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Everyone does it "Everyone here is guilty from time to time of using other people's words." — Liberal MP Richard Evans, caught delivering a long speech to parliament which turned out to be a magazine article by US commentator Peter Drucker.
By Eva Cheng Chinese women in the key industrial city of Wuhan, Hubei province, are forced to pay heavy fines and write "self-criticism" if found to have lost their virginity before marriage, according to a China News Digest dispatch on May 15. A
A breach in the blockade A partial victory in the fight to end Washington's immoral blockade against Cuba was won on May 26, when the US Treasury Department released more than 300 computers it had seized to prevent them from going to health
June 5 is World Environment Day. Over the last decade, consciousness about the need to protect the environment has grown to the extent that, these days, youth in particular are clear that humankind can either have an adverse or a benign impact on the
By John Percy Nick Origlass, a central figure in the history of the Trotskyist movement in Australia, died on May 17 at the age of 88 with more than 60 years of political activity on the side of the working class behind him. Origlass was born in
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm. Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
By Najib Farraj The Alternative Information Centre has recently published the first comprehensive study on Palestinian refugees, written by three Palestinian scholars, Bilal Shakhsheer, Waheed Qirsh and Nayef Jredat. The authors claim that the
By Jamie Parkerand Maung Maung Than Big companies such as CRA and BHP come to mind as examples of multinational destruction and exploitation. Yet in Burma, smaller companies are playing a significant part in legitimising and resourcing the
By Norm Dixon The representation of Tahiti's leading independence party, Tavini Huiraatira (Polynesian Liberation Front), was significantly boosted following recent elections for the Territorial Assembly. While the pro-French forces led by Gaston
The May 30 national strike called by the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU) and supported by the National Union of Students and other student and community groups sent a very clear message to the Coalition government: increase
By Sarah Harris SYDNEY — Eighty people gathered to express their solidarity with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) against attacks by the Coalition government at a May 30 meeting at the Teachers Federation. The speakers were Warren Smith,
By Lisa Macdonald If more proof was needed of the falsity of the federal Coalition's claim that its proposal to privatise Telstra is motivated by a concern for the environment, its move to allow an expansion of woodchip exports provides it. The