BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
HANOI — While the historic advances made by revolutionary Cuba in education, health, welfare and other fields have long made for impressive contrasts with the grinding poverty, illiteracy and death from preventable diseases
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the PreposterousBy Nick CohenVerso, 2000247pp, $35(pb)
"I appreciate there were some people who voted for us who thought we would make a difference. They didn't understand" —
A landowner group along the Ok Tedi River in PNG's Western Province is demanding more than A$1 million compensation for the destruction of the river system by the Ok Tedi mine, owned by BHP.
The Opp Incorporated Land Group, claiming to represent
Finding the enemy
Who is the enemy? This is a dilemma for the US military chasing funding
in a post-Soviet era of peace dividend.
In Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll's dramatic account of intrigue
and interference in data networks
Tahiti's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru was re-elected mayor of the working-class city of Faa'a, near Tahiti's international airport, with an overwhelming majority in the municipal election held March 10-11.
Temaru's election is a big boost
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — March 9 was the 25th anniversary of the victory of the longest teachers' strike in Australian history, the Warilla strike, a date which was commemorated by a dinner of 60 veterans and supporters here.
In 1976, the
BY AL GIORDANO
While it is front-page news in South America, US President George Bush's half-billion dollar increase in funds for Plan Colombia — complete with a public relations facelift and attempted name change — has flown under the radar of
At the founding meeting of the Socialist Alliance on February 17, representatives
of the eight founding parties the Democratic Socialist Party, the International
Socialist Organisation, Workers Power, Workers Liberty, the Workers League,
the
BY MARGARET PERROT
WOLLONGONG — The sacking of Dr Ted Steele from Wollongong University has attracted a great deal of media attention in the past month. Much less well known is the university's treatment of Green Left Weekly journalist and
HOBART — On February 24, Greens Senator BOB BROWN endorsed the May 1 (M1) protests against corporate tyranny. The protests will be held around Australia and target the Australian Stock Exchange. "M1 is a way of expressing the need for us to close
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
DURBAN — On March 5, there were protests by AIDS activists around the world against the South African Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association legal attack on South Africa's laws designed to make anti-AIDS medicines cheaper.
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