Indonesia, the ISO and sectarianismBRISBANE — "Indonesia: the revolution continues" was the subject of a pubic meeting organised by the International Socialist Organisation here on April 13. The speaker, ISO leader Terry
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The corporations that are introducing genetically modified crops into the global ecosystem want you to think of genetic engineering as a well-understood science similar to laparascopic surgery. Indeed, the phrase "genetic engineering" gives the
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Jailed PRD leader: 'We want to empower the people' Since March 21, when the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD) relaunched itself as a political party that campaigns openly, rightist groups and political figures have campaigned for its banning.
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News —
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Pensioner excursion tickets Thousands of senior citizens, pensioners, because they live in areas not serviced by government transport, i.e., trains, buses or ferries, don't have the benefit of the $1 pensioner excursion ticket. The 17-seat majority
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East Timor: time for actionThe events of April mark another turning point in the East Timorese people's struggle for independence. Pro-integration terrorist gangs armed and funded by the Indonesia military have unleashed a wave of
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Kindness "If you wish to file a complaint for a violation of your civil rights under 42 U.S.C. 1983 ... [t]he court requires parties instituting civil actions to pay a $150.00 filing fee." — C.A. Long The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification
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Statement of solidarity with East Timor The following statement drafted by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor is being circulated for endorsement. To add your name to the statement, please contact ASIET (details below). Cut all
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Protests against East Timor slaughter In response to reports that as many as 100 people in East Timor were murdered on April 17 and 18 by anti-independence terror gangs backed by the Indonesian regime, solidarity activists held an emergency night
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The harsh reality of sex discriminationSexual harassment, intimidation and gender-based discrimination are confronted by working women on a daily basis. More than 85% of complaints received by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
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How Labor betrayed anti-uranium movementIn October 1980 a federal election returned Malcolm Fraser's conservative coalition. Despite widespread opposition to uranium mining, the ALP had refused to make it an election issue. ALP
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VUT tries to silence critics An industrial dispute is brewing at the Victorian University of Technology (VUT). Three staff members, one a member of the University Council, have been denied access to their e-mail, in breach of award agreements,
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Earlier this year, Australian tennis star Pat Cash received a lot of praise for donating a large sum of money to a charity for young people. Cash also chooses to avoid paying tax on his wealth by living outside Australia in a tax
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... and ain't I a woman?: Our duty as women As a young woman, you are the future of Australia. Yes, I can study to become a medical scientist and find a cure for cancer, AIDS, chronic childhood asthma ... or maybe become an engineer, design new
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Arabunna people: Stop Roxby mine!ADELAIDE = The Arabunna people, traditional owners of the Lake Eyre region in South Australia, say that Western Mining Corporation has pursued a deliberate policy of "divide and rule" of Aboriginal
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US: it's money, not moralsWith grave insincerity, US President Bill Clinton informed the world on March 25 that NATO had a "moral imperative" to intervene in Serbia to "defuse a powder keg at the heart of Europe". Clinton assured
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Another one? "Give war a chance." — New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, on April 6, calling for the bombing of Serbia to be less "surgical". Life imitates art "BELGRADE — Yugoslavia's film academy announced Saturday that it awarded
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Cops bust picket lineADELAIDE — Six people were arrested on April 22 after police broke a picket line at the site of the proposed Pelican Point power station. Members of Community Action for Pelican Point (CAPP) began the
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HOBART — At its meeting on April 20, the Tasmania University Union Students Representative Council condemned NATO's bombing of Serbia and the Australian government's support for the war. The SRC also condemned
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Reason #179 to be a socialist Each weekday morning, several million people around Australia make their way, like zombies, to work. And like zombies, we return home at the end of the day. Some struggle in traffic, others cram into buses or trains.
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Western Australian energy minister Colin Barnett told the WA parliament on April 20 that there may be as many as 11 uranium mines in the state within five years. Barnett also raised the possibility that WA could become a site for
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World thug: an A-Z of US aggressionAngola — 1975: civil war breaks out after Portugal is forced to withdraw. The US backs the right-wing Union for the Total Liberation of Angola in its counter-revolutionary war against the
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MELBOURNE — Deakin University and Coles New World announced a new private vocational and higher education institution on April 14. Although details of the new "Coles Institute" are sketchy, the announcement signals a new stage in
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BRISBANE — A number of Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) delegates and section councillors around the country have launched a campaign to reject the proposed 1999-2002 Centrelink agency agreement 1999-2002, which is being
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Residents say no to loss of parklandMELBOURNE — Residents in the Parkville and Carlton areas have united to protect permanently reserved parkland at Royal Park near the Royal Melbourne Zoo which is being threatened by the
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Antibiotics transformed human health beyond recognition after World War II. No longer were children and adults dying of common bacterial diseases dreaded by our grandmothers — pneumonia, tuberculosis, polio, scarlet fever,
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MELBOURNE — From April 24 the Mirimbiak Nations Aboriginal Corporation, Coast Action and the Surfrider Foundation will hold indigenous coastal workshops along Victoria's coastline. The one-day workshops are designed to bring
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Passing of an Aboriginal rights activistDon McLeod has died in Perth, aged 91. Although non-Aboriginal, McLeod was a dedicated fighter for Aboriginal rights long before reconciliation became the word of the moment, espoused
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'Fact and fantasy' at Lucas Heights reactorSYDNEY — The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), which operates the nuclear reactor in southern Sydney, is distributing a document called "Lucas Heights —
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Explosion during Maralinga 'clean-up'The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency has revealed that an explosion took place during the clean-up of the Maralinga nuclear bomb site in western South Australia on March
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BRISBANE — The University of Queensland Student Representative Council has passed a motion condemning the existence of the Cross-Campus Anti-VSU Collective (CCAVSUC), the organising committee for the campaign against voluntary
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Youth wagesAs we approach another May Day, young workers in this country face a huge attack on their rights. The Liberal Party's proposed Youth Wages Bill legislates permanently lower wages for young people. The ALP has
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Child-care centres close in Victoria Victorian Trades Hall Council and trade unions have launched a campaign to halt more closures of child-care centres, after a union study found 57 centres, most of them non-profit centres, have closed since
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For more than 100 years, workers and socialists around the world have seen May Day — May 1 — as the international day of working-class demonstration and action.
