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Australia and the atomic empire

Australia's Bid for the Atomic BombBy Wayne Reynolds Melbourne University Press, 2000218pp, $32.95(pb) REVIEW BY JIM GREEN It has been known for many years that Australian governments considered, and pursued, the development of nuclear weapons

M1: The people behind the letters

BY SEAN HEALY The two letters — M1 — are certainly getting around: they're on flyers, on lamp posts, stencilled onto footpaths, they've even started to get into the mainstream media. The idea is getting around too: "we're going to blockade the

Union protests Speedo sackings

BY MICHELLE BREAR SYDNEY — Workers are continuing their actions against swimming costume manufacturer Speedo, which shut the doors of its South Windsor factory on March 2, leaving 65 workers without jobs. Sixty of the workers were women who had

Socialist Alliance: Providing 'an alternative' to Labor

At the founding meeting of the Socialist Alliance on February 17, representatives of the eight founding parties — the Democratic Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organisation, Workers Power, Workers Liberty, the Workers League, the

Alice is Wonderland

BY AMANDA LEAHY ALICE SPRINGS — The "Alice in Wonderland" gay and lesbian festival was held here, March 10-17. Activities included a dance, a film festival, a pool night, a cabaret and a day at the races. In response, there were numerous

Guerrilla Girls: coming to a cinema near you

BY ZANNY BEGG The Guerrilla Girls were formed in 1985 after the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a blockbuster exhibition of 169 of the world's "most significant contemporary artists". All the artists whose work was on display were white, and

Bob Brown: M1 is an 'essential protest'

HOBART — On February 24, Greens Senator BOB BROWN endorsed the May 1 (M1) protests against corporate tyranny. The protests will be held around Australia and target the Australian Stock Exchange. "M1 is a way of expressing the need for us to close

Capturing the feel of a new movement

S11 DocoWritten, produced and directed by Charlie Hill-Smith, Cindy Elliot & Pat Stirling$8Order a copy by email at <charlie@cobweb.com.au> StruggleKineticDistributed by MGM Records BY SEAN HEALY I've spent most of the last six months

and ain't i a woman?: Pink tests for girls, blue tests for boys?

Imagine you are sitting your year 12 exam. Girls sit at the tables with pink-coloured test papers, while boys sit at the tables with the blue test papers. It may sound ridiculous, but this is exactly what is being proposed by the president of the

Mapoon residents return after 37 years' exile

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Some 37 years after they were forced from their homes at gunpoint by police acting on the orders of the Queensland National Party government, residents of the far-north Aboriginal settlement of Mapoon have achieved an

Reactor plans hits another hurdle

BY JIM GREEN The federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights hit another hurdle on March 15 when a French court banned a ship from unloading 360 spent fuel rods from the existing

M1 Protesters tour corporate scumbags

BY DANNY FAIRFAX SYDNEY — After assembling in Hyde Park on March 17, 300 protesters set off on a tour of this city's most notorious corporate scumbags. The tour was organised as part of the build-up toward the May 1 blockade of the Australian