Fight back discussed
SYDNEY — Around 100 people attended a forum titled "Defend our services, defend our unions" at the Transport Workers Club on August 10. The forum was organised by the Community Action Group.
Speakers included John Sutton,
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By Jacquie Moon
On July 21, 1968, the Sydney Sunday Telegraph reported that "a well-organised youth movement is recruiting school children in NSW with slogans like 'Support the NLF'. The organisation, Resistance, openly supports the opposing forces
Indonesian activist undaunted by attack
JAKARTA — DHYTA CATURANI, an activist in Indonesia's People's Democratic Party (PRD), was shot and severely beaten in a police and military attack on the party's July 1 rally outside the electoral
Until recently, the oceans seemed so vast that no-one could imagine humans damaging them. Now, however, a decade of scientific research has shown that this view is mistaken. Human activities are degrading the oceans in numerous ways. The dominant
By Nick Fredman
LISMORE — Friends of East Timor (FET) groups and supporters of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in northern NSW have organised successful events in solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor. In Byron Bay on July 4, 120 people attended a screening
Rejecting a phony choice
In 1979, environmentalists in Tasmania launched a campaign to protect pristine wilderness rivers in the state's south-west from plans by the Hydro Electric Commission to construct a dam on the lower Gordon, which would have
The pain of crossed paths
Haunted by the PastBy Dr Ruby Langford-GinibiAllen & Unwin, 1999$17.95 (pb) Reviewed by Ray Jackson
On July 5, I had the great honour to launch Dr Ruby Langford-Ginibi's new book, her fourth, Haunted by the Past. I
By Rohan Pearce
HOBART — Discussions between Resistance and Keep Left (a student electoral grouping made up of members from the Non-Aligned Left (NAL) and Tasmania University Greens), about forming a united left ticket to intervene in the
By John Rainford
If organising the working class is narrowly construed as organising workers into unions, then it must be said that we've gone from being pretty good at it to being pretty crook. Australia was once the most highly unionised country
Dorf and Beauty Ware picketers defiant
By Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at the Beauty Ware and Dorf factories in Melbourne's south-east are maintaining picket lines in their battle to save their jobs.
By Iggy Kim
Since prehistoric times, humanity has been on the move. Driven by material compulsion, we have made the entire planet our own, adapting to all manner of climate and topography along the way. With the rise of class society, migration
JAKARTA — Shalar Kosi is the secretary general of the Socialist Party of Timor (PST). In an interview with Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, he stressed that the crucial question for socialists in East Timor is building bases among the people.
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