By Steve Painter Since 1984, the New Zealand economy, already staggering because of its loss of traditional export markets for primary products, has been brought to its knees by New Right policies similar to those proposed in the Australian
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Green Ban Fusiliers em = By Denis Kevans Chorus: Up Broadway to the MBA come the green ban fusiliers, They stole the street, with their striding feet, placards high above their ears, Move over squire, in the black maria, are there any season
By Helen Leonard The Women's Electoral Lobby is celebrating 20 years of work and achievement on behalf of Australian women. WEL burst onto the national political scene in 1972. Its founders were women inspired by the women's liberation
By Tom Flanagan HOBART — An alliance of 13 powerful business groups has called for a vote for either the Liberal or Labor parties in the February 1 state election. The alliance, which includes the state Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of
By John C. Brittain PORT-AU-PRINCE — "There will be no real Christmas here this year", says the owner of an elegant hilltop hotel with a scenic view of this Haitian capital. The innkeeper is speaking of the unstable political and economic
By Michael Schembri The gay and lesbian communities of Sydney have been mobilising against violence over several years. Dykes on Bikes, and others on foot, patrol Darlinghurst streets. Thousands of whistles have been distributed, to be blown as
By Craig Cormick In the approximately four minutes it takes to read this article, 100 children will have died from preventable diseases. Are the deaths of 13 million children each year tolerable as we enter our much heralded, and yet
Greenpeace pursues whaler The Greenpeace vessel Greenpeace is pursuing the mother ship of the four-vessel Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic Ocean. Greenpeace activists intend to disrupt the fleet's whaling activities, supposedly carried
By Phil Shannon The announcement of the world's first sustained nuclear fusion reaction in England on November 10 was greeted with silence on the left, but it is worth asking whether it deserves our plaudits or placards. Nuclear fission
By Emlyn Jones Jaime Tadeo, "Ka Jimmy", is the chairperson of the KMP, the peasant movement of the Philippines. He is currently in prison, serving an 18-year sentence on frame-up charges. In 1979 Tadeo resigned from his job in the National
US gay and lesbian solidarity with Cuba By Kim Spurway "The struggle for lesbian and gay liberation must be a struggle against racism, poverty and sexism. It is a struggle for equal access to health care, education and human rights. I believe
By Sean Malloy After months of discussion and preparation, on December 1 a group of new and alternative parties formed a red-green Alliance that could become New Zealand's next government if early opinion poll results hold up. "The seeds of
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