Federal government to fund student organisations
By Alex Bainbridge
MELBOURNE — The federal government brought legislation before parliament on June 30 to override the "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation enacted by the
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Is there a connection between sexism and racism? What role, if any, should the women's movement play in the fight against racism? Questions such as these will be among the issues taken up at the National Organisation of Women Students Australia
The Campaign to Oppose the Return of the Khmer Rouge (CORKR) in the United States has called on the US government to suspend military aid and training projects to Thailand. Sections of the Thai military are actively involved in supporting and arming
From Soweto to Perth
By Tamara Desiatov
PERTH — A Cultural Dissent program for youth, "From Soweto to Perth", was held here on June 18 to draw the international links in struggles by young people for freedom and justice.
Eighteen
ADELAIDE — A new student group is campaigning to stop the Brown government from implementing cuts to education recommended in the recent audit report. Secondary Students Against Cuts, a Resistance-initiated campaign, was launched at a teachers' protest rally in May.
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — WA's forest blockade began here on July 2 with several hundred people attending a two-day festival near Pemberton, about 400 km south of here.
The festival included talks and workshops on forest-related issues
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — A Namibian court has found that the 1989 assassination of SWAPO activist Anton Lubowski was the work of a South African Defence Force death squad. The verdict confirms the suspicions of many South Africans and
Filipinos oppose new tax
By Jon Land
Two thousand people protested outside the Malacanang Palace in Manila on June 28 over the introduction of a new value-added tax (VAT). Organised by a coalition called KOMVAT, the action was part of a
By Roger Clarke
Marxism certainly claims to be scientific, but it is not only science. Marxists accept "the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man [humanity] is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence" (Karl
Not true, unfortunately
"Money market 'gone to hell'" — headline in Sunday Telegraph, June 26.
Forward planning
"The Royal Australian Navy is spending $70 million to buy and convert two American warships into helicopter carriers so
Public cinema for Newtown
SYDNEY — The third in a series of screenings to highlight the need for a public cinema in the inner suburb of Newtown takes place when the community newspaper Newtown Bridge presents Riding the Gale, a poignant
By June McKay
CANBERRA — In a period of international trade agreements, Australian workers can't ignore international issues and working conditions, Greens Senator Dee Margetts told a Canberra Public Sector Union dinner on June 22. The dinner
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