Mermaid AvenueBilly Bragg and WilcoWarner Music Review by James Smith
"The world is filled with people who are no longer needed/ And who try to make slaves of us/ And they have their music and we have ours/ Theirs, the wasted songs of a
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By Marina Carman
SYDNEY — Last year a proposal was raised in a number of left student groups that only women members should vote in candidate preselections for women's officers. This position was adopted by the Activist Left group on Sydney
By Yakov Ben Efrat
Abdallah Ocalan, the revered leader of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), was abducted from Nairobi on February 15 by the Turkish Special Forces. The event spurred worldwide protests. Ocalan represents 20 million Kurds in
One world
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science." — William Wordsworth In the same way that I have chosen sisters and
Palm Sunday marches oppose Jabiluka mine
Anti-uranium protesters used marches held around Australia on March 28 (Palm Sunday) to focus attention on stopping the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. The
Profiting from rape
According to Rekha Pande, the women's studies course vice-president at Hyderabad in India, the country's Prime Minister had a special ugadi (new year) gift for women on March 19. In collaboration with insurance companies, the
Is the Communist Manifesto still relevant?
The Communist ManifestoBy Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsWith a commentary by Leon TrotskyResistance Books, 199880pp., $6.95 (pb) Review by Chris Slee
Generations of socialists have read the Moscow
NTEU highlights education decline
By Jeremy Smith
The stand-off between the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the senior management at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Sydney University, along with a proposed strike at
Struth!
"On the GST question, the [public] doubts are again growing as to whether a new tax is really a reform at all." — Pollster Rod Cameron, complaining that the Howard government is doing enough to "educate" us in economic orthodoxy.
Love them bombs!
War's a terrible thing, terrible. — 'tis.
It's no way to conduct business.
— No way.
I mean, look at this thing what's happenin' at the moment.
— Terrible it is.
You turn on the telly and they tell ya the bombs are
NATO
hands off Serbia! Serbia out of Kosova!
The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance condemn the United
States-led NATO military aggression against Serbia, as well as the political
support given to this aggression by John Howard's
Teachers say 'negotiate'
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Hundreds of education workers gathered in Victoria Square on March 30 to call on the state government to negotiate genuinely on an enterprise agreement. High school principal and Australian
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