By Frank Gollan
SYDNEY — A restructure of one of Australia's largest unions threatens to gut democratic functioning and centralise control over the finances and staffing.
Voting on the proposed restructure of the PSU Group within the
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At 1:30 in the morning of July 12, Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) finally began releasing results from the June 25 legislative and municipal elections, the first held since a US-led military occupation began last September.
By Sue Dunn
ADELAIDE — The SA government announced on March 21 that it would begin the construction in December of the Southern Expressway, a 21-kilometre freeway from Darlington to Old Noarlunga south of here. Local residents report that
Guess what? They didn't mean it!
By Kath Gelber
@column = Even Labor Party women are starting to criticise their party for not taking seriously the goal of filling 35% of winnable seats with women candidates by the year 2000. The ALP
Perth Hiroshima Day
By Anne Pavy
Perth — The proposed French nuclear tests have multiplied interest in plans for the Hiroshima Day demonstration here. The theme for the rally and march on August 6 at Russell Square will be "Nuclear Tests
By Jennifer Thompson
"There were real massacres. We knew that this could happen. The Serbs have done this many times. That which is going on is genocide." These words, by Dutch economic development minister Pronk, were reported by Frankfurther
Ships, planes from US invade Cuban waters
In a statement released on July 14, the Cuban government reported that on the previous afternoon, "around 11 ships, six aircraft and two helicopters from the United States penetrated into the waters and
Non-joker
@lctext = "You ask people here, and they'll tell you I never tell jokes." — Brendan Nelson, Liberal candidate for the safe federal seat of Bradfield, after a dirty joke at a Liberal fundraising dinner fell flat.
Trotskyist view
The music of wandering
Latcho Drom: a journey into the soul of Gypsy culture
Available through Larrikin records
Reviewed by Sujatha Fernandes
Latcho Drom is the soundtrack of the film of the same name currently screening around
By Dave Wright
SYDNEY —Fifty waterside workers picketed the French ship Renoir at Darling Harbour on July 20. The peaceful picket was called by the Maritime Workers Union to protest against the French government's decision to resume nuclear
The following statement marking Cuba's national day was issued by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance.
Revolutionary congratulations and international solidarity are due to the Cuban people and government on July 26, their national
China for Women: Travel and Culture
Spinifex Press, 1995. 357 pp., $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Eva Cheng
China for Women is a useful introduction to women's issues in China. It is handy for non-Chinese speakers, carrying enough in one collection
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