By Dot Tumney
The Kumarangk Legal Defence Fund (KLDF) has re-launched a web site dealing with 10 defamation cases against 18 people and organisations in relation to the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair. Members of the local Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal
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Andy Warhol's peculiar brand of subversion
By Louis Proyect
When Andy Warhol moved to New York City in 1958 after graduating from the Carnegie Art Institute (now part of Carnegie-Mellon) in Pittsburgh, he knew that abstract expressionism had no
Victorian ALP factional conflict
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Labor Party's factional conflict became "public" at its state conference on February 27-28. About 20 delegates walked out during opposition leader John Brumby's
By Chris Latham
Last year featured the largest protest movement in the history of Indonesia. These protests, which mobilised millions of people, ended the dictator Suharto's 32-year reign. They were primarily built by students. How did students, a
By Barry Sheppard
Five workers atop a 100-foot oil tower were engulfed in flames at the Tosco refinery in Martinez in the San Francisco Bay Area on February 23. One worker was killed outright, three died after days of acute agony and another is in
Heroin hypocrisy: why politicians punish the victims
By Sue Boland
The 1997 United Nations' World Drug Report shows Australian government spending on policing drug use was 14 times that for drug treatment and more than eight times that for drug
'Forward ever, backward never!' — 20th anniversary of the Grenadian Revolution
By Kamala Emanuel
"Sisters and brothers. At 4.15 this morning, the People's Revolutionary Army seized control of the army barracks at True Blue. The barracks were
By Dick Nichols
SYDNEY — Alan Jones, Sydney radio 2UE's right-wing breakfast "shock jock", re-entered old territory recently when he commented on the Maritime Union of Australia. Jones, who made daily attacks on the MUA during its dispute with
By Jane Armanasco
PERTH — On February 27, more than 150 people braved sweltering heat to protest against environmental destruction. The main demands of the rally, which was organised by Resistance, were: Stop the logging of old-growth forests!
By Mark Abberton
MELBOURNE — The Student Unionism Network (SUN) is at a crossroads in its planning for the Victorian day of action against "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) on March 31. SUN has pressured the Victorian branch of the National
Indonesian political prisoners may be pardoned
Stop press: Indonesian political prisoners may be pardoned
Following the registration of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) for the June 7 Indonesian general election (see article page 18),
A nostalgic company history of Australian Stalinism
The Reds
By Stuart Macintyre
Allen & Unwin, 1998. $49.95.
 Review by Bob Gould
Stuart Macintyre is a competent historian where either his past Althusserian
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