Russian journalist held after nuclear waste exposé
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Undeterred by the fiasco surrounding their prosecution of anti-nuclear activist Aleksandr Nikitin, Russia's security forces are holding another
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Nuclear leak at British plant
Authorities are monitoring two workers exposed to radiation in a leak at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in north-west Britain, Associated Press reported on February 1. The workers were among 13 people in a
New action against deaths in custody
By Jennifer Thompson
A report on the inquest of the death of Eddie Murray and the subsequent Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission investigation was published late last year by the Newcastle Legal
Kabui: 'Independence for Bougainville remains the goal'
By Norm Dixon
Independence from Papua New Guinea remains the goal of the Bougainville people, according to the vice-president of the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG), Joseph Kabui.
Hunter Valley miners continue to fight
By Alison Dellit
Workers at Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley No. 1 mine voted on February 2 to continue their fight against the company's attempt to de-unionise the mine. The three-hour stop-work meeting
By Jon Land
A group of Dayaks, the indigenous people of Kalimantan in Indonesia, are on a tour of Australia to promote solidarity with their struggle for land rights and compensation from Australian-based mining companies. These companies account
By Claudette Bégin
On January 29, a nail-studded bomb killed a guard and seriously injured a nurse at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. It had appeared to be a normal day at the New Woman All Women Health Clinic. An anti-abortion
Talking about prejudice
China DollsWritten and directed by Tony AyresProduced by Helen BowdenScreens on ABC-TV, February 19, 9pm Review by Pip Hinman
This half-hour doco on racial stereotyping and discrimination within the gay community raises
Mandela to address Rio Tinto unions
South African President Nelson Mandela is to meet with trade union leaders whose members are employed by Rio Tinto, the world's biggest minerals company and renowned for its anti-union stand. Rio Tinto also has a
ACT's socialist alternative
By Chris Spindler
CANBERRA — The Democratic Socialist candidates for the February 21 ACT election launched their policies on February 5. Tim Gooden, one of three Democratic Socialist candidates for Molonglo,
Aircraft noise
SYDNEY — More than 1200 residents gave the thumbs down to the Sydney Airport Noise Plan at a public meeting in the inner west suburb of Ashfield on February 2. The meeting was organised by "Save our Skies" (SOS), formed last
World's best practice
We live in strange times. It now can be revealed that there has been in existence for the past year a body known as the Commission of Inquiry into the Inordinate Increase of Bludgers.
Some months ago this body sent out
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