By Pip Hinman
On June 29, more than 15,000 people took part in a "flotilla for peace" demonstration in Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, in protest at the French government's decision to resume testing at Moruroa.
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Community radio rally
ADELAIDE — On June 21, local bands, students, political activists, migrant groups and many others made up a 400-strong crowd on the steps of Parliament House to show their support for community radio. Annual funding of
[This is the slightly abridged text of a talk given at a public forum in Sydney on June 6. The author, JOHN PERCY, is national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party.]
The campaign against the Vietnam War here developed in similar ways to
A response to Reihana Mohideen by Irwin Silber
The narrow vision informing Reihana Mohideen's comment on my book, Socialism: What Went Wrong? (91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, April 12) came as something of a surprise to me. From various reports I had been led to
CPSU delegates fight budget cuts
By Peter Webster
From July 3, many DSS workplaces around Australia will be "downsized". The federal government has slashed the budget for 1995-96 and, despite concerns raised by members, the national and
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You may have noticed that this week's 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly pages are a little smaller — about one centimetre shorter than usual. This is due to a newsprint shortage which has left our printer with insufficient quantities of
The Tricks of the Trade
By Dario Fo
Methuen. 224 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Acting is taken so much for granted. So much of the culture we enjoy now depends on the ability of individuals to delude us into thinking they are someone
A unique conference
In the first week of July, hundreds of young women will be gathering again at the Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA) conference in Melbourne. The conference has been held annually since 1987, when an enterprising
During a panel discussion entitled "Women, Race and Class" held at the Marxist Educational Conference in Sydney over Easter, KAREN FLETCHER, feminist activist and former GLW journalist, took up the issue of where feminism is at in the 1990s, and what
On June 30 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that it had no jurisdiction to decide on Portugal's challenge to the Indonesia-Australia Timor Gap Treaty. This, the court said, was because it could not decide on the nature of
By Lisa Macdonald
Three weeks after the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing at Moruroa atoll, pressure is mounting on the federal government to act in accordance with the widespread public opposition to the tests.
Not for
In by-elections in June for the Community and Public Sector Union, one of the country's largest unions, GREG ADAMSON was elected ACT assistant secretary on the ticket of CPSU Challenge. STEVE ROGERS spoke to him for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
What does
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