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The national council of the Australian Greens adopted a resolution on the Balkans conflict at its meeting on April 10 and 11. The resolution begins: "The Australian Greens condemn the Serbian leadership in Kosova for
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The GST: just reject it! The Senate inquiry into the federal government's proposed goods and services tax (GST) has unearthed plenty of evidence to prove that it is fundamentally unfair and inequitable. However, during the course of the inquiry,
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One view expressed about the war in the Balkans is that NATO is attacking Serbia because the Milosevic regime somehow stems the advance of Western economic penetration of the region, or, in more extreme versions, that it is
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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's June 2 national and provincial elections will be won by the African National Congress (ANC) government with two-thirds (or possibly more) of the vote. Nelson Mandela will hand the presidency
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Mexican resistance strengtheningMEXICO CITY — A demonstration against electricity privatisation and student fees by up to 250,000 workers, students and masked Zapatistas on March 18 was the high point of a week of struggle which
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MOSCOW — When police in the city of Krasnodar in southern Russia searched a rucksack belonging to 19-year-old Gennady Nepshikuyev last November, they found a bomb. It was not a particularly sophisticated bomb, just a container
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The German Greens, junior partners in the coalition government led by the Social Democratic Party (SPD), are divided over German involvement in NATO air strikes on Serbia and Kosova. The Greens' policy of calling for the dissolution of
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Organising Jakarta's factory workers JAKARTA — Earlier this month, 91̳ Weekly's SAM KING spoke to AGUS from the radical Jakarta factory workers' organisation Komite Buruh untuk Aksi Reformasi (Kobar — Workers' Committee for Reform
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A month after the beginning of the US/NATO air war against Serbia, political and military preparations are clearly under way for a possible land war. A report by Martin Walker in the British Guardian on April 22 stated bluntly that
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Global demo for cancelling Third World debtBRUSSELS — An international demonstration planned for June 19 to press for the cancellation of all Third World debt was endorsed at a conference organised by the Committee for the
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South Korean prosecutors are trying to arrest at least 20 leaders of the Seoul subway workers' union, including its president Seok Chi-soon, as part of an attempt by the South Korean government and big business to stop a Korean Confederation of Trade
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For two weeks in the wake of the police's February 4 shooting of Ahmed Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant in New York, daily protests kept the spotlight on police terror against blacks and Hispanics. A mass civil disobedience
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The results of Turkey's April 18 national, provincial and local elections signal increased repression against the country's Kurdish minority and greater austerity for the working class. However, the strong vote in the south-east of
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Burmese leader was no socialistIn an article titled "The Last Fifty Years of Burmese Law: E Maung and Maung" (Law Asia, 1997), Andrew Huxley from London's School of African and Oriental Studies claims that the former president of
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy The Senator says it looks ramshackle.Well Senator, it is a tentIt's asking white Australiato pay the bloody rent. They told the bully boys in blueto pull it down in '72.But Aboriginal activistsjust resurrected it
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Brisbane CISLAC's 20th anniversary By Lynda Hansen. BRISBANE — Fifty supporters of the Committee in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean attended its Latin American dance party at the Resistance Centre on April 17. The event was the
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Good morning Vietnam! Good morning, Vietnam! And it's a lovely day here in beautiful downtown Pristina. Wakey wakey, hands off snakey. It's time to rise and shine! Up and at them! It's yours truly on the dial way until 10 this AM today. Yessiree,
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David Beniuk will perform songs from his latest CD, UnAustralian Folk Songs, at the Canberra 91̳ Weekly May Day dinner on May 1 at the Pensioners Club in Acton. Beniuk describes his music as "dysfunctional/
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The life and times of Pancho VillaBy Friedrich KatzStanford University Press, 1998 985 pp., $53.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon "From my earliest days, I saw that millions had to suffer for the few who became rich and lived luxuriously. I solemnly