Newsflash from the Past: Tuning in to a New History of the Americas — While the so-called "discovery" of the Americas is celebrated by apologists for imperialism, the Spanish conquest of the "New World" is to be given a wry and informative
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By Karen Fredericks One hundred Greenpeace activists from across Europe chained themselves to the main gates of the French plutonium reprocessing factory on the morning of October 14. Their aim was to alert the world to the danger posed by
Greens to contest federal election in NSW SYDNEY — "NSW Greens are gearing up for the upcoming federal election", according to a spokesperson, Mark Berriman. "We feel that we need to give the federal parliament an increased green presence so
By Allen Jennings MANAGUA — The Third Continental Meeting of Indigenous, Black and Grassroots Resistance was held here October 7-12. Delegates from the Miskito, Mapuche, Quechua, Aymara, Sumu, Aleut, Maya and Eskimo communities (to name just
The Last Days of Chez Nous Directed by Gillian Armstrong Screenplay by Helen Garner Starring Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz, Kerry Fox and Miranda Otto Reviewed by Lee Wallace Some films have such an effect that you leave the cinema slightly
Serbia's war According to Justin Starchevic (Write on, October 7), "Milosevic should help Bosnian Serbs in their civil war for the same reason that Australia always helped Britain and America in their wars". Good comparison. As socialists, we
Manufacturing Consent A film directed by Mark Achbar Canada, 1992 Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen Noam Chomsky is famous for a revolutionary development in the theory of language. In the late 1950s, he argued that there was a basic grammatical
Money better spent We don't know the final bill for the extra 18 F-111s, but surely there are better things to spend it on in this period of high employment and straining welfare, health and education systems? The Sydney-based People for Nuclear
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