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By Sue Njanji Matetakufa HARARE — More than six months after Zimbabwe's Supreme Court shocked equal rights campaigners worldwide by relegating African women to the status of "junior males" within the family, many Zimbabweans are worried about the
The dictatorship of US$ and Wall Street The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World DominanceBy Peter GowanVerso, 1999320 pp., $39.95 Review by Eva Cheng Guns and tanks are usually very visible, but those who control the world also do
Gay and lesbian pride springs out By Kim Bullimore and Simon Tayler CANBERRA — The ACT's first Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival — Spring Out — included a rally and march on November 13, attended by 300 people. The rally was addressed by,
By Rohan Pearce and Nikki Ulasowski HOBART — Recent articles in the Murdoch-owned Mercury are an example of how the media can reinforce racist myths and whip up nationalism. The government's crackdown on "boat people" has been an excuse for the
Vegetarianism I was disappointed to read an article (GLW #383) condemning vegetarianism as politically specious. It is divisive to do so, considering that there are a lot of vegetarians in social change movements, and "splitting the camp" is surely
By Raul Cienfuegos There has been much discussion in Colombia about the "peace" dialogue between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) and the government. After decades of unsuccessfully trying to wipe out left-wing
By Grant Coleman PERTH — After striking for 96 hours, hospital worker members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union have won a 5% pay rise and are now entering into arbitration. Five hundred orderlies, caterers and patient
Government backs away from nuclear reactor rhetoric By Jim Green When the federal government decided to fund the construction of a new nuclear "research" reactor in 1997, it faced a difficult public relations exercise. The government decided to
Why work is getting harder By Jonathan Singer "Reasonable hours are safer hours", the ACTU declared during its October 25-29 national campaign publicising the health and safety dangers of longer working hours. The dangerous hours campaign
A matter of life or death The national crisis in public health care was dramatised last week when emergency wards in at least five public hospitals in Sydney were closed to all patients except those with life-threatening conditions. "You don't get
Kids rally against violence WILCANNIA — Fifteen children and young people marched through Wilcannia on October 28 as part of the town's first Reclaim the Night rally. Staff from the Women's Safehouse and the Far West Ward Aboriginal Health
East Timor Solidarity Aid Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) is launching Timor Solidarity Aid to provide material assistance to people's power-based activism in East Timor. Strength in organising, campaigning and mobilising