No facts, please
"I don't see what the purpose of a fact-finding study would be." — Peter Burleigh, US deputy ambassador to the UN, on an Arab League proposal that the UN investigate whether the bombed Khartoum chemical factory was producing
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While visiting England in June, Green Left Weekly's SUJATHA FERNANDES spoke to feminist author and lecturer LYNNE SEGAL, (Is the Future Female, Sex Exposed and Straight Sex), about the state of feminism today. Question: Do you think feminism made
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin on August 23 sacked Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko and the entire government in the midst of a shattering financial crisis. From the second week of August, the country's newly restored
By James Vassilopoulos
SYDNEY — In a legal victory for the National Union of Workers (NUW), the Federal Court on August 27 ruled that Davids, the wholesale grocer, must reinstate 52 workers sacked from its Silverwater and Blacktown warehouses.
Solidarity
We protest against the continued imprisonment of People's Democratic Party (PRD) prisoners in Indonesia. They are not released because the government feels the real threat from these brave comrades in chains.
This exposes the hypocrisy
By Norm Dixon
As US President Bill Clinton's justifications for the unprovoked cruise missile attack on the Al-Shifa medicine factory in Sudan on August 20 unravel, the attack is being exposed for what it was: a blatant act of state terrorism. At
Running out of room
There are at least two important messages to be drawn from the sharp decline in the Australian dollar, which last week fell to its lowest level ever against the US dollar.
One is that the Howard government has been lying
By Sarah Peart
On August 21, Energy Resources of Australia's chief executive, Philip Shirvington, announced plans to finalise, before the federal election, contracts for selling uranium mined at Jabiluka in Kakadu National Park. The Jabiluka mine,
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Veteran state Labor MP Jim Fouras has warned the ALP it will deprive Aboriginal people of a "fundamental right to land" if it proceeds with its native title legislation, now before state parliament. Fouras quoted legal
Billy Craigie: Gomilaroy warrior
By Lara Pullin
Billy Craigie grew up in Gomilaroy country near Moree. He was a Gomilaroy warrior, and last month was laid to rest in a traditional burial. He died of a heart attack at the place he helped to build
Comment by Dave Riley
The recent secondary student walkouts have promoted a wave of discussion on the topic of racism — what it is and how to fight it. But the new rise in the confidence of the anti-racist forces, spawned by the student actions,
Vote with your feet against racism
The following call by Resistance for a further nationwide secondary student protest against racism on the Wednesday before the federal election was strongly supported at many of the August 28 rallies. We are told
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