The rise and undermining of anti-nuclear political action
By Greg Adamson
Anti-nuclear forces in the Pacific region suffered two significant onslaughts in 1985. In April in Australia, an unholy alliance united to attack the young Nuclear
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Castro: 'Force is no solution'
Following are excerpts from a speech by Cuba's President Fidel Castro to a mass rally in the University of Havana on May 4. Brutal and destructive air strikes are taking place in the very heart of Europe, which are
By Wendy Robertson
Resistance has decided to organise, along with other feminist students, a range of workshops for this year's Network of Women Students of Australia conference (July 16-20 in Melbourne) covering issues which have not so far been
In the days following NATO's May 7 bombing of China's Belgrade embassy, Beijing mobilised hundreds of thousands of students in protests in nearly 20 Chinese cities.
By Nurullah Ozbek
On May 31, the trial of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan will begin in Turkey. Ocalan faces the death penalty for "treason" — that is, for leading the Kurdish people's struggle for their national rights. The
A day in the life on Georgia's death row #2
By Brandon Astor Jones
Georgia prison administrators routinely torture prisoners with water. Situated near the exercise yard's door — which is open more often than not — the shower is reduced to
By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — More than 2000 people opposed to the proposed Pelican Point power station rallied in Semaphore on May 9 at a protest organised by Community Action for Pelican Point (CAPP). CAPP has been picketing the power station
Lessons of the Longford gas explosion
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — At the end of April, final submissions were presented to the royal commission into the gas explosion and fire at Esso's Longford facility in the Latrobe Valley. The Victorian
The following statement was issued by the Zapatista National Liberation Front in Mexico on March 20. The bombardment decided on by the new lords of war and money led by the forces of NATO is not aimed at protecting the rights of the Kosovar people,
Union leader arrested in Nigeria
In the early hours of April 25, Lagos National Union of Journalists leader Lanre Arogundade was taken from his house by plain-clothes police. He is being held at police headquarters in the Oyo state capital, Ibadan.
By Jim Green
The federal budget has angered environmentalists. Funding for environment programs and groups has been reduced, some funding has been tied to the sale of Telstra and funding for environment groups will be conditional on their
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Long-time union and environment activist Davey Thomason has suffered police harassment and may have been sacked from his position as an organiser with the SA branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy
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