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Angry scenes at hemp rally By Mick White BRISBANE — Twelve people were arrested amidst angry scenes at a July 12 protest against Queensland's marijuana laws. At a rally at King George Square outside the city hall, a crowd of more than
An open letter By Brandon Astor Jones Liberation is a dialectical movement ... women's liberation in the revolution is inseparable from the liberation of [men]. — Angela Davis. Your letter arrived yesterday. Thank you. I am glad to
OH INDUSTRY (Whatever Will Become of Me?) By Kamala Emanuel A cloud descends on Mayfield; It's from the BHP. We cough, we choke, we splutter; We vainly try to see. It greets us when we go out, It greets us coming in. It gets
Dismantling the Bomb The Cutting Edge SBS, Tuesday, July 25, 8.30pm (8 in SA) Previewed by Lisa Macdonald "From day one, when we first produced plutonium in this country, we never had an option for its disposal. The notion always was that
In October occurs the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Australia. Over coming months, Green Left Weekly plans to mark this occasion with a series of historical features and interviews on the CPA and the left from 1920 to the
Mapplethorpe exhibition in Perth Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective WA Art Gallery until August 6 Reviewed by Leon Harrison Robert Mapplethorpe, a famous and controversial gay US photographer, died in 1989 leaving a legacy in his mainly
By Afrodity Giannakis SYDNEY — Teachers at the Adult Migrant English Service (AMES) in Auburn and Parramatta are campaigning to stop a threatened closure of English for migrants classes at Auburn. AMES is administered by the state
By Lisa Macdonald The taking to the streets of tens of thousands of Australians on July 14 to protest the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific was the first clear signal to the federal ALP government that the
By Anthony Brown The resumption of French nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific has once again drawn public attention to the issue of Australian uranium exports to France. Although the federal government announced that it had placed
Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport By Colin Tatz UNSW Press, 1995. 408 pp., $39.95 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon If sport is a "litmus test" for racism in Australia, as Colin Tatz argues in his new book, the results are pretty damning.
Australian gunships in action again on Bougainville By Norm Dixon At least one of the four Iroquois combat helicopters supplied to the Papua New Guinea government by Australia in 1989 is in action over Bougainville again, says the
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — The typical Russian murder: the door of a Jeep Grand Cherokee swings open, cartridge-cases from an assault rifle spray onto the pavement, and a strongly built, crew-cut young man in a strawberry-coloured jacket