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A history of defiance

Pink TriangleBy Miranda MorrisUniversity of NSW Press, $26.95Reviewed by Fiona Carnes "Damned in the eyes of the world" was the headline on the front page of the Hobart Mercury following the decision of the United Nations Human Rights Committee that

Netherlands threatens Iranian asylum seekers

By Jennifer Thompson A May 25 announcement by the Netherlands Justice Ministry of a plan to arbitrarily deport more than 4000 Iranian asylum seekers by declaring Iran a "safe" country has received an angry response from the Council of Iranian

Depo Provera campaign launched

By Margarita Windisch Depo Provera is a long-acting hormonal contraceptive administered in three-monthly injections. It has been praised by the medical profession for its effectiveness. There is, however, considerable controversy surrounding the

Calls for trade union solidarity group

By Sue Bolton MELBOURNE — A broad range of trade unionists met on June 19 to discuss Howard's industrial relations bill and how to fight it. The meeting was organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and Militant. Luke Van der Muelen, from the

BHP caught polluting water at Whyalla

By Jon Lamb ADELAIDE — Chemical sampling results released by Greenpeace on June 17 show that the waters surrounding BHP's Whyalla steelworks have levels of zinc and ammonia up to 320 times above Environment Protection Authority licence

Make the rich pay

By Lisa Macdonald and Dick Nichols Since the Premiers' Conference and the Council of Australian Governments meeting on June 13 and 14, the competition between federal and state governments in the game of blame has been fierce. But the debate

Okinawan landowners' struggle

This is the abridged text of a speech by Shumei Ikehara, the general secretary of the Antiwar Landowners Association of Okinawa, at a May 25 public meeting in Tokyo. The Japanese government's plan to expropriate our land is facing many problems. In

Playing the race card — again

Given the Coalition's attacks on Aborigines' and migrants' rights, and the formation of new extreme right parties such as Australia First, the results of a June 14-16 national poll on immigration provide further evidence of the progress being made by

Victory for right to choose

By Janet Parker SYDNEY — On May 14, abortion clinic worker Dianne Unger won an unprecedented victory for pro-choice forces. On this day she took her most vociferous "pro-life" opponent — Carolyn O'Loughlin — to court and succeeded in

'Patching up' the alliance

By Reihana Mohideen OSAKA — At midnight on March 31, the lease on a piece of land inside a US base in Okinawa expired, making the Japanese government an illegal occupant of the plot on the Sobe Communication Site (a radar installation commonly

A bad time for satire

Age and Guile (beat youth, innocence and a bad haircut): 25 Years of P.J. O'RourkeBy P.J.O'RourkePicador (pb), $14.95Reviewed by Dave Riley All you classical scholars out there will know that satire has been around for quite some time. What with

Raging better than ever

Evil EmpireRage Against the MachineSony MusicReviewed by Michael Bramwell "Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare", "The Marx-Engels Reader", "Women in the Transition to Socialism", "The Indian Uprising in Chiapas". Not titles one would expect to be