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Speakers at anti-racism forum miss connections

By Nick Soudakoff CANBERRA — More than 200 people attended the Strategies Against Racism forum at the Workers Club in Canberra on August 23. The forum, coordinated by the Council for Civil Liberties of the ACT, the Ethnic Communities Council

Letter from the US: Government seeks to discredit Teamsters' president

Government seeks to discredit Teamsters' president By Barry Sheppard Ron Carey, president of the Teamsters' Union, which just won a historic strike against United Parcel Service, has won increased respect among teamsters and the

Suharto and his family: The looting of East Timor

By George J. Aditjondro Some people have argued that basically, it is the Indonesian armed forces (ABRI) that do not want to pull out of East Timor, because ABRI would lose face after losing the 22-year war. Very rarely has it been argued

Number of executions doubles

Number of executions doubles By Eva Cheng The number of people executed in China last year to at least 4367, according to Amnesty International. Most were killed with a single gun shot to the back of the head, after staged mass rallies and

Rio Tinto's brutal pedigree

Rio Tinto's brutal pedigree By Mick Watson It is no coincidence that the onslaught on Australian coal miners' rights and conditions is being led by the multinational Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto is demanding that its unionised work force surrender

Life of Riley: Is there a God?

Is there a God? Some thinkers — all locals, all of them conservative, some unruly — have confessed to discerning a striking resemblance between John Howard and the pope. True, resemblances, there are. Both have other names. The

US Teamsters show the way

By James Vassilopoulos The victorious 15-day strike of the US International Brotherhood of Teamsters against the United Parcel Service is an inspiration. It is great to see a union celebrating a real victory and the company with its tail between

Resistance in Iran grows

By Rupen Savoulian The secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the international representative of a coalition of exiled Iranian political organisations, reported rioting in the cities of Nayriz and Abadeh in Fars province,

Unions join employers in nationalist binge

Unions join employers in nationalist binge By James Vassilopoulos SYDNEY — Five thousand workers from the textile, footwear and clothing industries marched to John Howard's office on August 20 to demand no more cuts to tariffs. This

Towards 300

"This special Â鶹´«Ã½ broadsheet has been produced as a response to the Gulf War. Coverage of the war by the mass media has highlighted the need for a real alternative source of news and analysis." Those words introduced Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly to the

State of injustice

By Anthony Benbow PERTH — Philip Vidot died in November 1995. The 14-year-old and his 17-year-old friend Tyron Williams were picked up while hitchhiking by three young men. The three drove them to a park in Perth's southern suburbs, bashed

Community theatre Cuban style

By Penny Glass BRISBANE — Teatro de los Elementos (Theatre of the Elements), founded in 1991, is a community theatre company that works in central Cuba at Cumanayagua in Cienfuegos province. Through its work, communities isolated from urban