The Center for Women's Global Leadership has called a "16 days of activism against gender violence" campaign, culminating in an International Day Against Violence Against Women on November 25. The first such campaign was held in 1991. The centre
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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
Jennifer Thompson A report on the human rights situation in the Kosovo region since 1994 has revealed that Serbian police are continuing to repress the Albanian majority. Kosovo was an autonomous province of Serbia until 1989 when Serb nationalist
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
On October 26 and 27 women around Australia will take part in the annual Reclaim the Night march, demanding an end to violence against women and children. Reclaim the Night marches in recent years have been attracting large numbers of women, many of
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 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
By James Balowski "Please do something, we can't see the young people, they have all disappeared." This appeal, related to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly by a resident of Matadouro, a suburb of Dili, conveys a sense of what "restoring law and order" means for the
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
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
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
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
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