Abstudy cuts are racist
By Aaron Benedek
Aborigines suffer an infant mortality rate two to three times that of other Australians. Life expectancy is 18 to 20 years lower. Unemployment among Aboriginal men is over four times that among
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When paranoia makes sense
Enemy of the StateDirected by Tony Scott and produced by Jerry BruckheimerWith Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet and Regina King Review by Norm Dixon
The big business newspaper smartypants all shouted in
'I will always strive to engineer a better society'
By Sue Boland
The Indian revolutionary movement has suffered a double blow with the deaths of Vinod Mishra, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) on December 18,
Greek secondary students in revolt
By James Vassilopoulos
School occupations, mass demonstrations, mass school assemblies and roadblocks are tactics Greek secondary students have used in their militant campaign against the social democratic PASOK
Activists create 'JAILS'
By Jim Green
In 1998, about 500 people were arrested at the Jabiluka uranium mine blockade in the Northern Territory. Many are to face court in coming months. JAILS (Jabiluka Arrestees Information and Legal Support) has
By Ebrahim Afshar
The murdered bodies of two active members of the Iranian Writers Association(IWA) were found on the outskirts of Tehran in December. Later, it was disclosed that the two, who were kidnapped a week apart, were immediately strangled
For 'reconciliation', read 'surrender'
Visiting Uluru on January 13, Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer performed what amounts to an allegory for the government's plan to achieve "reconciliation" with Aboriginal people by the centenary of
Historic houses threatened
By Emma Murphy
MELBOURNE — The planners for Melbourne University Private — an annexe of Melbourne University reserved the rich — have announced the demolition of 18 National Trust-listed terrace houses in Carlton.
Free Mzwakhe Mbuli!
By Dorothy Flynn
Mzwakhe Mbuli, South Africa's beloved poet, musician and movement hero, has been incarcerated for 14 months. He is being held at the Pretoria Local Prison awaiting trial on January 22 for bank robbery. He has
Following is a letter to the Chinese government from XU JIN, daughter of arrested pro-democracy activist XU WENLI. JANUARY 5 — On Monday, November 30th, you jailed my father, Xu Wenli, yet again. This time you accuse him of "subverting the
ERA denies Jabiluka postponement rumours
By Justin Randell Rumours that the Jabiluka mine has been postponed have been denied by Energy Resources of Australia. The rumours originated from a press conference for resource journalists in which ERA
Sentenced to history
It is a feature of existence, often noted in the circles within which I move, that history repeats itself — the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. This may not be an immutable law, but it sure resembles the
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