I want you to understand my life and my vanishing identityhaving lost the meaning of my life — now I survive ...it is like being a child again
I am trying to tell you my needs while I am learning to speak againI am discovering my new world and
474
HOBART — The socialist youth group Resistance organised a successful "Rock Against War" on December 1, with the support of local "original bands" opposed to the US-led "war on terrorism". Pictured is Lab A.
Photo by Alex Bainbridge.From Green
BY DAVID BACON
After the leader of their union was shot down at the gate into the plant where they worked, Edgar Paez and his co-workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Carepa, Colombia, tried for four years to get the country's courts to bring
BY NORM DIXON
The first of an expected 1100 US marines began landing in southern Afghanistan on November 25, ferried from US ships in the Arabian Sea and equipped with helicopter gunships, artillery, armoured vehicles and Harrier jump jets. As they
Elites
Lately we've heard a lot of criticism of "the elite". Strangely, much of this criticism has come from members of the right-wing media and political elite.
If the complaint against "elite" opinion is that it's wrong, the fact that it's
BY VIV MILEY
George Bush has said that anyone who "houses and supports terrorists" is themselves a terrorist — so maybe people should take a look in the US president's own backyard to find one.
Fort Benning, Georgia, is the site of the US's
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
More people die in work-related accidents than on roads each year in this country. According to the construction workers' union, as many as 30% of employers underpay their insurance premiums.
In June, New South Wales was rocked
It's A Groove Thing!Rosie LedetMaison De Soul Records<http://www.floydsrecords.com>
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
ALBUQUERQUE — It's a hot summer night at a south-west juke-joint. Rosie Ledet is on stage. Her head cocked to the right, black
BY EWAN SAUNDERS
The report into violence in Aboriginal communities in Cape York, presented by Tony Fitzgerald, has opened the floodgate of "causes" and "solutions" to the alcoholism crisis that has faced indigenous Australians since white
The United Nations General Assembly, for the 10th consecutive year, voted overwhelmingly on November 27 for an end to the US economic blockade against Cuba
The vote was 167 to 3, identical to last year's record vote. Only the United States, Israel
BY LEIGH HUGHES
CANBERRA — For months "Fort Badja" has been a base of operations for environmentalists seeking to stop the logging of New South Wales' south-east forests. But that changed on November 20, when 30 police removed six forest
BY NORM DIXON
When the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party seized power in Afghanistan in April 1978, its membership was probably under 10,000 and mostly concentrated in the major cities. To mobilise broader support for the revolution and to help
- Page 1
- Next page