No progress in talks on Timor
By Max Lane
The Indonesian and Portuguese foreign ministers and the UN secretary-general met in Rome on April 27 to discuss East Timor.
The first round of these talks, held in New York in December,
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By Max Lane
The assembly of Serb chauvinists operating in conquered 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of Bosnia and Croatia rejected the Vance-Owens "peace" plan on May 5 because they believe they can gain even more than the increased concessions apparently agreed
Fred Moore, former president of the Miners Federation, presented $500 to Basilio Gutierrez, representing the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, on May 6. The donation, from the South Coast May Day Committee, will support the Ship to
100th Newcastle May Day
By Margaret Allan
NEWCASTLE — In the largest march the city has seen for years, around 600 people celebrated May Day by marching on May 1. The larger than usual turnout was probably due to the fact that this day
Cambodian emergency
This week's issue of the Bulletin magazine has a cover feature on Cambodia by Australian journalist and film maker John Pilger. It is must reading.
Pilger describes the growing threat of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, who
Khmer Rouge steps up armed attacks
In the last week, the Khmer Rouge has escalated its attacks on UN and Cambodian government installations as it seeks to prevent the May 23 elections.
On May 3 Khmer Rouge guerillas attacked Siem Reap,
By Sean Malloy
The ninth round of Middle East peace negotiations opened on April 27. Israel's opening presentation by Yossi Gal signalled some changes in Israel's position. "We come to these talks with the feeling that we should move beyond
ANC youth leader to tour Australia
By Sean Malloy
Jeremiah Ndou, head of the ANC Youth League International Affairs Department, will be a guest of the radical youth organisation Resistance at its 22nd national conference in July.
Farewell to breakfast?
The Cutting Edge: Fast Food in the Food Chain
Screening on SBS Television, Tuesday May 18, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide)
With press reports just a few weeks ago announcing Australia's first patent granted for a
Another drug raid bungle
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Following the highly publicised drug raid bungle of May 21, in which a van was pulled up outside St Vincent's Hospital and a group of charity collectors for the Muscular Dystrophy
By Geoff Spencer
PERTH — Some 1200 people attended a Save the Westrail Midland Workshops march and public meeting on May 6. Loudspeakers were set up outside the Midland Town Hall to cater for the large crowd which could not be accommodated
Four-week reprieve for Jackeys Marsh
Residents of Jackeys Marsh, Tasmania, have succeeded in staving off forestry operations in the dry sclerophyll eucalypt forests of Warners Sugarloaf.
Under recently enacted "resource security"
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