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By Angela Matheson "I began slashing my wrists after two male prisons officers ordered me to urinate in a bottle while they watched. They said they were testing me for drugs, but no matter how hard I tried, my body just wouldn't do it. As
By Janet Parker SYDNEY — Anger at the third runway disaster continues to grow. Government promises of enforcing curfews and fining airlines which flout flight paths have proved a sham. The government package, launched with great ceremony
Aunty Raelene's debut album New Dork Nation Aunty Raelene Reviewed by Tully Bates The debut album for Aunty Raelene is one of the best political roots dance albums you could possibly hear. Basil, one of the four members of the group,
The Simpsons — At last! Channel Ten has finally decided to begin screening a new series of The Simpsons. The old episodes have been re-run so often that Simpsons fans must know the scripts off by heart. Despite being 'toons, the antics of Bart,
While the Green Left presses may have been silent over the Christmas period, that didn't stop activists from getting out and winning new supporters to the project. Between December 28 and January 1, a team of activists from Brisbane, Sydney and
Sydney Gaywaves appeal for support — The management of Sydney's 2SER-FM is considering reducing the Gaywaves Collective's 2.5J243>155DJ0>/.5>255D> hour weekly timeslot, moving it from its current 8-10.30pm Thursday spot to an earlier time and
Right at sea on affirmative action By Kath Gelber The fight to retain the Coogee women's pool in Sydney for women only is not over. The salt-water rock pool has been used exclusively by women and children for over 70 years, including
A mission from the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) visited Chechnya and the neighbouring republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia in December. The delegation investigated the November 1992 conflict over the Prigorodni Rayon
Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 By Eric Hobsbawm Michael Joseph, 1994. 627 pp., $45 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon There is a new addition to Eric Hobsbawm's superb Marxist historical trilogy (Age of Revolution, Age
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — The mood in the camp of the right-wing Russian "democrats" during the first days of December was savage. After an important round of provincial and local elections on November 29, the time had come to sum up the
By Max Lane SYDNEY — More than 2000 people attended a public lecture by Noam Chomsky on January 20 organised by the East Timor Relief Association. Chomsky devoted most of his lecture to exposing US and Western foreign policy in relation to
By Jennifer Thompson The struggle for socialism today was the basis for discussion at the 16th national conference of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), which took place in Sydney in early January. The conference took up key issues