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Ramos' visit: a Filipina's view

By Estoy Evangelista More than 4 million Filipino overseas contract workers are scattered all over the world. Add the Filipinos who have permanently migrated to other countries, and this number would easily reach 10 million (out of a total

Kurds end hunger strike

By Jennifer Thompson An August 20 statement by the Solidarity Bureau in Brussels declared the end of a hunger strike by 10,000 Kurdish prisoners in Turkish jails and hundreds of supporters in other countries. It said that the strike, begun on

On the box

The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors — A look at the women who pioneered in the US film industry in the 1920s. SBS, Saturday, September 2, 1.45pm. Songolo: Voices of Change — A celebration of black resistance culture

Liberals: saving the bite for later

By Jennifer Thompson The federal Liberal Party's election campaign has begun with John Howard delivering two of six "headland" speeches and launching an attack on Labor's economic management. But despite Howard's attempt at image

PNG land-holders cripple mine

By Norm Dixon PNG's newest gold mine — the Tolukuma Gold Mine in the Goilala mountains in Central Province — is the latest site of conflict between traditional land-holders and an Australian mining company. On August 5, rioting broke out

Memorial meeting for Ernest Mandel

Memorial meeting for Ernest Mandel By John Percy SYDNEY — More than 90 people filled the Resistance Centre here on August 20 to honour the memory of Ernest Mandel, world-renowned Marxist scholar and revolutionary who died in Belgium on July

Forum on independence in the Pacific

By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — Independence in the Pacific was the theme of a forum organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance on the University of Queensland on August 17. The guest speaker was Junior Hakaoro, a Cook Island

Battling for credibility

Battling for credibility John Howard squeezed as much mileage as he could from an invitation to a Collingwood football club dinner recently. Asked whether he wouldn't feel more comfortable at a Carlton club dinner, Howard retorted that if

Write on

Armoured car drivers threaten strike action

By Andrew Watson BRISBANE — A stop-work meeting and rally of armoured car workers here on August 23 resolved to strike indefinitely from August 28, unless the state government responds to their demands for an inquiry into the armoured car and

For a nuclear free world

By Lisa Macdonald The world today is dominated by the fact that, despite human beings' capacity for rational thought, our society is thoroughly irrational. The issue of nuclear weapons provides a good example. Society has developed and harnessed a

The bastards have somewhere to go

By Gerry Harant The story goes that some years ago, when Graham Richardson was still the ALP's chief numbers man and head-kicker, he was asked, on one of the numerous occasions when the ALP leaders had again ignored the wishes of the party's