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Unions condemn royal commission

BY CHRIS SPINDLER MELBOURNE — One thousand shop stewards and delegates from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union, the Plumbers' Union and the Maritime Union

INDONESIA: Repression the winner in Megawati cabinet

BY MAX LANE Military generals and figures linked to the regime of former dictator Suharto have done well in the first cabinet of newly-elected President Megawati Sukarnoputri, which was announced on August 9. In a signal move, Sukarnoputri has

Iraq sanctions protest

SYDNEY — Fifty activists held a protest outside the US consulate on August 6 to demand an end to the 11 year-old economic sanctions against Iraq on the anniversary of their introduction. Passers-by heard how the sanctions have had a crippling

Howard ignores the lessons of Timor

BY PIP HINMAN It doesn't come as much surprise that PM John Howard has been so quick to visit Jakarta. Barely a day after the new Indonesian cabinet was announced, Howard was on his way to make a deal with the Sukarnoputri-military government. In

March on CHOGM gains momentum

BY EWAN SAUNDERS & TIM STEWART BRISBANE — Plans for a massive march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October are gaining momentum, with plans by community groups and environmental and social justice organisations in the CHOGM

A long search for freedom

BY SARAH STEPHEN In 1989, Algeria's government stepped up its "Arabisation" program, imposing Arabic as the only language on the entire population, regardless of whether or not people spoke it. Even books were rewritten, from French into Arabic.

The trials of growing up a working-class Catholic

REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN LiamDirected by Stephen FrearsScreenplay by Jimmy McGovernStarring Anthony Borrows, Megan Burns, Ian Hart and Claire HackettShowing at Dendy and Palace cinemas nationally Liam, the latest film scripted by Jimmy

Big Brother: playing by their rules

BY TYRION PERKINS The first Australian version of the television show Big Brother is finally over, but there is another in the pipeline. Channel 10 marketers did their job so thoroughly that even its news readers were plugging the show. Big Brother

Action updates

Hiroshima A-bombing marked BRISBANE — A graphic description of the terrible effects of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 was the keynote talk of an August 6 rally held here to mark the 56th anniversary of that catastrophic event. The

ISRAEL: Sharon escalates war on Palestinians

BY AHMED NIMER RAMALLAH — As the intifada enters its 11th month, the scale of devastation wrought by Israel's war against the Palestinian people has reached levels unparalleled in the 33-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Since

Resistance in Action

Students fight casualisation NEWCASTLE — Resistance is supporting a campaign to save the fine arts faculty at Newcastle University. Eighty students from the faculty attended a meeting to oppose the forced casualisation of teaching staff and

Socialist Alliance opposes CLP's racism

BY RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — The Northern Territory Socialist Alliance branch has thrown itself into the August 18 NT elections, using the short election campaign to build opposition to the rampant racism of the Country Liberal Party government.