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Indian child labourers organise

Across India, more than 40 million children work in industries making such products as bangles, fireworks, matches, carpets, glass, hosiery and leather.

They also serve

They also serve Clerks Written and directed by Kevin Smith Opening in March at the Kino, Melbourne Reviewed by Chantal Wynter and Kelly Jean Clerks is a hilarious film by 24-year-old first time director Kevin Smith. Based on the

Environmentalists 'must relate to workers'

Environmentalists 'must relate to workers' By Anthony Benbow PERTH — Green Left Weekly spoke to Bill Ethell, secretary of the Construction, Mining, Energy, Timberyard, Sawmillers and Woodworkers Union (WA CFMEU) about the woodchipping

Latin American educators meet in Cuba

By Tom Griffiths Havana — Some 5000 educators from all over Latin America, including school teachers, academics and Ministry personnel, attended the biannual educational conference in Cuba, "Pedagogia 95", February 6-10. Co-Sponsored by

Vietnam ponders how to handle street kids

By Frank Eckardt HO CHI MINH CITY — Nguyen Rithy Ti is one of a small but increasing number of street children here. He says he left his family two years ago after he had trouble getting along with the grandmother he was sent to live with when

Prostitution debated in South Australia

By Penny Saunders Decriminalisation of prostitution continues to be debated in the South Australian parliament, and it is expected that this issue will gain momentum in the coming weeks. On February 9 Mark Brindal, a Liberal backbencher,

Review admits crisis in Aboriginal health

By Chris Martin Released last week, the federal government's review of its five-year National Aboriginal Health Strategy has added more detail to the picture emerging from various state studies of a permanent and deepening Aboriginal health

Action updates

ADELAIDE — A cross campus network has been formed following a meeting of around 40 people on February 13. The CCN will be organising South Australia's involvement in the two National Days of Action, called by the No Fees Conference held in

What future for woodchipping?

Poll after poll reaffirms that Australians, by and large, want the remaining stands of old growth forests protected. The Herald-McNair poll, released on February 15, revealed that nearly half the population want export woodchipping phased out by the

Woodchipping: Who profits? Who pays?

By Bruce Marlowe What are the real economics of Australia's woodchipping industry? Answering this apparently simple question is no simple matter, because much of the corporate data is secret, and vital government information has been declared

Government blamed

Government blamed Twenty conservationists occupied the Eden office of the NSW Forestry Commission (State Forests) on February 15 to focus attention on those responsible for the decision to target high conservation value compartments which are

The same old world disorder

World Orders, Old and New By Noam Chomsky Pluto Press, 1994 311 pp., $34.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon "The roots of policy lie deep in firmly established institutional structures of power". Chomsky's latest expedition to uncover the