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 Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
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RU486 Over the last decade the ability of women to access abortion services in Australia has become increasingly difficult due to government funding cutbacks and protests by the religious right outside abortion clinics. In this context the
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BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON PERTH — As the February 10 state election looms, the major parties are whipping up hysteria over Western Australia's non-existent "crime wave". The Liberals, the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats are competing to
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“Something that did concern me in your letter, however, was to read that since there was not 'a hint of Baldwin's sexuality' in the African American encyclopaedia you felt 'that is as it should be'.” — Sean Denis D'Arcy. The words above
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January 1 marked the formal end of the 10-year process of "reconciliation" between black and white Australians set up in 1991 by the Hawke Labor government. This process, Labor argued, would address the past injustices inflicted on
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Following her participation in the September 26 protests in Prague against the meetings of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Felicity Martin decided upon her return to Australia she would join the Democratic Socialist
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An international gathering of scientists in Shanghai mid-January presented a report revealing that global warming caused by the emission of greenhouse gases could result in the atmosphere's temperature rising by almost 6°C by
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Government delegates from 99 countries met in Shanghai, China, from January 17-20 to finalise and unanimously approve a report on climate change science, which presents new and deeper evidence of the human impact on the world's weather
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It doesn't matter whether what's being proposed is a woodchip mill, an inner-city monorail, a block of luxury apartments, an airport extension or anything else. There's a comprehensive planning process that has to be gone through,
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Federal environment minister Robert Hill announced on February 1 that he requires further detailed information before making a final decision on the Honeymoon uranium mine proposal. The Honeymoon project, located 80km west of Broken
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At the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) in December, the socialist youth organisation Resistance walked out of the left-wing faction called the National Broad Left (NBL). Instead of participating in this
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Who knows internet business? The purpose of business is profits. A few years ago that would have been a controversial statement, drawing replies of “companies invest for the national good” or something similar. Today every government and
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Fools of the world, unite! Each year, we here at Life of Riley Enterprises like to let our hair down and sponsor a Festival of Fools. Fools' fests go back for yonks. It was traditionally the one day of the year
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Write on: letters to the editor Capitalist racketeers On January 18 in the Brisbane Federal Court, a fire protection company was fined five million dollars with $200,000 costs for price fixing with 7 other firms including James Hardie
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PORTO ALEGRE — What exactly was the World Social Forum (WSF) that ended here on January 30 after 16 plenaries, 400 workshops, 20 testimonials, and endless concerts, artistic exhibitions and "happenings" dedicated to the theme that
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PORTO ALEGRE — The World Social Forum was awash with debates. Lack of space prevents anything like a full account of these (some of which will be covered in future issues of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly), but among the most important were: The state of the
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SYDNEY — With the demise of the Refugee Action Collective, members of the International Federation of Iraqi and Iranian Refugees (IFIR), the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and independent anti-racist activists have
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John Howard upped the election stakes on January 29 when he unveiled his $2.9 billion innovation action plan, Backing Australia's Ability. The plan was applauded by business circles, university administrators and research bodies, but
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PERTH — The Democratic Socialist Party's candidates in the February 10 Western Australian state election are calling on their supporters to give their first preference votes to socialist and Green candidates and to return a Labor
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MELBOURNE — "The task facing us is to build a worthy sequel to S11 on May 1 that will strengthen and advance the movement, organisationally and ideologically", M1 Alliance spokesperson and Democratic Socialist Party activist Jackie
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PERTH — Residents of Burt Way, East Perth are outraged over Perth City Council's plan to demolish the housing in their street to make way for luxury high rise apartments. Local resident Karen Kinsett told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly
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HOBART — The National Union of Students (NUS) education committee met on January 25 to plan its campaigns for 2001. One of the main issues discussed was how NUS should respond to the Labor Party's federal election policy
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The Democratic Socialist Party's appeal for a socialist electoral alliance to stand common candidates in the next federal elections has met with an enthusiastic response from the activist left. So far the International
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SYDNEY — Community activists from Richmond, Penrith and across the Blue Mountains are organising to stop a new women's prison from being built in Windsor, on the city's western outskirts. They say the state government should
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SYDNEY — The Department of Corrective Services has released statistics for the September quarter on imprisonment rates in Australia. These figures show that the average daily number of people in prison has steadily increased from
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WOLLONGONG — Teachers and library staff at TAFE's Illawarra Institute of Technology are taking action against attacks which have flowed from repeated budget cuts by the NSW Labor government. TAFE library staff, members of
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HOBART — 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly volunteers have vowed to defy attempts by Hobart City Council to prevent the paper being distributed in the Elizabeth Street Mall. Council officers directed two 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly distributors to leave
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HOBART — Retail workers at the K&D chain of hardware stores grudgingly voted to accept an enterprise agreement on January 22 that offered a pay increase of less than 4.5% a year in exchange for an erosion of conditions,
