Mass arrest of miners
More than 300 striking miners at Placer Pacific's Porgera mine site in the Papua New Guinea highlands were arrested after they began an indefinite strike on April 14. The workers were later released because the local police
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Apartheid is dead. In South Africa's first democratic elections, the people have voted overwhelmingly for a process of radical change.
The elections register and consolidate the political transformation already won through mass action by
By Jon Singer
CANBERRA 鈥� The PSU Activists Conference held here on April 23-24 was "very positive", according to Maree Roberts, PSU National Challenge candidate for PSU national secretary. "The conference drew together a very broad range of
By Norm Dixon
Extreme racial oppression in South Africa was a product of its brutal colonisation beginning in the mid-1600s, and this became the basis of the growth of South African capitalism.
Apartheid is much more than a system of
SBS soccer feast
SBS television is to broadcast a "feast of soccer" during May in a warm-up for the network's exclusive broadcast of the 1994 World Cup finals in the US during June and July. There will be live international matches and soccer
Newcastle SRC elections
By Shane Bentley
NEWCASTLE 鈥� The progressive "Activate" ticket breathed some life into elections for the Newcastle University Students Representative Council, held April 18-21.
Activate won four out of five
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG 鈥� The Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW), one of the South Africa's two main gay and lesbian rights groups, endorsed the African National Congress in the elections.
GLOW activist Simon
American Music and Popular Culture 鈥� Jazz, Part III 鈥� Bop, Cool, Third-stream, Eclectic. Since the second world war, jazz has had a rich and active history of stylistic change. Bebop redefined the art, reacting to the "excesses" of the previous
By Tom Kelly
Australia is among the industrialised countries that are increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, in violation of international agreement to reduce them.
The Climate Change Convention, negotiated at the United Nations Earth
Reshaping Australia: Urban problems and policies
By Frank Stilwell. Pluto Press. $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Paul Walker
Science fiction has long theorised the never-ending city. Clifford Simak's The City and the Stars and the Ridley Scott cult
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG 鈥� Inexperience, lack of preparation and ineptitude on the part of the Independent Electoral Commission contributed to confusion during the first two days of the election. However, the overriding cause of problems was
Rally against racism
ADELAIDE 鈥� Another rally against racism is to be held on Saturday, May 7, at 11:30 at Barker Gardens (cnr Prospect Rd and Alpha Rd), Prospect.
The rally will build on the success of last month's rally of nearly 1000
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