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Campaign against sanctions

Campaign against sanctions An International Appeal to End Sanctions against the Iraqi People is being coordinated by former US attorney general Ramsey Clarke and others in the International Action Centre in New York. The

Miners threaten strike over Moura claims

Miners threaten strike over Moura claims By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The United Mine Workers Union has warned of a possible statewide strike because de facto spouses of coal miners killed in the Moura underground mine disaster

Bigots invited into Tasmanian high schools

Bigots invited into Tasmanian high schools By Katrina Dean HOBART — Tas-Alert, an anti-gay group campaigning against gay law reform in this state, has been allowed space to display its message on secondary school

What makes a fascist?

DAVID GREASON is the author of I was a Teenage Fascist. He was interviewed for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly by SEAN LENNON. You mention in your book that you got involved in far-right politics at age 14. What led you to this? There are two

Putting politics on the screen

British director KEN LOACH has established himself as the leading socialist film maker working in the English language. Since 1991 he has twice won major prizes at the Cannes film festival, for Hidden Agenda, about Ireland, and Raining Stones, about

Left politics in the USA today

TIM MARSHALL is a university student in San Francisco and a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity. In Sydney in July to attend the Resistance conference, he was interviewed for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly by REIHANA MOHIDEEN. What is it

Qld hospitals in turmoil over staffing

By Paul Burns BRISBANE — Queensland hospitals are in a state of turmoil, with the state government refusing to release funds to alleviate chronic under-staffing. Nurses at the Royal Brisbane Hospital are voting in the week

China's urban workers in the 1990s

By Liang Guosheng In his excellent summary article, "Chinese workers challenge 'market Stalinism'" (GLW, August 10) Phil Clarke writes that the "general economic model promoted by Deng Xiaoping's regime is 'market Stalinism' — market

Residents rally to save fig trees

Residents rally to save fig trees By Susan Price BRISBANE ... One hundred residents and supporters tied yellow ribbons around two historic Moreton Bay fig trees in a protest called by the Herston, Kelvin Grove Residents Group

Rallies focus on Australian complicity in Timor

By Wendy Robertson Hundreds of people rallied in capital cities on October 14-15 to protest against Australian government and business complicity in the 19-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Activists highlighted the fact

Agency bargaining limps towards its grave in HSH

Phil Shannon CANBERRA — Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services & Health (HSH) have completed a series of meetings on the lack of progress in achieving an agency

Camping in the desert

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Starring Terence Stamp, Hugh Weaving and Guy Pearce Reviewed by Kath Gelber I'm not surprised this movie got a standing ovation at the sought-after midnight screening at Cannes.