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The suicide of

The suicide of New Left Review By Boris Kagarlitsky For 40 years, New Left Review was a symbol for the radical intelligentsia throughout the world. Now, this journal is no more. There is another journal which bears the same name, but it is

FIJI: Behind the attempted coup

BY DAVID ROBIE & SHERYL HO SUVA, May 20 — George Speight, the leader of the seven gunmen who seized Fiji parliament on May 19, has defied mounting international condemnation of the kidnapping of Fiji's elected cabinet. He claims that his

Reconciliation requires justice

Reconciliation requires justice On May 27, in the Sydney Opera House forecourt not far from where the attempted genocide of Australia's indigenous people began, the spokespeople for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation will hand their

Solidarity with refugees

Solidarity with refugees BY BIANCA AZAR SYDNEY — Danger. Displacement. Despair. The experiences of refugees are undeniably grim, and the difficult, often demoralising process of seeking asylum in Australia makes their struggle even harder. But

SOUTH AFRICA: Students killed at uni protest

SOUTH AFRICA: Students killed at uni protest Police killed one student and injured scores during a protest at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) in Durban on May 14. Witnesses believe that another student was also killed. Students were

Support for teachers urged

Support for teachers urged BY GAIL LORD SYDNEY — One hundred and seventy people, angry at the diversion of federal and state funds from public to private schools, were urged to support the NSW teachers' industrial campaign and calls for

Government 'generates anti-refugee feeling'

BY SEAN HEALY Refugee advocates have condemned as "a policy to manufacture xenophobia" federal government withholding of welfare services to refugees released from the Woomera detention centre in South Australia. Ninety percent of the 1300 held at

Dishonest advertising

Dishonest advertising BY JONATHAN SINGER "It is hard to accept that the federal government's latest GST advertisements are anything more than political propaganda ... the television campaign is devoid of any information that could plausibly be

ACEH: a history of repression and resistance

ACEH: a history of repression and resistance Aceh has a long and proud history of struggle and has a special place in Indonesian history. Resource rich and devoutly Muslim, it is located 700 kilometres north west of Jakarta at the northern end of

Reith helps bosses fight pattern bargaining

BY MELANIE SJOBERG "The manufacturing industry campaign, which is already underway and escalating in Victoria ... presents a serious threat to the workplace relations system", minister for workplace relations Peter Reith told parliament on May 11,

SOUTH AFRICA: Land reform blocked

SOUTH AFRICA: Land reform blocked JOHANNESBURG — The Zimbabwean land crisis presents South African activists with an opportunity to honestly review their country's land reform program to date. South Africa's post-apartheid land reform program was

Write on: letters to the editor

Road genocide There's a growing disparity between the haves and the have-nots in our society, and you don't have to look much further than the family car. While many low-income families get around in 20-year-old Fords or Holdens, the well-heeled