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DARWIN — Twenty spirited demonstrators chanted "Deport Ruddock, not the refugees" in protest at an appearance by the minister for immigration at a meeting here on February 1. The meeting, attended by 100 people, was part of
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CANBERRA — The federal Department of Health and Aged Care has been publicly embarrassed by a recent outbreak of legionella in one of its Canberra buildings. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) reports that staff in the
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SYDNEY — Dita Sari, chairperson of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), has written to the central New South Wales branch of the Maritime Union of Australia to thank the union for funding a number of FNPBI
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GEELONG — Following the demise of Wainwright's Tree in September 1999, this city has desperately needed a progressive bookshop and activist centre. The Democratic Socialist Party, Resistance and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly have announced that
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Adelaide: Feb 17, noon-2pm. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, Nth Adelaide. Ph 8231 6982. Brisbane: International Women's Day Collective meeting. Mon Feb 12, 6.30pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. All women welcome. Ph 3831
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BRISBANE — The Brisbane M1 Alliance has pledged to build a peaceful mass blockade of the Brisbane office of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on May 1 and bring the business of neo-liberal globalisation to a standstill for a
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Echos "The problem facing both leaders is that the more they try to distance themselves from each other, the more they are sounding the same." — Paul Coorey, the Adelaide Advertiser's chief political reporter comparing Prime Menzies John Howard
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NEWCASTLE — Thanks to international working-class solidarity, 160 Southland Colliery workers near Cessnock are reported to have won their entitlements back after the collapse of the Colrack Group on January 10. Colrack's parent
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BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) candidates in the February 17 Queensland elections have slammed the decision by 17 National Party candidates to give preferences to the racist One Nation party in the upcoming state
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BRISBANE — Traditional dances were performed outside Cairns District Court on January 31 to celebrate the acquittal of two Torres Strait Islanders charged with robbing a group of commercial fishers. Benjamin Ali Nona and George
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With the verdict handed down on January 31 by the judges presiding over the trial of the two Libyans accused of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the conditions imposed by the United Nations Security Council for the
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The Burmese military regime has revealed that it has been in secret talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi since October, the first face-to-face meetings between the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the generals since 1994. But
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Talks between the Papua New Guinea government and Bougainville leaders on January 26 have finally resulted in an agreement to hold a referendum in which the people of Bougainville will be given the option to choose independence —
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After a year-long, increasingly desperate search, the World Trade Organisation's general council has finally confirmed the venue for its next ministerial summit: the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. WTO bureaucrats and rich country
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The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has taken an extraordinary series of measures to contribute to the efforts to relieve the devastating impact of the January 26 earthquake in Gujarat, in India's north west. The
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On the eve of an election campaign, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting, with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of
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Bosnia, Kosova and the West — The Yugoslav tragedy: a Marxist viewBy Mike KaradjisResistance Books, 2000251pp, $24.97 (pb)Many articles and books have been written, from all points of the political spectrum, that attempt to
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Imagine someone referring to prime minister John Howard and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as "more generous than Mother Theresa". You wouldn't be surprised if it came from a Coalition backbencher — but these are the precise
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In an escalation of tensions between President Abdurrahman Wahid and right-wing forces in the country's parliament, a full session of the DPR, the Indonesian house of representatives, voted almost unanimously on February 2 to accept a
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BY ISAM AL-KHAFAJI When Turkey sent 10,000 soldiers into northern Iraq in late December, the event passed almost unnoticed by the international media. Turkish incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan have become routine. As on previous occasions, Turkish
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PORTO ALEGRE — Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon reaffirmed the internationalist and socialist perspective of the Cuban Revolution in a speech from the chair of a thematic panel at the World Social Forum
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New Zealand's Waterfront Workers Union (WWU) is locked in a major dispute with forestry giant Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) over the contracting of cheap labour to load log ships in South Island ports. Over the last three months pickets
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Suddenly all the triumphalism is gone and the erstwhile "Masters of the Universe" are sounding like whining rich kids whose snowboards have been taken away from them. Over the last decade, the World Economic Forum's annual meeting,
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Palestinians have submitted a report to the United Nations saying weapons used by Israel to quell the four-month-old intifada in Palestine contained depleted uranium, the January 19-20 Jordan Times reported.
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At its 19th congress in January, the Democratic Socialist Party decided to support the holding of a second Asia-Pacific international solidarity conference over the 2002 Easter weekend (March 29-April 1). The 2002 conference — to
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What Are Rock Stars Doing TodayMagic DirtWarner Music<; REVIEW BY BEN COURTICE GEELONG — Local band Magic Dirt have produced a brilliant album of dreamy but catchy pop-leaning songs. It's the best new
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Unearth ThisOb(zine) Blue Mountains/western Sydney music compilationAvailable from PO Box 300, Blaxland NSW 2774 or < collection of 17 tracks by different bands from the western Sydney/Blue