LUIS O. GALVEZ TAUPIER, director of Cuban Institute for the Research of Sugar Cane By-products (ICIDCA) and member of the national parliament and the central committee of the Cuban Communist Party, was in Sydney recently where he was interviewed for
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By Lisa Macdonald The results of the Berlin City Parliament and Berlin Borough Councils elections held on October 22 mark a significant shift to the left in German politics. Despite a concerted smear campaign by the right wing which attempted to
By Sue Bolton MELBOURNE — "Our health, our hospital, our decision" was the lead banner of 100-strong protest of Latrobe Valley residents who came to the city on October 26 to show their opposition to hospital privatisation. The action, organised by
By Susan Price GEELONG — John Pilger, renowned journalist, author and film-maker, gave the Edward Wilson Memorial Lecture in Geelong on October 26, to an auditorium of over 400 people. Pilger gave an engaging talk on the history and development of
By Lisa Macdonald On August 29 the World Bank and the Papua New Guinea government finalised a structural adjustment loan. In return for agreeing to adopt a series of rigid economic reforms — a structural adjustment program (SAP) — PNG will
High school students take action against nuclear tests In the week leading up to the third underground nuclear test exploded on October 28 at Moruroa atoll, high school students across Australia were busy organising actions to show their opposition,
By John McCann The expression "as dead as a dodo" could soon apply to Africa's few remaining black rhinos thanks to heartless poachers. Even dedicated park rangers trying to protect this vanishing species from the highly organised gangs which
Castro: Democratise the UN Cuban President Fidel Castro addressed the XI Summit of the Non-aligned Movement at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on October 18. Below is an abridged version of his speech. Our reason d'etre may have sustained changes but
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — After the Russian parliamentary elections of 1993, in which the trade unions failed to participate as an organised and independent force, the majority of union leaders declared that they would not repeat this mistake
By Lisa Macdonald In an unprecedented coalition, 20 leaders of the Anglican, Uniting and Catholic churches sent a letter on October 22 calling on the Labor Party and the Coalition to end logging of Australia's old growth forests. The open letter
White LiesAs it Happened, SBSThursday, November 9, 8.30pm (8pm in SA)Previewed by Norm Dixon Anybody who has had an involvement in the struggle against apartheid over the years will probably have heard of the International Defence and Aid Fund
Can the planet survive tourism By Dave Holmes "The world", enthused a recent Time magazine feature, "is at the dawn of a new Golden Age of travel — an age of voyaging on a truly global mass scale. As the 21st century unfurls, people of every age
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