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Big business and the farm crisis

BY SUE BOLAND "If the profitable third of our farmers were able to represent the industry and set the agenda for debate we would hear a rural voice with constructive ideas ... Instead, the debate is driven by the unprofitable rump ... who yearn for

VIETNAM: Revolutionary dies

HANOI — Pham Van Dong, one of Vietnam's most prominent revolutionary leaders, died on April 29 at the age of 94. Born in the central province of Quang Ngai, he began his revolutionary career in 1924 at the age of 18. Two years later he joined the

Be part of the solution

Be part of the solution The following speech was presented by JOHN PERCY to the May Day celebration jointly organised by the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and the Worker Communist Party of Iraq at Granville Town Hall, Sydney, on May

BRITAIN: London Socialist Alliance campaign an 'astounding success'

BRITAIN: London Socialist Alliance campaign an 'astounding success' Summarised below are two reports by the LONDON SOCIALIST ALLIANCE (LSA) central office which assess the alliance's performance in the May 4 election for the newly created Greater

INDONESIA: The movement for people's art and culture

REVITRIYOSO HUSODO and SRI WAHYUNINGSIH of the People's Cultural Network (JAKER) in Indonesia spoke to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's JULIA PERKINS during her recent visit there.   JAKER is sustained by a belief in socialist realist art and

Queensland teachers to strike

Queensland teachers to strike BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Teachers at Sarina High School in north Queensland are to defy the state Industrial Relations Commission and strike for 24 hours on May 23, and other schools will hold stop-work meetings to

Dismantling Abstudy: the Coalition's 'practical reconciliation'

Dismantling Abstudy: the Coalition's 'practical reconciliation' BY KIM BULLIMORE AND SUE GREEN For almost 30 years, Abstudy has been one of the key components of ensuring increased educational opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Food irradiation plant planned in Queensland

BY SEAN HEALY Opponents of food irradiation will return to the Queensland Planning and Environment Court on June 5 seeking to block an application to allow medical and biotechnology company Steritech to build a nuclear irradiation plant in

Real solutions needed to reduce drug-use harm

BY JOSEPH KIM MELBOURNE — Riding a tram in Bourke Street recently, I caught sight of a middle-aged man in an expensive suit with his chin resting upon his chest, his head intermittently jerking to "attention" as his body instinctively prevented

NOAM CHOMSKY: The capitalist 'principle' and Third World debt

BY NOAM CHOMSKY The simplest answer to the argument that countries who borrowed from the World Bank/International Monetary Fund have no right to ask for debt forgiveness is that the presupposition is false, so the argument is vacuous. For example,

Easter forest camp destroyed

Easter forest camp destroyed BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON PERTH — Police and officials of the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) stormed the Easter forest camp in Western Australia's south-west forests on May 11, evicting

Fighting corporate terrorism

Fighting corporate terrorism By Bronwen Powell SYDNEY — The socialist youth organisation Resistance has announced it will be holding forums across the country to explain the "globalisation of corporate terrorism" and the need for the