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Musos for East Timor

Love from a short distanceVarious artistsShock RecordsReviewed by Nick Fredman The range of artists who contributed to this excellent compilation is an example of the growing support for the East Timorese people's struggle for self determination.

Jenny Dodd

Jenny Dodd 7/10/50 — 4/10/96 Jenny Dodd died at home on October 4 after a long fight with cancer. Jenny's life was devoted to working with and helping others. Within a week of escaping to a women's refuge out of a difficult marriage many

Letter from the US: Canadian auto strike and occupation show the way

Canadian auto strike and occupation show the way The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) forced General Motors to accept a favourable contract on October 22 after a three-week strike during which workers took over a plant in Oshawa, Ontario. "Like a

Write on: Letters to the editor

Land rights Th Aboriginal Land Rights controversy could so easily be resolved, and in the process the word "Rent" could be used to replace words like "Tax" and "taxation" in some areas. Let us agree that land titles were not extinguished: that

Man-made Creutzfeldt-Jakob and mad cow disease

Man-made Creutzfeldt-Jakob and mad cow disease By Lynette J. Dumble Revelations in Britain have brought a new dimension to the incurable brain infections, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in

Help complete the picture

How important is an independent, progressive newspaper to you? For months now the establishment media has been giving Hanson and her fellow racists almost limitless coverage, reporting each bigoted statement with glee in the knowledge that stirring

Do unto others

By Allen Myers Do unto others as they do unto others. Especially when the first others are the US government. This is evidently the sound reasoning of two Canadian Liberal MPs, John Godfrey and Peter Milliken. Godfrey and Milliken, like a great

Where to for the conservation movement?

By Felicity Wade In the second in a series of articles on future directions for the environment movement, FELICITY WADE takes up some of the issues being discussed in the Wilderness Society about the way forward for the conservation movement. The

International news briefs

Workers oppose PNG Telikom deregulation The Papua New Guinea Communications Workers Union will take industrial action to protect PNG's telecommunications utility, Telikom. A bill to remove Telikom's monopoly of telecommunications services and

Victorian teachers stop work

By Norrian Rundle Despite promises of no more cuts, the Victorian government has announced another round of attacks on state schools. This time, no dollar value has been attached to the cuts. One hundred and thirteen schools have been targeted for

Williamson without bite

Life of Riley: The importance of being earnest The difference between the value created by a worker and the cost of maintaining him or her is not as constant as the business community would have us believe. Generally, wages must be driven down

International solidarity campaign with Indonesian democracy activists begins

Pickets, vigils, hunger strikes, press conferences, petitions and protest letters were organised around the world on October 28, the International Day of Protest for Human Rights and Democracy in Indonesia called by Action in Solidarity with