By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Coal miners in Ukraine returned to work on February 16 after one of the hardest-fought strikes in the former Soviet republic in recent years. The resumption of work followed an agreement by the government to negotiate
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ANC minister calls for limits on human rights A senior member of the ANC-led government of national unity, justice minister Dullah Omar, has called for key 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of South Africa's current interim constitution that protect individual rights to be
Because ... BECAUSE our work is never done and underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get the sack and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get bashed we must
By Marcus Greville A public rally is being organised by the Aboriginal History Committee (AHC) on March 9 to protest against the planned demolition of the historically significant Cyprus-Hellene Club building, the site of the 1938 Day of Mourning
Women Travellers Accommodation DirectoryKaye Johnston & Andrea LofthouseA Moonraker Productions publication, 1995P.O. Box 186, Berry, NSW 253588 pp., $9.95 postage paid in AustraliaReviewed by Kath Gelber This project began when Johnston and
By Christopher Kennedy The project is, from an environmental point of view, frightening. In a cluttered back room the reader, an environmentalist, tries to wade through the huge pile of engineering data in the environmental impact statement. The
Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of FeminismEdited by Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth ProbynRoutledge, 1995. 303 pp., $36.95Reviewed by Jen Crothers Sexy Bodies is a collection of 15 essays. Each crosses a wide variety of disciplinary streams,
Choices — A four-part documentary series produced by 2SER-FM, Sydney, that will be broadcast on 28 community radio stations around NSW, Choices looks at the many decisions women face while juggling work, children, leisure and their partners. The
By Dave Mizon MELBOURNE — When the federal elections were announced, significant industrial disputes that had been simmering around the country, and especially in Victoria, were put on hold. Rather than helping to resolve these ongoing attacks on
By Katrina Dean CANBERRA — The CPSU national leadership organised a candidates' forum here on February 28. Only three candidates for the seat of Canberra were invited to speak — Senator Bob McMullen (ALP), Gwen Willcox (Liberals) and Gordon
When the federal election was called five weeks ago, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly quickly went into campaign mode in an effort to bring you as much information as possible about the most important issues and about progressive candidates. Environmental policies,
By Norm Dixon US President Bill Clinton on February 8 signed into law the Telecommunications Reform Act. Tied to the bill is another law which contains sweeping restrictions on the use of electronic communications called the Communications Decency
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