By Greg Shapley SYDNEY — For the last few Sunday nights, the small bayside suburb of Kyeemagh has played host to a most unusual phenomenon. At sunset a rather large group (police have estimated 2000) of young people congregate, not (as the
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By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — As the Kennett government steps up its assault on working people in Victoria the campaign to defeat these attacks is in grave danger of being subsumed by Keating's re-election bid, according to the Democratic
For many years 1950s US films like Reefer Madness and I was a Communist for the FBI have been reliable money raisers for radical and progressive organisations. Deadly serious when they were first made — a grotesque mix of anti-communist hysteria
By Zari Duniam and Dave Wright HOBART — Some 100 people attended a very lively, and sometimes heated, debate called "Trade Unions, Jobs, and Industrial Relations in the '90's", at Politics in the Pub here on December 4. The forum, sponsored
Billed as a "war on hunger", the dispatch of 30,000 foreign soldiers to Somalia with instructions to protect food convoys with all necessary force is in reality a mark of just how far the situation has deteriorated there under Western tutelage.
John Horner The US dollar lost ground today against a strong Deutschmark, and the All-Ordinaries Index finished the day firmer at 1684.1. In the pollution exchanges, rotting fish belly-up in poisoned rivers made strong gains against dying pine
By Sean Malloy Unemployment in Australia is currently around the 11% mark. October's unemployment rate was recorded at 11.3% nationally by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This figure corresponds to 979,500 people out of work. Young
By Catherine Brown DUBLIN — "The main reason for this referendum is because the government does not accept that suicidal tendency is a reason for abortion", explained the then Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds. On November 26, not only was
NSW Premier John Fahey has noticed a social problem: given the option, many women and children would rather live in emergency shelters than stay at home with their family. Last week, however, he came up with a solution — remove the refuge
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — "We intend to come to power from below, by winning the political trust of the people." This was how Party of Labour leader Aleksandr Buzgalin mapped out the future of the Union of Democratic Left Forces, formed at a
Carr crashes at rally By Dick Nichols SYDNEY — The central city rally on the November 30 National Day of Action here revealed a new level of hatred and disgust with Labor politicians on the part of the 3-4000 workers present. State ALP
Radio National Christmas Appeal for Africa — On the weekend of December 12-13, the Radio National network will be suspending regular programs to raise funds for Community Aid Abroad's projects in Africa. The weekend of live broadcasting will
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