By Stephen Marks
HAVANA — 1995 has been declared the International Year of Jos‚ Mart¡ and October 8 the possible date of a World Day in Solidarity with Cuba. These were among proposals adopted by the plenary session of the World Conference in
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By Alex Bainbridge
— Several unions have threatened to withdraw election funding to the ALP head office unless it agrees to hold a rank and file preselection ballot for the seat of Peats, on the central coast of NSW.
Peats became vacant
NOAM CHOMSKY's January 19 press conference in Sydney covered a range of topics. JOHN TOGNOLINI, who covered the conference for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly and Radio Skid Row, here provides excerpts from Chomsky's answers to a number of questions. Chomsky
A blend of echoes
Echoes Under the Bridge: new world music from BEMAC
Reviewed by Robyn Marshall
This is a new CD from BEMAC, Brisbane's ethnic music centre, the result of a residency and workshops led by Lindsey Pollak over a four-month
By Faruk Avdi
MELBOURNE — "Sustainable forestry — has come to mean the sustenance of a small number of large timber corporations involved in the chipping and pulpwood sectors ... a principal theme of the industry to preserve — or 'sustain'
Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives
Edited by Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan
Pluto Press, 1994. 368 pp.
Reviewed by Bernie Brian
All of the articles in this collection were first presented at the "Suffrage and
ALP and Lenin
It is good that Jim McIlroy (GLW 171) has conceded that working in the ALP may be of some use, even if it is to be a "subsidiary tactic".
The use of an article written [by Lenin] in 1916 to resolve a tactical question in 1995
St Kilda Writers Festival
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — The beachside suburb of St Kilda is well known for its bohemian, slightly seedy atmosphere and associated in the popular mind with the artistic and eccentric. It seems a logical
By Pip Hinman
In the current debate over woodchipping old growth forests, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the union movement had taken a unanimous position in support of the government's pro-woodchipping policy. This is not the case. The
By Dr Chesterfield-Evans
Probably the most significant paper at the 9th World Conference on Smoking and Health, held in Paris October 10-14, was the presentation by Richard Peto of the latest results of the study of smoking and death rates in
Political journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal is facing execution in the state of Pennsylvania in what could become the most explicitly political legal slaying since the 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage.
Committees for the
BRISBANE — For two and a half months, 17 Central American workers, mostly from El Salvador, have been on strike protesting against racial discrimination on the job. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's ZANNY BEGG spoke to Jorge Rodriguez, Salvador Ramos and Juan
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