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BY JACKIE LYNCH MELBOURNE — Fifty people attended a Socialist Alliance barbeque in Northcote's Jika Jika Community Centre on February 16 to launch the alliance's election campaign for the Darebin council. The Socialist Alliance is standing
BY NGLINTING DARMONO YOGYAKARTA — There's no such thing as a wholly "natural" disaster. The recent catastrophic floods in Jakarta and along the northern coast of Java, which claimed at least 200 lives, were no exception. The Dutch colonial
BY ALISON DELLIT The rapid unravelling of Governor General Peter Hollingworth's credibility highlights the problems inherent in having an appointed head of state. By February 22, media monitor Rehame estimated, based on talkback radio responses,
BY PIP HINMAN The last time I was prevented from attending a political meeting was in Indonesia last June. The paramilitary police, together with their right-wing militia friends, shut down the Jakarta Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference
BY TAFADZWA CHOTO HARARE — Around 1500-2000 people mobilised on February 15 under the slogan, "No to dictatorship, no to neo-liberal poverty". Earlier that day, the High Court had refused hear the organisers' urgent application against the
BY CHRIS ATKINSON DARWIN — There are not many places in Darwin for young people to hang out. Casuarina shopping mall is the main place. But the centre's management and its private security firm, Group 4, are often less than welcoming of young
Cuban tours MELBOURNE — More than 60 people met on February 20 for a public forum titled "From Cuba to Argentina: popular resistance to war and neo-liberal globalisation". Barbara Cantero, a representative of the Cuban Communist Youth (UJC),
BY SUE BULL& JEREMY SMITH The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is a young union by Australian standards. Formed in 1995 from five existing unions, it now represents more than 25,000 workers in post-secondary education institutions. The NTEU
BY SARAH PEART GLASGOW — Fifty delegates attended the founding conference of the Scottish Socialist Party's youth network, Scottish Socialist Youth, on February 9. A central campaign for the SSY will be a campaign to legalise cannabis. Two very
Museworthy: The Unshared Our hearts are shrinking to fit our leader's chestThe press have been speaking with him againand he fills their papers and screens with wordswhich excuse himIn whose eyes?Does anyone look?From his hands grow the shadows
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Manufacturing union organiser Greg Cooper joined a delegation of business leaders on February 22 to appeal to the federal government for financial assistance to shipbuilding company Incat. The union's call for
BY BERNIE WUNSCH LISMORE — The refugee solidarity movement in the Northern Rivers region has grown rapidly. Around 400 people attended pro-refugee meetings in the space of four days. The February 15 launch of the Lismore chapter of