UNITED STATES: Elian's return home a step closer
UNITED STATES: Elian's return home one step closer
A ruling by a US appeals court on June 1 may mean that kidnapped six-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez, forced to remain in the Unites States, may
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BY DOUGLAS WALKER
PERTH — Toxic waste has been dumped at the Kelvin Road dump site in Gosnells, in Perth's outer south-eastern suburbs, according to the Contaminated Sites Alliance. CSA spokesperson Lee Bell said dioxins, one of the most toxic
Teach-in provides motives for September protests
BY JO BROWN
MELBOURNE — The fact that the World Economic Forum was amongst the architects of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) provides reason enough to protest against it, 100 participants at a
Waterfront conflict staged
FrontA Melbourne Workers' Theatre productionWritten and directed by Peter HoughtonTheatre Works, Acland Street, St KildaJune 14 to July 1Tickets $20/$13Bookings (03) 9534 3388 By Anne O'Casey
When writer/director Peter
Police withdraw charge against Aboriginal academic
BY BILL MASON
POLICE HAVE dropped charges against a prominent Aboriginal academic whom they strip-searched and jailed after she allegedly accused a police officer of "acting like the Ku Klux
Support the right to organise
On May 29, the Federal Court fined two union officials $20,000 each for refusing to apologise to the court after being found guilty of contempt.
The court had earlier found Dean Mighell and Craig Johnston, both
The following is abridged from an account of the situation in Mindanao distributed on May 29 by the Revolutionary Workers Party of the Philippines. The situation in Mindanao, and the Philippines as a whole, is becoming worse, politically and
World Bank's pipeline to disaster
BY SEAN HEALY
Having given up on getting the World Bank to comply with even its own environmental and social development policies, 200 non-government organisations from 55 countries have called for the
Developments in International Socialists' debate list
The last issue of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly reported on a factional debate within the International Socialist Tendency and the establishment of an email list to distribute information and discuss the
West Papua: Strong Support for independence
A congress on May 29-June 4 in Jayapura city, West Papua, has called
for steps to forge an independent West Papua. The Morning Star flag, banned
symbol of West Papuan independence, was flying every
The final major hurdles to China's attempts to be fully reintegrated into the global capitalist trading system have been removed. In late May, the US House of Representatives granted China permanent "normal trade relations" status and a bilateral
The overthrow of the Fiji Labour Party-led government "is not a struggle between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians" BRIJ LAL, a professor of history at the Australian National University and a director of the ANU's Centre for the Contemporary
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