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Write on: Letters to the editor

Rise Like Lions Although I was prepared to accept criticism of Rise Like Lions in a review published in GLW, I feel a response to the thoughts of Jonathon Strauss is justified. I was somewhat offended at being associated with nationalism and

DSP congress: globalising resistance to capitalism

BY SUE BOLAND  It is just a little over 12 months since the protests against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Seattle awoke the world to the gathering strength of a new anti-corporate movement against neo-liberal

Audacity secret to M1's success

BY PETER BOYLE Activists in every capital city in Australia have begun organising around calls for a worker-student strike and blockade of the stock exchanges on May 1. The M1 coalitions have brought together veterans of the S11 blockade

Can we make a revolution in Australia?

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS What do revolutions look like? Many people have a stereotyped picture of what a revolution is: a revolution is an event in which people with guns take over a city or a country. This image confuses a revolution with an

ALP students retain control of NUS

BY SIMON BUTLER BALLARAT — The 2000 National Union of Students national conference, held here from December 11-15, closed in tumult and chaos, with members of the National Broad Left, the Labor left and the Labor right factions hurling abuse, and

Why I joined the DSP: 'There is an alternative'

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS Leigh Hughes joined the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) in November 2000 following the tumultuous events at the S11 protests in Melbourne. He is 17 years old, and is a Year 12 student at Tuggeranong College, a college in an

John Lennon and the sixties

The following remarks were delivered at the dedication of Jose Villa's statue of John Lennon in Lennon Park, Havana, Cuba on December 8. It was the 20th anniversary of Lennon's assassination.

Indigenous students launch national network

BY KIM BULLIMORE MELBOURNE — After much successful campaigning in New South Wales, the Indigenous Students Network has relaunched itself as a national network for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Corrie Hodson, a founding member

Voices of free Bougainville

Bougainville Voices was recorded in central Bougainville in 1998 by musicologist Justin Tonti-Filippini at the personal invitation of Bougainville's leaders. He began work as soon as a truce was brokered on the war-torn island that has been fighting

INDONESIA: Golkar and army preparing for comeback

BY MAX LANE The process of overthrowing the Suharto dictatorship did not go sufficiently deep enough to deliver a deathblow to the political ambitions of the old regime, of Suharto's former ruling party, Golkar, and the armed forces, the TNI.

UNITED STATES: George Bush junior takes over

BY NORM DIXON George Walker ("Dubya") Bush will be inaugurated as the United States of America's 43rd president on January 20. Even before he sets foot in the White House, vast numbers of Americans are already convinced that Bush has no legitimate

FRANCE: 'Another Europe is possible'

The French seaside resort town of Nice, on the country's Mediterranean coast, added its name to the list of "insurgent cities" — a list which already includes Seattle, Washington, Prague and Melbourne — when, on December 6-7, 70,000 people from