The Party of Labour, Russia's best-known "new left" formation, is holding its official founding conference on October 9 and 10. IRINA GLUSHCHENKO reports from Moscow on the impact the party has already made. An organising committee for the
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Proud of his enemies By Karen Fredericks SYDNEY — At a public signing of his new book Distant Voices at Gould's Bookshop in Glebe on October 10, John Pilger elaborated upon his refusal to enter into a public brawl with Ben Hills. Hills
Record ozone loss over Antarctica This year's Antarctic ozone hole is deeper than ever before and started forming earlier than ever before, Greenpeace said on September 24. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has revealed
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — A just-completed conference of international experts has confirmed that relatively low exposure to lead pollution can permanently damage intellectual development in children. The October 5-9 gathering of the
Correction In our September 30 issue, a photograph of an anti-logging protest at Wild Cattle Creek was incorrectly credited. The photographer was Dirk Millburn.
By Catherine Brown An Athens football stadium was packed to capacity with 40,000 people on October 6, and another 20,000 gathered outside, all in solidarity with bus workers, who have been on strike since July. The strikers, who have been
Wilderness Society says forest ad is wrong By Peter Anderson SYDNEY — The Wilderness Society has appealed to the Trade Practices Commission, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and the Advertising Standards Council for a nationwide ban on
By Peter Boyle A national Green Party was slow to emerge in Australia because the major conservation movements were "romanced" by federal and state Labor governments, according to Peter Christoff, Victoria's assistant commissioner for the
The murder that stays with us Swoon Directed by Tom Kalin Starring Craig Chester and Dam Schlachet Valhalla Cinema, Glebe; Classic, Brisbane Reviewed by Tom Flanagan Based on the 1924 murder of a young boy by two Chicago youths, Swoon
By Frank Noakes BLACKPOOL — Tory Sir Robert Peel wrote in the 1820s: "Men (sic) who ... have no property except their manual skill and strength, ought to be allowed to confer together, if they think fit, for the purpose of determining at what
By Sean Malloy While the ALP government insists the recession is "technically" finished, hundreds of thousands of people face long-term unemployment, and there is an increasing amount of underemployment, according to two articles in the latest
Comment by Barry Healy Federal public servants will be voting in the next few weeks on three alternative motions framed by the National Executive of the Public Sector Union to open the way for enterprise bargaining in the Australian Public
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