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Community development manual Resource Manual for Facilitators in Community Development By Jeremy McArdle Reviewed by Chris Slee This loose-leaf manual is intended to help community groups gain the skills they need to organise
By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — A Namibian court has found that the 1989 assassination of SWAPO activist Anton Lubowski was the work of a South African Defence Force death squad. The verdict confirms the suspicions of many South Africans and
By Roger Clarke Marxism certainly claims to be scientific, but it is not only science. Marxists accept "the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man [humanity] is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence" (Karl
By Phil Shannon To listen to the Business Council of Australia (BCA), one could be forgiven for thinking that the greenhouse effect is just a load of hot air. At the high profile summit meeting on June 16 between representatives from
By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — Hopes that the African National Congress-dominated government of national unity (GNU) will rapidly move to redistribute wealth and economic power have begun to fade with the presentation of its first budget in Cape
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Responding to pleas from terrified business people and urgent demands from Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Russian President Boris Yeltsin on June 14 issued a decree permitting tough action against Russia's vast and
By June McKay CANBERRA — In a period of international trade agreements, Australian workers can't ignore international issues and working conditions, Greens Senator Dee Margetts told a Canberra Public Sector Union dinner on June 22. The dinner
Not true, unfortunately "Money market 'gone to hell'" — headline in Sunday Telegraph, June 26. Forward planning "The Royal Australian Navy is spending $70 million to buy and convert two American warships into helicopter carriers so

If a presidential election were held in Russia in the near future, the winner would very likely be a populist candidate pledging strong action against corruption and crime; opposing privatisation and promising a

Federal government to fund student organisations By Alex Bainbridge MELBOURNE — The federal government brought legislation before parliament on June 30 to override the "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation enacted by the
The Campaign to Oppose the Return of the Khmer Rouge (CORKR) in the United States has called on the US government to suspend military aid and training projects to Thailand. Sections of the Thai military are actively involved in supporting and arming
ADELAIDE — The state Liberal cabinet has approved in principle a plan for businesses to employ prisoners. The proposal, prepared by the Department of Correctional Services, would allow companies to employ inmates as factory workers in remote