Bureaucracy lives! "Anyone who manufactures, tests, launches or drops a nuclear bomb within the City of Toronto is violating official policy." — Toronto City Council announcement in the Toronto Globe and Mail. Question ... "Essentially, a number of
208
By Karen Fletcher Is having more women in "positions of power" the best strategy for achieving women's liberation? Some in the women's movement believe so, and are actively campaigning for more women to enter parliament. The newly-formed Australian
By Karen Fry NEWCASTLE — Fifty people protested outside the Department of Training and Education's regional office in Newcastle on October 16. The focus of the action was the Carr government's decision, announced in the October 9 state budget, to
Writeon Thuggishness Nothing incenses Rupert Murdoch more than the possibility of reduced profits and he quickly launched an attack on Coles Myer directors who allegedly threatened to withdraw up to $88 million in advertising and printing from News
By Tony Iltis CANBERRA — The history of the revolutionary socialist movement in Australia was the subject of the 1995 Jim Percy Memorial Lecture on October 18. Delivered by Democratic Socialist Party national secretary John Percy, the lecture
Filipino women campaign against sex touris By Carla Gorton ADELAIDE — Nine years ago, as a sociology student, my eyes were opened to the plight of "mail-order" Filipino brides at the hands of their Australian "sponsors". While the business of sex
Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, Gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and
The Communist Party in Western Australia played an important and often leading role in winning social gains from the 1930s to the 1960s. This was despite the difficulties of building a party from a very small membership, relative isolation from the
By Allen Myers PHNOM PENH — Guests arriving for a French commercial promotion at the Hotel Cambodiana on October 16 were met by several dozen demonstrators wearing T-shirts which demanded an end to French nuclear tests in the Pacific and handing
Trotsky as AlternativeBy Ernest MandelVerso, 1995, 186 pp., $44.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Leon Trotsky has defied the efforts of enemies and friends alike to wilfully or inadvertently blacken the political heritage of one of the twentieth
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — A Labor Party committee, chaired by former federal president Mick Young, has called for widespread internal reform. The report paints a picture of a party, run by a chosen few, ruling over a membership which believes the
At the Barricades (1981) Radical Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett's autobiography covers the high spots of politics from the 1930s to the end of the 1970s. A reporter during World War II, Burchett was the first western journalist to report on
- Page 1
- Next page