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Socialists explain why I hate school so much!

Education For Slavery or Liberation?By Jo WilliamsResistance Books, 199922pp, $2.95 Review by Kim Collins Jo Williams explains that the education system is one of the capitalist system's central means of disseminating capitalist ideology. It

Queensland NTEU takes action

Queensland NTEU takes action By Justin Randell and Adam Baker BRISBANE — Academics, students and general staff have taken action for better enterprise bargaining agreements at the University of Queensland, Griffith University and Queensland

Pacific islanders protest plutonium shipments

By Jim Green Pacific islanders are organising to stop the passage of plutonium reactor fuel from Europe to Japan through South Pacific waters. Two ships carrying mixed uranium-plutonium (MOX) fuel will pass through the Tasman Sea in late August or

Gatton students defend their college

Gatton students defend their college By Robyn Marshall About 200 students from the agricultural college in the small town of Gatton, about an hour's drive from Brisbane, opposed a University of Queensland administration proposal to close the

Downer in Dili: what wasn't reported

Downer in Dili: what wasn't reported By Sam King DILI — The Australian government, forced to recognise that some form of political change in East Timor is inevitable whatever the result of the referendum, has been attempting to woo the

Wealth and health

Thirty years of scientific research have established that the most powerful predictor of human disease is economic inequality. The main public health problem of our time is growing inequality of income, wealth and status. The New York Times reported

An insider's view of the Maritime Union

An insider's view of the Maritime Union Until July 1998, BOB CARNEGIE was a branch organiser with the South Queensland branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA). He was also a longtime member and former Queensland president of the Maritime