By John Hallam Bulgarian nuclear reactors "are an accident waiting to happen", according to International Atomic Energy Agency officials, Bulgaria has — or had — five VVER nuclear plants in operation (Kozloduy1-5), with Kozloduy 6 due to be
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SYDNEY — Alistair Hulett, Gayle Austin and Tania Bowra (l. to r.) are gearing up for an afternoon concert hosted by the Glebe Amnesty International group on October 6 at 3 p.m. at the Harold Park Hotel. Other guests include Voices from the Vacant
By Greg Adamson MELBOURNE — A campaign for the release of students imprisoned in Indonesia was one of several national campaigns launched at a conference held here over the weekend of September 21-22. Around 70 people attended the first
By Ian Powell WELLINGTON — There has been a dramatic shift in the popularity of New Zealand's political parties. A Morgan Gallup opinion poll conducted last month recorded a striking increase in support for the left-wing NewLabour Party from
NSW stoppage a step forward In a welcome return to recognition of the need for political action as a tool of labour struggle, the NSW Labour Council has provisionally called a statewide one-day stoppage for October 15 in opposition to the NSW
By Sally Low PARIS — While the 10th anniversary in May of his election as president was an occasion for glowing eulogies to Socialist Party leader Francois Mitterrand, he and his party's government are now suffering from widespread
By Kevin Healy Democracy and freedom and all those values we love and cherish were preserved yet again by those assiduous, community-concerned, probing journalists down at the Lord Rupert of Wopping Sin. But for the vigilance of the Wopping Sin,
By Max Bridson MELBOURNE — The toxic smoke plume from Coode Island that hung over Melbourne for two days in August belonged to Australia's richest man, Kerry Packer. Naturally enough he didn't boast about it, or apologise for it. That's not
The recent announcement of plans to extend the power of police to tap phones raises once again the question of how really our democratic rights are. On these pages we present a slightly abridged version of a paper JOAN COXSEDGE, Victorian MLC,
By Rosemary Evans Which small country, often in the news, never provides TV journalists with images of police violently charging protesters (with or without tear gas), of faces consumed with murderous hatred, of fleeing civilians, of cars in
High-minded "Warwick revenged his father by taking over Fairfax. Murdoch got revenge by taking over the Herald and Weekly Times. If the Black[-Packer] consortium wins control of Fairfax, there will be an element of revenge for Packer, whose family
By Peter Annear The federal army is now an independent factor in the national conflict in Yugoslavia, Sonja Licht, co-convener of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, an eastern European peace and human rights watchdog, told Green Left Weekly in
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