University of Tasmania general staff vote for NTEU
By Dave Abbott
HOBART — General staff at the University of Tasmania recently voted overwhelmingly for a greater choice of union membership. A group of general staff organised a secret
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Celebration of lifeCelebration of life
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Even the death of friends will inspire us as much as their lives ... Their memories will be encrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other[s]
US black activist defies deportation threat
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "Racism is an international phenomenon", former US Black Panther Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin told a meeting at the Opal Centre on July 16, as he continued his speaking tour of
letterhead = Dishonest reporting
[This letter has been sent to the Melbourne Sunday Age.]
On July 13 Melbourne's Sunday Age ran an article which made some serious allegations, accusing the Campaign Against Racism of being "the group behind
One Nation spies on anti-racist campaign
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — The One Nation party has launched a dirty tricks campaign to discredit the anti-racist movement. The July 14 Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC) meeting was infiltrated by a One
Suspect History: Manning Clark and the Future of Australia's PastBy Humphrey McQueenWakefield Press, 1997238 pp., $17.95(pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Australia's history, if a certain resident of Kirribilli House is to be believed, has been one of
On July 26, revolutionaries around the world will celebrate the 44th anniversary of the storming of the Moncada Barracks in Cuba by young revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro.To mark the event, the following is abridged from a talk on Che Guevara
City of Darkness, City of LightBy Marge PiercyMichael Joseph, 1997. 479 pp., $29.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
When a brilliant novelist meets a great revolution, the result is a magnificent novel by Marge Piercy that brings alive the colour,
Anti-Hanson campaign meeting called
By Liam Mitchell
SYDNEY — In response to the One Nation party seeking to establish branches in northern and western suburbs, the Campaign Against Racism has called an open meeting to organise opposition
By John Wilson
The NSW Labor government is allowing a private company to destroy an irreplaceable public asset, risking downstream communities, industries and jobs. Near Tenterfield, in northern NSW, Ross Mining has all but final approval for
By Andrew Woodroffe
Water, gas and electricity services are supplied by very large organisations using centralised, large-scale and environmentally destructive technology. Deregulation and restructuring of the electricity industry are allowing
Senegal was a French colony until it became independent in 1960. It contains about 20 distinct ethnic groups in its population of 8 million.The country has been facing a huge economic and social crisis that has its roots in the increase in debt and a structural adjustment program launched in the early 1980s.
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