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Students go underground for M1

BY GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — More than 500 issues of Student Underground, a new newsletter produced by secondary students which promotes International Women's Day and the May 1 blockade of the city's stock exchange, have been greeted with enthusiasm

M1 Alliance meetings

Adelaide: Thurs Feb 15, 6pm. 5th flr, Union Bldg, Adelaide Uni (Nth Tce). Ph 8231 6982 or <m1adelaide@start.com.au>. Brisbane: Wed Feb 14, 6pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. Ph 3831 2644. Canberra: Anti-corporate teach-in. Sat

IWD kickstarted in north coast

BY KATH O'DRISCOLL LISMORE — Plans are underway here to organise International Women's Day, the region's first for two years. Women from different parts of the region having been meeting to prepare a march and rally, multicultural fair day, art

... and ain't i a woman?: Mislaid blame

Federal Minister for Community Services Larry Anthony said on January 18 that he was "appalled" by the statistics that reveal one separated man suicides every day in this country. He was emphasising support for the federal government's $16.5 million

Court upholds fine on environmentalist

BY GEOFF FRANCIS HOBART — Environmentalist Sarah Bayne turned herself in to the Hobart magistrates' court on February 6 for non-payment of a $5000 fine imposed in 1998 after she was arrested in a protest at Mother Cummings Peak. Bayne had

DSP, ISO agree on Socialist Alliance perspectives

BY PETER BOYLE  Following the January 25 call by the Democratic Socialist Party for a socialist electoral alliance to contest the coming federal elections, a formation meeting on February 17 has been convened jointly by the DSP and

UNITED STATES: California's power crisis a product of capitalism

SAN FRANCISCO — The Los Angeles Times ran a cartoon that graphically shows the situation California's consumers find ourselves in today: two big pulley wheels sucking in a consumer. The top wheel says, "power suppliers" and the bottom wheel,

Qld socialist candidates: 'strike against corporate tyranny'

BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — "The movement to challenge corporate power is a growing and unstoppable force for fundamental change", said Adam Baker, one of the two Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) candidates standing in the Queensland elections on

Write on: letters to the editor

NUS factionalism My article, titled "Why Resistance left the National Broad Left" in Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly #435, unintentionally omitted some important details. Controversy about the carve-up of official positions brokered between the "left" Labor

UNITED STATES: Heading for a recession?

BY EVA CHENG Whether the US economy is plunging into a recession is the $64 million question of the day. Preliminary data for the December quarter suggests that US gross domestic product was growing at an annual rate of only 1.4% at the end of

Higher education on the line

BY VIV MILEY Labor leader Kim Beazley launched his plan for a "knowledge nation" at the National Press Club on January 24. At its core is a proposal to establish a University of Australia Online which would enrol an additional 100,000 undergraduate

Networker: Silencing cyberspace?

Silencing cyberspace? Really annoyed about something? Want to get your message across, but you don't own a newspaper, radio or television station? You can always buy a can of spray paint and find a local wall. That sounds simplistic,