KIM COMERFORD and NICK EVERETT, from Brisbane ASIET (Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor), recently travelled to East Timor. Over 10 days they were able to observe the impact of the 20-year occupation of this nation by the Indonesian
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By Mia Butzbaugh
"We're all drivers of the strike here", a metro worker in Paris told me. This was not the rhetoric of union bureaucrats. This was the reality of general assemblies, where French workers met daily to vote on whether to continue
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In a surprise development on April 8, Dzhokhar Dudayev, the central leader of the Chechen resistance forces, broke with the rebels' past position and called for direct negotiations with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
East Timor campaign
WOLLONGONG — A lively demonstration in the Crown Street mall on March 30 brought Saturday morning shoppers' attention to BHP's theft of East Timor's oil and the Australian government's support for Indonesia's occupation of
By Paul Howes and Mark Walsh
SYDNEY — On April 12, more than 20 people representing a range of organisations met to organise anti-uranium mining campaign activities in Sydney. The group planned a protest action to be held outside the Energy
HecateHecateReviewed by Jen Crothers I was extremely surprised and pleased when I heard "By Myself" on the JJJ Hot 100. It came in at number 98, but that's still pretty impressive.
I was surprised because it is such a political, feminist song. From
By Alison Dellit
The campaign against voluntary student unionism legislation, introduced by the Kennett government in 1994, has entered another stage. With the cancellation of federal funding under the Coalition, many student unions have less than
Red and green: too late to get together?
In the face of a critical need for an ecologically sustainable and socially egalitarian society, too often many greens and much of the socialist left seem at loggerheads with each other, regularly drawing
John Winston Howard, MHR (Lib) Bennelong: Get a load of that deficit! Phew! What a big 'un! You could have knocked me over with a feather. I said to my offsider — didn't I, Pete? — I said, "What we have here is a failure of big government". And
Enjoying Life in ChernobylSBS, Friday, April 26, 8.30pm (8pm in SA)Reviewed by Pip Hinman Danish film maker Gyda Uldall first went to Chernobyl in 1988 and recorded the devastation caused by the nuclear disaster two years earlier in When the Wind
The Post Porn ModernistBy Annie SprinkleAthenaeum Theatre, MelbourneReviewed By Kim Linden Annie Sprinkle provides a thought-provoking look at pornography and new age erotica through the eyes of a woman who has made it BIG in the porn industry. The
By Geoff Francis
SYDNEY — On April 11, Sydney airport's east-west runway was reopened. According to Prime Minister John Howard, this fulfilled his pre-election promise to share around the burden of aircraft noise. This is far from true. Under the
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