Standard operating policy
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Correspondence is prohibited with individuals outside the continental United States who are not related by birth, marriage, or legal adoption." — Warden A.G. Thomas
To the dismay and
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By Norm Dixon
As the African National Congress (ANC) prepares to hold its first national congress since winning an overwhelming majority in the April elections, there has been no let-up in the wave of struggles by workers, students, the landless
Australian journalist and film maker John Pilger was recently in Sydney on the way back to England from a trip to New Zealand. Zanny Begg from Green Left Weekly spoke with him about the changing face of world politics.
John Pilger isn't very
Kurdish newspapers bombed
The offices in Turkey of Kurdish daily Ozgur Ulke were bombed on the morning of December 3. The first bomb went off in Istanbul at about 3:30am. About five minutes later, the Ankara office was also bombed. The last bomb
By Karen Fletcher
US writer Naomi Wolf and former Victorian premier Joan Kirner have recently completed a national tour of their self-styled "Feminist Roadshow" or "Sister Act".
With ticket prices ranging from $45 to $120, the Sydney forum,
Time Is On Our Side — The Rolling Stones Story — This series is crammed with interviews, unique session performances and their music from the past three decades. Parts 2-3-4. ABC Radio National, Wednesday, December 14/21/28, 2.05pm.
Women and the pope
In January, Australians are to be treated to a visit from the pope. He's coming over for the beatification of the person expected to become Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop.
It's an interesting turn of events,
One of the more controversial events of 1994 was the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in September. GISELA DUeTTING, who attended from the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, based in the
Consumers
Tony Hastings (Write on #170) says that "the proletariat don't need their living standards raised any higher". Tell that to the majority of working people in Australia, whose standard of living has decreased in the last decade. Tell
Poem: I Becomes We
By Denis O'Neill
When I awake
Who is there? I
When I drink my tea
Who is there? I
When I take my walk
Who walks? I
I go home again
Who is there?
I again.
Again I.
Best I go
To the Resistance
By Jackie Coleman
HAVANA — Miami-based TV Marti has succeeded in broadcasting less than an hour of programs into Cuba since it started transmissions in March 1990. While Cuban technicians have been able to scramble its signal and thus block US
About Us: My life as I live it — Aboriginal activist Essie Coffey's first film, My survival as an Aboriginal, was an immediate success at its release in 1978. This new documentary looks at what progress against racism has been made in Essie's home
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