Zanny Begg

  • NZ students say: 'Butt out of student affairs'

    NZ students say: 'Butt out of student affairs'In April university students across New Zealand were asked to vote in referendums on whether membership of student unions should be compulsory or voluntary. Initially the private

  • NZ students win against VSU

    NZ students win against VSUStudents in New Zealand have had a victory against the government's attempts to weaken student unions through the voluntary student membership (VSM) legislation. The legislation required student unions to

  • US: it's money, not morals

    US: it's money, not moralsWith grave insincerity, US President Bill Clinton informed the world on March 25 that NATO had a "moral imperative" to intervene in Serbia to "defuse a powder keg at the heart of Europe". Clinton assured

  • World thug: an A-Z of US aggression

    World thug: an A-Z of US aggressionAngola — 1975: civil war breaks out after Portugal is forced to withdraw. The US backs the right-wing Union for the Total Liberation of Angola in its counter-revolutionary war against the

  • Lolita denies the reality of abuse

    Lolita denies the reality of abuseAdrian Lyne's 1997 adaption of Vladimir Nabokov's novel has been dogged by controversy. It took a year to clear US censors and it was nearly banned by Australian authorities. Much of the hype

  • Thoughts of a twenty-something feminist

    Talking Up: Young Women's Take On FeminismEdited by Rosamund Else-Mitchelland Naomi FlutterSpinifex Press1998, 239 pp.Talking up: Young Women's Take on Feminism is a collection of essays by young Australian feminists. It was produced

  • Thousands of students rally against VSU

    On March 31, thousands of students took to the streets in rallies across Australia against the voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation. The rallies were a vibrant rebuttal of the Liberals' claim of majority support for VSU.

  • Students — a catalyst for revolution?

    On May 10, 1968, thousands of students and police clashed on the streets of Paris in the infamous "night of the barricades". The night has come to symbolise, with fear by conservatives and enthusiasm by radicals, the revolutionary

  • Can men be feminists?

    This is a vexed question in feminist circles, many asserting that feminist consciousness is intrinsically linked to female biology and that therefore only women can be feminists. But does biology really determine political ideas? Or

  • A question of strategy

    The debate between anarchism and socialism is not one between "libertarian" and "authoritarian" models of change, as the anarchists claim. It is a debate about what strategy is needed to overturn the capitalist status quo. Consciously

  • Anti-democratic changes to electoral law

    The Senate will debate amendments to federal electoral law on February 15 which, according to the Greens' Senator Bob Brown, would make it harder for "young and black people to enrol to vote". The Electoral and Referendum Amendment