By Katie Hepworth On November 6 the first full-length edition of Student Underground was sent out to schools all over NSW. The newspaper was produced by the Secondary Student Anti-Nuclear Network (SSAN) and joins a large number of student papers that
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East Timor: Genocide in ParadiseBy Matthew Jardine with introduction by Noam ChomskyOdonian Press, 1995Reviewed by Jon Lamb Matthew Jardine is a US-based journalist and researcher who visited East Timor in July 1992, six months after the Dili
Four leading members of Mexico's ruling elite have been assassinated over the past two years. Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and six other people died in a gun battle at Guadalajara's Miguel Hidalgo international airport
By Paul Oboohov Assistant federal treasurer George Gear puts the government's line on national competition policy: it's about cutting business costs and creating a competitive and consumer-driven culture and would increase productivity leading to
By Jennifer Thompson The proclamations by governments and the media of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as a courageous "peacemaker" are not surprising given his Nobel peace prize, shared with his replacement, Israeli Foreign Minister
By John Percy The Communist Party of Australia developed a strong base in important industrial unions during the 1930s. As the depression eased, CPA members recruited from the unemployed and trained in action through the struggles of the Depression,
Transitions: New Australian FeminismsEdited by Barbara Caine and Rosemary PringleAllen & Unwin, 1995. 237 pp., $24.95 (pb)Reviewed by Carla Gorton Women's studies texts are no longer dowdy looking books your eyes skim over on the library or bookshop
A development parable The World Bank decides to sponsor a developmental project in a Third World country. The project initially forcibly removes the peasants from land. A small wealthy group of neo-entrepreneurs/farmers move in to grow a cash crop
By Jen Crothers On October 24, 15-year-old Anna Wood died. She had an allergic reaction to something, probably heroin, cut into the ecstasy she'd taken days before. NSW premier Bob Carr and the media have launched a hypocritical hype festival over
BALI, Indonesia — On November 8, an international ecumenical delegation was expelled from East Timor. The delegation, which included Namibian MP Daniel Botha, Brian Brown of Freedom House, Australian Aboriginal poet Lionel Fogerty, Australian
UN condemns US embargo on Cuba again For the fourth year in a row, the UN General Assembly voted on November 2 in favour of a resolution to condemn the US embargo on Cuba. Only the US, Israel and Uzbekistan voted against the resolution. One
By Dom Bromilow John Ondawarme and Matthew Jamieson spoke about the movement for a free West Papua at a November 7 meeting, co-sponsored by Resistance and the Australia West Papua Association. They said that, while the establishment media had largely
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