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The future of solidarityThe future of solidarity By Peter Boyle Federal and state governments are doing their best to abolish solidarity. It's against their law for workers for one capitalist to show their solidarity with workers of other
The axe falls on legal aid By Michael Heaney MELBOURNE — The Federation of Community Legal Centres (Victoria) on February 18 announced the release of a report titled "Justice for all", resulting from a survey conducted in November and December.
Student delegation returns from East Timor By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE On February 20, a delegation of six students from the University of Melbourne returned from a 10-day trip to build links between students in Australia and East Timor. Alex
By Paul Oboohov and Tom Flanagan The leadership of the Community and Public Sector Union and its new section council covering the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) have abandoned any pretence of a campaign to
High school students' magazine launched By Tessha Mearing WOLLONGONG — On February 12, high school student members of Resistance launched Revolt — Student Underground. Revolt will be produced twice every term. It aims to inform high school
Reversing capitalism As much as I applaud Alex Bainbridge's sentiment that "all that is needed is for humanity as a whole, rather than the wealthy profiteers, to control production", I am anxious to know how he intends to wrest that control? While
@columhead = Very clean "It is a very clean deal. There is no payment, no nothing." — Businessman and Suharto crony Mohamad Hasan, confirming that the Indonesian government has given him, free, an additional $1 billion share in the Busang gold
Protests against nuclear waste shipment By Pip Hinman The WA Greens have issued a protest against the secrecy and misinformation surrounding a highly dangerous shipment of nuclear waste travelling from France to Japan. "Any mishap would require
By Eva Cheng Deng Xiaoping has been acclaimed by politicians, business figures and other "respectable" commentators around the world as the "architect" of China's "modernisation" following the announcement of his death on February 20. They hailed
Iranian oil workers arrested On February 16, hundreds of oil workers and their elected representatives from petroleum refineries in Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Tehran, together with workers of the oil pipelines and the national gas company, were
Rock Against Racism BRISBANE — An impressive line-up of Brisbane bands swung their support behind a benefit to raise funds for the Anti-Racism Campaign on February 15. Around 300 people attended, with 100 more having to be turned away for lack of
Comment by Dot Tumney Human immune systems are fascinating. Large chunks of medical research are targeting non-reaction, over-reaction and inappropriate reaction. All this is also making clearer the hows and whys of vaccination procedures. At all