By Stephen Marks
Communists in the Dominican Republic have won respect for being incorruptible in a society where politics and principles are bought and sold. This respect is shown in the most surprising ways. We were on our way to the closing
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By Norm Dixon
At midnight on April 14, a force of Papua New Guinea Defence Force soldiers and members of the pro-PNG Bougainville resistance crossed into the Solomon Islands and raided the village of Kariki, according to reports reaching the
VIENNA — Cancer rates are up to 200 times higher than average in areas contaminated by radiation from the 1986 explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine, according to a Greenpeace report titled Chernobyl: 10 years after, the
By Lisa Macdonald
On April 17, ACT Green MLA Kerrie Tucker moved in the ACT Legislative Assembly to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 in the ACT. The Greens' move, the first attempt in Australia to introduce such legislation, is supported by
By Dick Nichols
Industrial relations minister Peter Reith is refusing to talk numbers, but the Coalition government is clearly planning massive redundancies in the public service. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) believes that at least
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The South Australian parliament may take a step towards public accountability following a decision by the upper house to view details of contracts related to outsourcing. Last year, in a deal worth $700 million,
By Stephen Marks
The Dominican Revolutionary Forces (FR) and the Camaa&241;ista Revolutionary Union are calling for a boycott of the national elections in May. The current president, Joaquín Balaguer, has been in power for 22 of the last 30
Queensland University occupied
BRISBANE — Two hundred and fifty students occupied the student union offices at the University of Queensland on April 18 in response to the student union's failure to represent them, in particular the union
The "Democratic Socialism 96" conferences, held in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart and Brisbane over the Easter weekend, and in Perth, Darwin and Canberra the following weekend, were a great success. More than 500 people participated in a wide
ISTANBUL — The multinational oil company Shell has systematically polluted a huge underground reserve of drinkable water in an aquifer near the city of Diyarbakir in south-east Turkey, where up to 2 million people live, Greenpeace revealed at a
While the Indonesian military regularly massacres dissidents in West Papua, East Timor and Aceh, and the PNG military is fighting a war against the people of Bougainville to defend the interests of Australian capital, Australian policy is to support
By Sujatha Fernandes
NEW DELHI — "Gulamiya ab ham nahi bajai bo, aazadiya hamra ki bhave le" — We won't be slaves any more. We've come to like freedom. Drumming vigorously on the back of the truck and singing this Bhojpuri peasant song, 15
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