By Jill Hickson
Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) will launch the second phase of its "Free the Political Prisoners" campaign at its national conference, in Sydney over the August 22-24 weekend. The conference — at the
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By Tim Walgers and Chris Dawson
Around 200 people attended a rally to protest the launching of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party in Toowoomba on July 27. The lively demonstration, organised by the Brisbane and Toowoomba Anti-Racist Campaigns,
ANU staff to strike
CANBERRA — Members of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union at the Australian National University voted on July 30 to begin rolling stoppages in response to the university management's move to sack 100 staff.
By Dave Riley
The restoration of the IRA cease-fire has again raised hopes of an end to 25 years of war in northern Ireland. The previous cease-fire collapsed because no meaningful negotiations were pursued. For the 18 months of the cessation,
By Kylie Moon
HOBART — On July 30, at 1.30pm, students across the University of Tasmania campus blew 500 whistles distributed to protest against the university administration's decision to reduce the end of year exam period, and introduce
Hands up
"Labor women have a great deal of difficulty in getting preselected for safe seats because the boys always put their hands up for them." — Anne Scott, seeking ALP preselection for Oxley but likely to lose out to former Queensland
By Tony Lim
BRISBANE — On July 29, the Ipswich City Council banned the use of council facilities by the racist Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. The next day Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley said he fully supported Ipswich council's decision
FAROOQ TARIQ, 42, is general secretary of Jeddojuhd Inqilabi Tehrik (Revolutionary Struggle Movement), a left-wing organisation committed to the promotion of working-class politics and socialism in Pakistan. JIT was founded by the supporters of the
Comment by Dave Riley
BRISBANE — If you were perhaps fearing that the Hanson band wagon would proceed unchecked, worry no more. The Australian Labor Party has left its best to last: one time battlers' hero and local identity Wayne Goss is keen
Factor Four: Doubling Wealth — Halving Resource UseBy Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter LovinsAllen & Unwin, 1997. 322 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Allen Myers
Is there a "technological fix" to the ecological crisis?
Queensland CPSU president resigns
By Graham Mathews
BRISBANE — The Community and Public Sector Union's Queensland president, Andrew Finegan, resigned on July 14 citing the union's poor leadership in the campaign to protect public sector
By Paula Ajuria
On July 2, extensive coverage was given by the Spanish media to masses of Spaniards celebrating the release by the Spanish police of a man held hostage by Basque separatist organisation ETA. The hostage, Ortega Lara, was
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