Strike-wave in eastern Europe
By Frank Noakes
On the eve of the settlement of a two-week strike by east Germany's engineering union, Romanian and Polish workers are walking out. Thirty thousand Romanian steelworkers began strike action on
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Sexual harassment: legal in Tasmania?
By Joy McEntee
HOBART — Women are having their rage refurbished daily by the Mercury newspaper. Every edition carries a peep show style update on the case brought against Hobart City Council by a
Against Therapy
By Jeffrey Masson
London: Fontana. 1990
Final Analysis
By Jeffrey Masson
London: Fontana. 1992
Reviewed by Chris Slee
Jeffrey Masson is a former psychoanalyst who began to question the theory and practice. He was
By Jana D.K. in Jakarta
and Mitchell Hamilton in Sydney
East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court in Dili on May 21. The three judges found him guilty of separatism, rebellion,
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Among many of Russia's self-proclaimed democrats, the usual rhetoric of the need to defend "democracy" against "communist revanchism" was suddenly turned off in mid-May. In its place appeared an embarrassed,
By Peter Boyle
Since the Australian High Court delivered its judgement in Eddie Mabo & Others vs the State of Queensland nearly a year ago, opinions on the meaning of this decision have multiplied. One sort of opinion, however, has had a
Trovador
Africando
Stern's through Sandstock
Celebration — The Best of Osibisa
AIM Records through Larrikin
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
The development of modern African music is fascinating and complex. Indigenous African music
People's Party win 'best option'
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — "The best case scenario" in the current Cambodian elections "would be a clear win for the Cambodian People's Party", Daryl Bullen told a Democratic Socialist forum here on
By Geoff Spencer
and Liz McMurrich
PERTH — workers at the Westrail Midland Workshop, which the state Liberal government intends to close, set up a 24-hour picket line on May 20 to prevent the movement of freight trains; 24 were stopped.
The rich and their apologists
Business Review Weekly last week published its list of the richest 200 people in Australia, pleased to announce that their combined fortunes have increased in the past 12 months by 10.9%, to $21.3 billion.
Abortion and health
A call for a sixth International Day of Action for Women's Health on May 28 has been made by the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights. This year the focus is on action against illegal abortion, one of the most
Namibian elections seen as warning for South Africa
By Melanie Sjoberg
The experiences of the elections in Namibia provide important lessons for the upcoming process in South Africa, Joe Kapaanda told an Adelaide Politics in the Pub
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