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Chileans march for justice By Jenny Forward ARICA — On September 11, the 19th anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet's bloody coup, there was an emotional march by 70,000 people to the tomb of Salvador Allende. The action was the start
Brown backs 'clean green' candidates MELBOURNE — Victorians would get best value by voting for independents backing small business, local control and "clean green" produce, Tasmanian Green MP Bob Brown said on September 24. Brown spoke at
We know what happened to the once high-flying "entrepreneurs" of the 1980s. After their orgy of big borrowing and asset shuffling, many are bankrupt yet still live in luxury. Christopher Skase hides away in Spain, Alan Bond is free after a brief
By Yuli Ismartono Four years ago, the world watched in horror as a popular uprising against 25 years of military dictatorship in Burma was mercilessly crushed, leaving hundreds dead and wounded and thousands fleeing to neighbouring Thailand.
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — "Whether the Liberal or Labor party wins the October 3 state election, we can expect more attacks on public transport, health, education and workers' rights", Dave Holmes, Democratic Socialist candidate for
The following letter has been received by TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign and translated from the Portuguese. To the directors of international human rights institutions in Australia, America, Europe and Africa: Dear Sirs, We are
Comment by Dave Holmes [This is the text of a talk presented to the Independent Action electoral meeting in Melbourne on September 16.] These elections are marked by the record field of 182 candidates running independently of the major
By Alex Cooper MELBOURNE — Jeremy Dixon, who describes himself as an anarcho-syndicalist, is trying to wage a legal war against Section 464Q of the Crimes Act of Victoria, which gives police the widest powers to collect fingerprints. He is
By Catherine Brown On September 17 Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government announced plans to deport thousands of Romanians, many of them victims of the recent neo-Nazi attacks on refugee hostels in eastern Germany. Since the racist riots
By Kevin Healy The federal minister for business finance, Ralph, came up with a scintillating piece of economic logic this week. You'll remember how the government made this brilliant deal a while ago when it got a windfall for the public purse
By Karen Fredericks On September 8 Robin Greenburg, former head of the Western Women investment group, was sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment by the Perth District Court following her pleas of guilty to 55 offences relating to the collapse of
By Miriam Tramer The Israeli kibbutz is based on totally communal production and ownership of property, while locked into a capitalist market economy of a colonial repressive state. In Israel, I visited a kibbutz in the Jordan Valley and