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Philippines unions: 'The strike's on'

By Reihana Mohideen MANILA — "The strike's on", announced the leaflet distributed by striking workers here on June 18, as they started their industrial campaign around the demand for comprehensive tax reforms. Some 568 factory-based unions in

Dangers of chemical combinations

By Peter Montague The chemical industry received some extraordinarily bad news in early June. Science magazine published a new study showing that some combinations of hormone-disrupting chemicals are much more powerful than any of the individual

Radio highlights

Catfish Culture — Sarah White has deheaded, gutted, skinned and filleted countless catfish at Delta Pride, the largest catfish processing plant in the world. She also led a 1990 strike at the plant, the largest strike by African-American workers

Apocalypse 1975-79

The Pol Pot regime: race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79By Ben KiernanNew Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 477 pp., $63 (hb)Reviewed by Helen Jarvis As rumours circulate once again about the death of Pol Pot, the

South Africa: privatisation debate heats up

By Norm Dixon South African President Nelson Mandela surprised and disappointed many supporters when, after returning from a trip to Germany to woo foreign investors on May 24, he declared: "Privatisation is the fundamental policy of the ANC, and

Write on: letters to the editor

Mother Teresa Concerning your book review about Mother Theresa! Supposing everything mentioned is 100% true, why was there not one good word about her works? What other individual has accomplished so much with so little! Under such abysmal

$50 billion missing in Latin American scandals

As of April 12, 21 nations had signed the Organisation of American States' (OAS) first regional convention to fight bribery and corruption. An editorial in the Washington Post praised the treaty, which the US and Canada had still not signed: "... For

Fighting bigotry in Tasmania

Late last month, the Tasmanian Legislative Council voted down a gay law reform bill put by the Greens and passed by the Legislative Assembly in early June. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's NATALIE WOODLOCK interviewed RODNEY CROOME, spokesperson for Tasmania's

Moves to democratise Tasmania's upper house

By Sarah Stephen HOBART — The May 25 election of three members of Tasmania's upper house, the Legislative Council, came under the spotlight this year because of the ongoing debate over gay law reform. This year three of the 19 council seats were

Shellcove Marina: a test of ALP policy

By Mairi Petersen SHELLHARBOUR — Since 1983, the right-wing ALP-controlled Shellharbour Council has been determined to build a marina at Shellharbour Beach, about 20 km south of Wollongong. Despite the conflict of such a scheme with stated ALP

Call for lesbian and gay men to fight Howard's attacks

Call for lesbian and gay men to fight Howard's attacks By Samantha Lazzaro and Nick Everett BRISBANE — Four hundred people rallied here on June 29 as part of the annual Pride Festival. The theme of this year's rally and festival was "One

Heads roll in Kremlin

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — In the presidential poll on June 16, Boris Yeltsin gained about 35% of the vote compared with 32 % for his main rival, Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) leader Gennady Zyuganov. Then, within two days,