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Burmese students continue the fight for democracy

By Jon Lamb Students in Burma have played a major role in the fight for human rights and democracy throughout the decades of turmoil that have racked Burmese politics. Students led the waves of anti-government protests which swept across Burma

Darwin anti-nuclear campaign

Darwin anti-nuclear campaign By Tom Flanagan DARWIN — An information stall in Darwin's Raintree Park on July 1 collected hundreds of signatures on petitions opposing nuclear testing. This was the first of a series of public actions in

Law and order, environment feature in Queensland election

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Law and order and the environment are becoming the main battlegrounds over which the Queensland state election on July 15 is being fought. Labor and the National-Liberal Coalition are competing over who has the

Haiti election fiasco

Haiti election fiasco The US-sponsored local and parliamentary elections that took place in Haiti on June 25 were a fiasco. Polling booths failed to open, voters' names were not on the electoral register, official candidates did not appear on

For a nuclear-free and independent Pacific

SUSANNA OUNEI-SMALL is assistant director (decolonisation) of the Suva-based Pacific Concerns Resource Centre, which serves as the secretariat of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement. She is also an activist in the Kanaky (New Caledonia)

Networking

91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly was established on the principle of networking between activists involved in campaigns — for the environment, for women's liberation, for lesbian and gay rights and many others. The coverage that 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ gives to these issues

Russian no-confidence vote points to fresh battles

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — The Budyonnovsk hostage crisis soon merged into the most ominous constitutional stand-off in Russia since October 1993. The political battle opened up on June 21 when the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian

Twenty years later: still fighting for abortion rights

[A panel on the issue of women, race and class was held at the Marxist Educational Conference in Sydney over Easter. KAMALA EMANUEL, an activist in the Newcastle Decriminalise Abortion Campaign and a Democratic Socialist Party member, spoke on the

Write on: letters to the editor

Write on: letters to the editor Tarkine I am replying to Kevin Parker's letter (GLW #191) in response to an article I wrote (GLW #189) on the Tarkine. The article quoted an activist from the Tarkine Tigers criticising the Wilderness Society

Ambulance privatisation costs lives

Ambulance privatisation costs lives By Sean Healy MELBOURNE — The impact of the Kennett state government's cuts to ambulance services and privatisation of the dispatch service has been felt here in recent weeks. On June 19, a

A brilliant return for Piaf

Piaf: The Songs and Story in Concert With Jeannie Lewis The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, until Aug 1. Reviewed by Francesca Davidson Piaf is brilliant. Directed by Ted Robinson, the show played in the 1980s to rave reviews, and the 1995

News briefs

Irons for prisoners Prisoners chained in leg-irons at Barwon prison are considering action against the Victorian Department of Correctional Services on the basis that the use of leg-irons is an abuse of human rights. The Victorian Criminal Justice