By Michael Connors
Thumthong Phoirit recently visited Australia as part of the Thai delegation to the Australian Asia Worker Links conference, Workers Can Change the World. She told her story to a meeting of the Victorian Trades Hall Council on
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COSATU calls general strike
The Council of South African Trade Unions Central Executive Committee has voted to hold a general strike on November 15, a week before parliament is scheduled to approve South Africa's interim constitution.
The
Sunday night in Brunswick
By Sean Lennon
MELBOURNE — Every Sunday night in Brunswick, music cooperative "One C One" puts on concerts at the Mechanics Institute. One C One provides music which is non-commercial and acoustic and caters to a
By Mike Karadjis
SYDNEY — Representatives of more than 20 community and youth organisations have voted to cut off all joint activity with the police throughout the Fairfield-Cabramatta area following incidents of abuse of police power. These
Women victims of Kennett's cuts
By Elle Morrell
MELBOURNE — Public opinion polls have consistently recorded a much higher disapproval of the Victorian government from women than from men. Fifty-nine per cent of women the latest Saulwick
By Vivienne Porzsolt
SYDNEY — Human rights are at the core of a real settlement to the conflicts in the Middle East, said Dr Gabi Baramki, the president of Bir Zeit University, at a public meeting on October 13.
Bir Zeit University is a
Lesbians celebrate in Brisbane
By Carolyn Ride
BRISBANE — Lesbians, gay men and supportive heterosexuals celebrated International Lesbian Day, October 10, with a public mock wedding in Post Office Square.
Deni and Solange,
By Marc Purcell
In May, the clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss announced that, because of gross human rights violations, the company would cease all operations in Burma.
The All Burma Student Democratic Front and the dissident Federation of
By Max Lane
Important 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) have joined the break from the Stalinist politics of the CPP's past. The regional committee of the Negros CPP, the democratic bloc of the Panay regional party
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — New Zealand brewing giant Lion Nathan bugged, spied upon, videoed and photographed union meetings of workers during a recent dispute at its Tooheys plant here recently.
Criminal lawyer and Sun-Herald columnist
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — When Russian citizens elected new people's deputies in the spring of 1990, they believed they were laying the basis for democratic change. And when the deputies elected Yeltsin chairperson of the Supreme Soviet,
The Nostradamus Kid
A film by Bob Ellis
Starring Noah Taylor and Miranda Otto
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
This is one of those films that annoys some people, intrigues others and makes some people laugh a lot. The subject matter of The
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