Democratic Socialists to stand in Newcastle
By Shane Bentley
NEWCASTLE — The Democratic Socialists have announced that they will stand Dr Kamala Emanuel for the seat of Newcastle in the upcoming state elections. Emanuel, a 24-year-old
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ADELAIDE — More than 100 workers rallied to a sausage sizzle outside the Workcover offices on January 17 in an initial protest against the state Liberal government's plan to "outsource" (contract out particular jobs) parts of the organisation. The
Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991
By Eric Hobsbawm
Michael Joseph, 1994. 627 pp., $45 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
There is a new addition to Eric Hobsbawm's superb Marxist historical trilogy (Age of Revolution, Age
By Angela Matheson
"I began slashing my wrists after two male prisons officers ordered me to urinate in a bottle while they watched. They said they were testing me for drugs, but no matter how hard I tried, my body just wouldn't do it. As
Aunty Raelene's debut album
New Dork Nation
Aunty Raelene
Reviewed by Tully Bates
The debut album for Aunty Raelene is one of the best political roots dance albums you could possibly hear. Basil, one of the four members of the group,
A mission from the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) visited Chechnya and the neighbouring republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia in December. The delegation investigated the November 1992 conflict over the Prigorodni Rayon
AIDS drug delay condemned
SYDNEY — A community meeting of more than 100 people on January 17 unanimously condemned federal health minister Carmen Lawrence for "inexcusable delay" in approving funding for an effective AIDS treatment drug,
While the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ presses may have been silent over the Christmas period, that didn't stop activists from getting out and winning new supporters to the project.
Between December 28 and January 1, a team of activists from Brisbane, Sydney and
Right at sea on affirmative action
By Kath Gelber
The fight to retain the Coogee women's pool in Sydney for women only is not over. The salt-water rock pool has been used exclusively by women and children for over 70 years, including
By Jennifer Thompson
The struggle for socialism today was the basis for discussion at the 16th national conference of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), which took place in Sydney in early January. The conference took up key issues
Handing down an interim report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1988, Commissioner Muirhead stated that "humanity and our country's reputation demand a vigorous approach and new initiatives". Seven years after the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — The mood in the camp of the right-wing Russian "democrats" during the first days of December was savage. After an important round of provincial and local elections on November 29, the time had come to sum up the
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