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.
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East Timor resistance stands firm
By Jon Land
Student and youth activists in East Timor have shown their determination by staging a series of spirited pro-independence rallies. Protest actions beginning on May 4 lasted five days, the largest
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Two men who took part in the Patrick lockout dispute as Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) members last year, former Queensland branch organiser Bob Carnegie and union activist Mick Fulton, spoke to 30 people after a
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,
By Chris Latham
Since West Papua was transferred from Dutch to Indonesian control in 1963, the region has been subject to continuous human rights violations by the Indonesian regime and its armed forces. In 1969, the Indonesian regime organised a
Protesters blockade Timbarra road
TENTERFIELD — More than 100 protesters opposed to Ross Mining's Timbarra goldmine have set up three blockades on the access road between Tenterfield and the mine site.
The blockade is a combined effort by
Staff win at Victoria University
By Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — Management at the Victoria University of Technology have backed down in the face of a National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) campaign against censorship. On April 12, three
In a paper presented to the Australian Institute of Family Studies conference in late 1998, Kate Rodgers from the parenting branch of the Department of Family and Community Services and her co-director Karen Wilson presented their views on how
Massive destruction
"As the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia enters its second month" wrote correspondent Michael Dobbs in the April 25 Washington Post, "allied bombing has achieved one significant result: the destruction of large chunks of the
Anti-nuclear campaigning
Greg Adamson's anti-nuclear movement history is wonderful, so many memories come back. Every paragraph deserves to be amplified. Could you provide a special space for readers' recollections?
The reference to the Perth
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
By Eva Cheng
In Japan's once-in-four-year local elections, which ended in late April, the Japan Communist Party (JCP) won 2412 seats, 278 more than in 1995, bringing its total seats in local governments (including those not up for election this
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