Venting my spleen
I cannot claim to possess oodles of imagination. But I have my moments. Sometimes I can envisage such bizarre delights that I can entertain myself for hours. Perhaps I really am a creative type person. An artist. A political
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Herri Batasuna: for independence and socialism
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's CHOW WEI CHENG spoke to MIRIAN CAMPOS, from the international department of the left-wing Basque nationalist party Herri Batasuna, about recent developments in the Basque country
South African workers confront 'comrade ministers'
By Norm Dixon
South African worker militants struggling against the African National Congress (ANC) government's austere economic policies, privatisations and job losses are discovering an
By Jim Green
Pacific islanders are organising to stop the passage of plutonium reactor fuel from Europe to Japan through South Pacific waters. Two ships carrying mixed uranium-plutonium (MOX) fuel will pass through the Tasman Sea in late August or
The following is abridged from a statement by the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). US trade unionists demonstrated outside Texaco's Washington office on July 30 to protest against labour and human
Inside the Celtic Tiger — The Irish Economy and the Asian ModelBy Denis O'HearnPluto Press, London1998, 216pp. Review by Garret Mullan
"Dublin is the new Paris" was the title of a recent article in the Observer newspaper. Ireland is a centre of
Virtually perfect?
Reading about Webbie Tookay, the new "internet model", engineered to eradicate the need for "real" women to model clothes on the internet, I recalled a cartoon I saw many years ago when I was first noticing, and becoming
Pilger film a hit
ADELAIDE — The premiere screening on July 31 of John Pilger's latest documentary, The Timor Conspiracy, was a huge success. The 200-seat Mercury Cinema was filled. About 40 people had to be turned away.
The crowd responded
Washington, Canberra hope to disarm Falintil
By Jon Land
Falintil, the armed wing of the East Timorese resistance, is under renewed pressure to disarm. Although Falintil has upheld a unilateral cease-fire and abided by security guidelines called
By Jonathan Singer
Protests called by the ACTU against Reith's "second wave" of anti-union laws ("A Bill to amend the Workplace Relations Act" — WRA) have begun, with rallies in Perth on August 10, Adelaide on August 11 and Melbourne on August
Frida Kahlo's microscope of the psyche
Frida: A Biography of Frida KahloBy Hayden Herrera Bloomsbury, 1998507 pp, $35.00 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
As Frida Kahlo was returning home from school one day in 1925 in Mexico City, a tram crashed into
Shared space #4
By Brandon Astor Jones
This is the fourth in a series of poems that I feel the need to share here. In essence this space has belonged to the author of each poem. It is my hope that readers have been as moved by them as I am. A
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