Panthers still caged in Angola
By Mumia Abu-Jamal
" For people of colour, doing time is only one among many terms of imprisonment legitimised by the concept of race." — John Edgar Wideman, Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary
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New forms, new truths
Falling LeafSiroccoABC Music through EMI Review by Barry Healy
A new release by Australian world music group Sirocco is always welcome. I've lost track of how long their swirling mix of Irish whistle, didgeridoo, percussion
National student league formed in Indonesia
By Max Lane
JAKARTA — On July 9-12, delegates representing 19 student activist committees met to form a new national student organisation, the National Student League for Democracy (LMND).
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — About 70 people filled Comrades Bar on July 28 to discuss opposing industrial relations minister Peter Reith's "second wave" anti-union legislation. At the monthly Politics in the Pub, organised by Â鶹ӳ» Weekly,
Petition to free Mordechai Vanunu
By Mervyn Murchie
Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician who worked at Israel's Dimona nuclear establishment, was kidnapped by Israel's secret police, Mossad, on September 30, 1986. He was condemned to 18 years'
Black pride pop
Rhythm of NatureColoured StoneCAAMA Music<http://www.caama.com.au/music> Review by Barry Healy
Coloured Stone, proud propagandists for Aboriginal consciousness, are back with another poppy release that presents their
Workers strike over sackings
By Alastair Dickinson
SYDNEY — On July 29, workers at Plastiflex Australia, a small Belgian-owned enterprise in Sydney's western suburbs, walked off the job to begin a 48-hour strike against management's refusal to
Vote in East Timor delayed again
By Jon Land
On July 28, a spokesperson for United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan announced that the referendum on independence for East Timor will be delayed yet again. August 30 has been scheduled as the
Amidst great controversy, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and (MBG) recently agreed to support a gas pipeline project proposed by Enron and Shell Eastern Bolivia. The San Miguel-Cuiabá pipeline, a joint
By Srini and Shane Bentley
SYDNEY — "Foreign students go AWOL", screamed the headline of the July 14 Australian. Three hundred international students are out of pocket and face the risk of deportation following the collapse of the National
The pace of corporate concentration within the "life industry" is accelerating, according to a report by the United States-based Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI). "Life industry" is a term used by the giant transnational enterprises
Free market speech isn't free
By Kim Bullimore
Freedom of speech is one of the most treasured ideas in Western democracies, held up as an ideal towards which all nations and governments should strive. The United States has enshrined this right,
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