BY DALE T. McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — Prior to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, the labour movement here did not give much thought to the specific political, social and economic role that it might play in the new dispensation. If
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In early March the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aided the Macedonian army's crackdown on the Albanian insurgents of the National Liberation Army (NLA). This followed the agreement between NATO and the Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica to allow Yugoslav troops into the Serbia-Kosova buffer zone to crush autonomy-seeking Albanian rebels.
BY WESLEY MORGAN
LISMORE — A lively crowd of 150 spoke out against corporate globalisation and marched through the streets here on April 28. The action was the first May Day celebration to be held in the region.
It was a colourful protest, with
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
SYDNEY Students at the University of Sydney are outraged at an
unprecedented move by the university administration to prevent activists
from publicising a public protest, the May 1 stock exchange blockade, and
have
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Four prisoners who had sought to prevent Queensland Police from taking compulsory DNA samples have had their legal bid dismissed in the Supreme Court on April 27. They plan to appeal.
The prisoners' argued that they
BY VANYA TANAJA
DILI — Thousands of small traders at the Dili market (Mercado Lama) are being pressured to move to two refurbished markets in Comoro and Becora, on the western and eastern outskirts of the city respectively.
The traders have
Larry Kirwan is best known as leader/song-writer of Irish-American rebel-rockers Black 47.
BY SEAN HEALY
Special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on April 21
raided the premises of the Seattle
Independent Media Center, after security plans for the Summit of the
Americas were posted on its web site.
FBI agents
Three Days of RainBy Richard GreenbergSydney Theatre CompanyWharf Theatre, Walsh Bay, SydneyUntil May 13
REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH
The southern belle makes a welcome return to modern US theatre in this mid-'90s play by prolific New York playwright
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — More than 1500 workers, led by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union members, and supported by unions affiliated to the NSW Labor Council, marched to state parliament on April 27 to protest against the state Labor
BY KENNY BRUNO
SAN FRANCISCO — The winner of the Winter Greenwash Award is Philip Morris, the largest US-based tobacco corporation, for its "Working to make a difference" television ad campaign.
The commercials tell us moving stories of real
BY SARAH STEPHEN& RUPEN SAVOULIAN
PERTH — Thirty-five people held a spirited protest outside the immigration detention centre at Perth airport on April 21. The protest was organised by the Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN). The protesters
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