every
By Tony Smith
SYDNEY — If you are among the 95% of Australians alarmed by the way some politicians have exploited the concept of a republic, the conference "Republicanism, citizenship, community" at the Australian Museum on November 6 was for
By Alex Chis
On October 31 in Moscow, three television cameras and numerous radio and press reporters recorded the newly formed US Committee for Democratic and Human Rights in Russia read a statement condemning the attacks on civil liberties and
By Vivienne Porzsolt
Dr Gabriel Baramki, president of Bir Zeit University, in Sydney on a recent visit, spoke to Green Left Weekly about the prospects for peace following the signing of the Declaration of Principles on September 13.
Dr
On October 26, Green Left Weekly in Canberra sponsored a forum for all candidates in the current Public Sector Union elections. The following letter was sent in reply to that invitation by PSU Alliance candidate Ross Campbell. Greg Adamson from PSU
By Jill Hickson
SYDNEY — Around 70 people packed into the Art Resistance video studio here recently for the premiere of a new video on Bougainville. Bougainville: Australia's Hidden War was produced by Actively Radical TV, a community-based
El Salvador's right wing has stepped up intimidation with the death squad murders of four FMLN members in one week.
On October 27, just two days after FMLN leader Francisco Veliz was shot while taking his toddler to a day care centre, two FMLN
By Catheryn Thompson
Vudthikorn Chittiwan is a lecturer in aquatic science at Prince of Songkla University in south Thailand. He has a scholarship from the Australian government to study the environmental impacts of prawn farming on mangrove
By Debbie Brennan
The New South Wales Asbestos Ex-Miners Aboriginal Corporation has waged a five-year fight to take James Hardie Industries to court with a community-based compensation claim for asbestos-related diseases and death. It is now
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