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SBS remembers the sixties

Amidst a raft of entertaining music documentaries, SBS is also screening as part of its "The Sixties" theme week (May 22-29) some political films that should be watched by every activist who either was too young to be there or was there but whose

Castro: 'Force is no solution'

Castro: 'Force is no solution' Following are excerpts from a speech by Cuba's President Fidel Castro to a mass rally in the University of Havana on May 4. Brutal and destructive air strikes are taking place in the very heart of Europe, which are

Marathon Foods dispute

Marathon Foods dispute By Sarah Lantz MELBOURNE — A sign stating "Dim sims, spring rolls and rotten bosses" adorns the front of the Marathon Foods Company in Kensington where Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members and supporters

Budget aims at education for profit

Budget aims at education for profit By Zanny Begg The May 11 federal budget pushes forward the privatisation of secondary and tertiary education in Australia. Private schools will be handed an extra $561 million over the next four years, in

Solidarity with East Timorese and Indonesian people grows

Solidarity with East Timorese and Indonesian people grows Campaigning in solidarity with the East Timorese struggle for independence and the Indonesian people's struggle for democracy heated up around Australia last week, building up to the

Welfare only for the rich?

Welfare only for the rich? Comment by Margaret Allum Right-wing commentators and politicians have greeted criticisms of Aboriginal welfare programs by the former chairperson of the Cape York Land Council, Noel Pearson, with roars of approval.

Lessons of the Longford gas explosion

Lessons of the Longford gas explosion By Vannessa Hearman MELBOURNE — At the end of April, final submissions were presented to the royal commission into the gas explosion and fire at Esso's Longford facility in the Latrobe Valley. The Victorian

Maps for the CIA

Maps To Director of Central IntelligenceCentral Intelligence AgencyWashington, DC 20505 It has come to my attention that there was a bit of a boo-boo in Belgrade this past week. Apparently the Central Intelligence Agency had some difficulty

Students remembered

Students remembered Thousands of students, including 3000 from Trisakti University, rallied on May 12 to remember the four student activists killed by Indonesian soldiers on May 12, 1998. The four were architecture student Elang Mulya

ANC social policy follows World Bank advice

ANC social policy follows World Bank advice By Patrick Bond JOHANNESBURG — Leaders of the African National Congress defend the South African government's lamentable economic record since 1994, which has included the loss of half a million

The Kurds' national liberation struggle

By Nurullah Ozbek On May 31, the trial of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan will begin in Turkey. Ocalan faces the death penalty for "treason" — that is, for leading the Kurdish people's struggle for their national rights. The