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Interview with ANC Youth League president South Africa: 'Democracy Now!' By Norm Dixon Peter Mokaba, the fiery president of the African National Congress Youth League, is described by the establishment media as South Africa's radical
Professor JONATHAN MANN, director of the International AIDS Centre at Harvard School of Public Health, delivered an address on the Global Effects of AIDS at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital on March 5. This is an abridged version of his talk.
PERTH — Activists from various humanitarian and political organisations paid their respects to popular Communist leader Chris Hani, and showed their support for the democratic movement in South Africa, at a memorial meeting on April 17 organised
In a series of stories which began on January 15, the San Francisco Examiner revealed a probe by San Francisco police, the FBI and the San Francisco district attorney into the activities of former SF policeman Tom Gerard, who allegedly kept copies
By Sean Malloy The alternative newspaper Broadside has joined Modern Times and Australian Left Review. Its last edition appeared last week. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly spoke to Broadside's editor, Ian Milliss, about the reason for the paper's closure
By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — When independent commercial firms reappeared on the Russian scene a few years back, they naturally enough brought advertising with them. Citizens weren't totally unused to this phenomenon; for years, state
Another triumph for Circus Oz Circus Oz 1993 Artistic direction by Sue Broadway Musical composition by Irene Vela Costume design by Laurel Frank Reviewed by Margarita Windisch Circus Oz, believed by many to be the world's leading
From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences Edited by Connie Barlow The MIT Press, 273 pp. Reviewed by Dave Riley There seems to be a frustrating paucity of informed debate within the environment movement. A
By Karen Fredericks The Oscar-winning US documentary The Panama Deception will screen for the first time in Australia when it begins its run at the Valhalla cinema in Sydney on April 30. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly spoke to the film's producer and
By Catherine Brown Anti-racist activists warned that the new right government of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur would step up attacks on immigrants. Within two weeks of its appointment, four young immigrants were shot by French police. Three
By Pip Hinman MELBOURNE — It seems that the Victorian government is determined to change the current public sector superannuation scheme by July, come hell or high water. While the rhetoric from finance minister Ian Smith has been
Photographs Credits were accidentally omitted on several photographs used in last week's issue. The Cambodian photos on page 3 were from New Internationalist. The picture of Environmental Youth Alliance members on the back cover was by Peter