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Resistance seminar on fighting racism

Resistance seminar on fighting racism By Danny Fairfax SYDNEY — Forty people, including a number of new faces, attended an anti-racism seminar held by Resistance on Saturday, October 10. The event sought to get to the heart of racism and how to

Dorney misses the forest and the trees

Dorney misses the forest and the trees The Sandline Affair: Politics and mercenaries and the Bougainville crisisBy Sean DorneySydney: ABC Books, 1998352 pp., $24.95 Review by Max Watts Since the Bougainville "crisis", (I'd call it the

East Timorese mobilise for freedom

The fall of Suharto in May unleashed an unprecedented wave of political discussion and activity in East Timor. Across the island, meetings are being organised to discuss East Timor's future as an independent entity, to debate the proposal of

On the box

9POINT = Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News

Workers First contests organiser elections

Workers First contests organiser elections By Chris Spindler The Workers First team, which won the leadership of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union earlier this year, is standing candidates for seven organiser

Touch One, Touch All premiered

Touch One, Touch All premiered By Margaret Perrott WOLLONGONG — On October 21, 50 people attended the launch of the new film by Peter Ewer, Touch One, Touch All, about government attacks on unionists in the Illawarra. The film draws parallels

How Can It Be?

How Can It Be? How can it be that we have come to this?Australia must be a land of foolish masochistsOnce you might overlook, but someone tell me now,Did we really put up our hands for more of Johnny Howard? Civilisation will hold us in

Rallies against Pinochet

Rallies against Pinochet By Sean Magill ADELAIDE — Around 100 people rallied outside Parliament House here on October 22 in support of the arrest and extradition to Spain of Augusto Pinochet to stand trial for murder and torture. Organised by

Packer's taxes and ours

Packer's taxes and ours Was anyone really surprised by the October 13 Federal Court ruling which rejected attempts by the Australian Tax Office to make Kerry Packer (through the companies he owns) pay taxes on some $500 million of income? The

Timbarra protesters attacked

Timbarra protesters attacked By Bernie Wunsch LISMORE — Police and mining company employees have violently attacked and injured protesters and local residents at the gates of the Timbarra gold mine near Tenterfield in north-eastern NSW.

US immigration law — bringing back sweatshops

By David Bacon BERKELEY, California — There is an immigration crisis in the United States. But it is not caused by uncontrolled borders or too many immigrants, the stereotyped images used to inflame anti-immigrant hysteria. It is the return of

Big protests in Dili

By Jon Land Starting on October 10, a new wave of pro-independence protests took place across East Timor. The largest mobilisations occurred in Dili, which was brought to a standstill for two days by huge demonstrations. Estimates of the number of