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World Bank: 50 years is too many

By Lyndall Barnett The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were founded at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, held in the New Hampshire resort of Bretton Woods in July 1944. Designed to regulate the postwar

Protests against 'butcher of Dili'

By Holly Doel and Sujatha Fernandes SYDNEY — Try Sutrisno, commander of the Indonesian armed forces and vice president, arrived here on September 21 on his official visit. It has been suggested that Sutrisno's visit is a trial run for a

Poem: Refugees: Korea, 1951

Poem: Refugees: Korea, 1951 By Ralph Kelly Where are you going, my little friend, What, nowhere to go? No shoes on your feet, Cold in the snow. Where are your parents, my little waif, Well, somewhere up

Inside the Chancellery

Sydney Uni Resistance activist MARINA CARMAN travelled to Canberra last week to participate in the ANU Chancellery occupation, and here describes its success in organising students to campaign against fees. After the first few hours in the

Murder by the state

Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States By Helen Prejean, C.S.J. Harper Collins, 1994. 278 pp., $19.95 Reviewed by Stephanie Wilkinson Whenever a United States death-row prisoner is

The Workers Party and the Brazilian elections

By Mario Marcio Freitas-Nantes In the 25 years following the military coup of 1964, the Brazilian population was progressively marginalised from the decision making that governs Brazilian political and economic life. This was achieved

Passing the hat in Britain

Passing the hat in Britain By Terry Smith News that Oxfam intends to embark on a program of poverty relief in Britain underlines the extent to which the Tories have devastated the welfare state. The charity, best

Toxic Melbourne

Toxic Melbourne By Ben Reid MELBOURNE — Greenpeace released a report here on September 12 detailing the dangerous amounts of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals that are being legally released into Victoria's environment. The

Action updates

BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist Party presented a launch of the magazine Links at a dinner held in the Resistance Centre on September 17. Some 70 people heard speakers from Australian Aid for Ireland, the Latin American solidarity community and

Improvements demanded on coastal conservation

Improvements demanded on coastal conservation By Margaret Allan NEWCASTLE — A resolution proposing an environmentally responsible approach to coastal conservation was adopted by a meeting of more than 600 environmentalists and

Opposition grows to freeway expansion

Opposition grows to freeway expansion By Jeremy Smith MELBOURNE — Three hundred and fifty people attended a demonstration organised by the Coalition Against Freeway Expansion (CAFE) here on September 18. The level of community

Bob Brown: 'Crunch time' for Labor and the forests

BOB BROWN is one of the country's best known environmentalists, and the leader of the Australian Greens. He spoke to JEN CROTHERS in Hobart last month, one day after a successful public meeting in defence of Tasmania's wilderness forests.