By Renay Albert I have just returned from a trip to the Tarkine rainforest in Tasmania to see for myself what is happening to Australia's wilderness areas. What I found was shocking and heartbreaking. One minute you are walking through fairytale
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By Lisa Macdonald The decision by well-known consumer rights advocate Ralph Nader to challenge US President Bill Clinton as a Green Party candidate in the 1996 presidential elections is causing some ripples in US politics. The 62-year-old Nader will
The Chinese government has made a few clumsy attempts recently to curb information exchange between the Chinese people and the outside world.
Comment by Alex Bainbridge "Left wins control of national student union" was the headline of an article printed in the Australian on January 10, reporting on the newly elected National Executive of the National Union of Students (NUS). Since NUS's
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical MaterialismBy Ellen Meiksins WoodCambridge University Press, 1995. 300 pp., $29.95 (pb)Reviewed by Neville Spencer The relative quiescence of working-class movements in the advanced capitalist world
South Africa since the elections Post-apartheid South Africa will mark its second birthday at the end of April. NORM DIXON was there as a Green Left Weekly correspondent in the months before and after the country's first democratic elections. Here he
By Marcus Greville SYDNEY — Public pressure is continuing to try to force roads minister Michael Knight to honour the state Labor government's election promise to disband the construction of the controversial M2 motorway. However, the government's
By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — One of this city's most popular and enduring cultural events, the St Kilda Festival, is almost under way again. Perhaps best known for its street festival and free beach concert (this year featuring Chocolate Starfish
By Nick Soudakoff Canberra — A mass meeting of university workers on January 30 voted to reject the federal government's offer of a 5.6% wage increase funded by a loan at 4% interest.The meeting voted to begin a "low intensity" industrial campaign
Eyewitness: protest stories from IndonesiaBy Seno Gumira AjidarmaTranslated by Jan Lingard with Bibi Langkar and Suzan PiperSydney: Inprint Books, 1995. 138 pp., $14.95Reviewed by Michael Tardif The occupation of the Russian and Dutch embassies in
By Pip Hinman Voter alienation from the two major parties is fast becoming a hot topic of debate. Surveys, feature articles and even small booklets such as the recently published Politicians and Citizens: Rights and Responsibilities, by the Catholic
Attack by Neo-Nazis MELBOURNE — The house and car of anti-Nazi activists David Glanz and Judy McVey were attacked in the early hours of January 27. Swastikas were sprayed on the house and swastika and SS symbols on the car, which also had its
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