100,000 Indian workers on strike
One hundred thousand electricity workers are on strike in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, in protest against state government plans to privatise the electricity board. The strikers, who began their
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Darwin solidarity group joins ASIET
By Sibylle Kaczorek
DARWIN — This city's East Timor-Indonesia Solidarity Group (ETISG) decided, at its first meeting for the year on January 26, to join the national solidarity group, Action in Solidarity
'Racist' anti-racists?
At the recent NSW state Broad Left meeting in Newcastle, in discussion around protests and campaigns against the Howard government's Border Protection Act, it was suggested that, in order to keep within the "principle" of
By Melanie Sjoberg
Imagine how you would feel if your boss called you into an office and presented you with a contract outlining your new working conditions. "This is a special contract just for you", s/he might say, but you know that your work
Manipulation in Wonderland
Being John MalkovichDirected by Spike JonzeStarring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and Catherine KeenerScreening in selected cinemas Review by Jonathan Singer
Being John Malkovich has been categorised as comedy. I'm not sure
MELBOURNE — Resistance held a stall on January 21 in Bourke St Mall to campaign in solidarity with the Pilbara workers who are fighting attempts by BHP to introduce individual contracts. Participants sold many copies of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly and
Adelaide lord mayor defects to ALP
By Philippa Stanford
ADELAIDE — The ALP announced on January 26 that it had wooed Adelaide Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith into contesting Labor pre-selection for the marginal seat of Adelaide. In an echo of
Advance Australia — not
By Sarah Stephen
Federal minister Philip Ruddock has announced that the government has rewritten the national anthem, "Advance Australia Fair", to reflect the threats to Australians' national identity. We must all learn
Gambling health: don't bet on it
By Kerry Ridgway
"Governments are addicted to gambling", says Michelle Gunner, a PhD student from the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. Once a nurse therapist treating all manner of addictions, Gunner
Incompetence as virtue
 The traditionally staid Institution of Engineers Australia has identified
a trend in government: once you get rid of people with specialist technical
skills, you make mistakes which could have been avoided.
By Sean Healy
Federal Labor leader Kim Beazley has announced that his party will establish a new coastguard to "protect Australia's borders" when it is elected to government. Beazley said the initiative, announced on January 23, was motivated by
By Nabaz
I am 16 years old and arrived in Australia from Iraq last February. In Iraq, I had to leave school when I was 11 and get a job to help my family survive. I had to get a labourer's job. The pay and conditions were extremely bad. There were
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