My Dog Tooth Tattoo
(Dedicated to the UTS, Sydney, student bitten by an Alsatian dog during an early morning SWAT raid on a student occupation)
I know that you love me,But it's not a nice thing to do,To leave on my armA dog tooth tattoo.I cowered
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With the removal of Suharto, the Indonesian democracy movement has achieved a huge victory, but it continues to struggle for real democracy. As part of promoting solidarity with the democracy movement, Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East
Pro-choice vigil a success
By Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — More than 100 people gathered on the steps of the State Library here on May 28, the International Day of Action for Reproductive Rights. The vigil was organised by the Pro-Choice Coalition.
By Sue Boland
Compulsory military service will be declared if an amnesty fails to bring back about 15,000 army deserters, Anuruddha Ratwatte, Sri Lanka's deputy defence minister, announced in early May. The government is threatening to impose
To whom it may concern
I'm not one prone to whingeing. I take what the world dishes out on the chin because that's the kind of person I am: forthright, earnest, straight as a die.
However — and I say this only because I think I've earned
Public works key to jobs, say socialists
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "A large-scale program of public works, including schools, child-care centres, public transport and leisure facilities, is the key to creating thousands of new jobs", the
ANU staff/student strike
By Will Williams
CANBERRA — More than 200 Australian National University staff and
students braved the frosty 7.30am start for a strike and rally here on
May 29. The action, the latest in a campaign to
Court victory for East Timor protesters
DARWIN — Two prominent members of Australians for a Free East Timor have had convictions for disorderly conduct overturned by the NT Supreme Court. Sally Anne Watson and Vaughan Williams were charged after
Victory against Rio Tinto
By Alison Dellit
NEWCASTLE — Workers at Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley No. 1 coalmine have rejected management's Australian Workplace Agreement proposal in a secret ballot. The Construction, Mining, Forestry and Energy
Capital Burning
Indonesia burnswhile Suharto fiddles the books.East Timor burnswith greed for blood and oil.Forests burnand crony capital fans the flames.But the heathas gone undergroundand fuels the fireburning in the people.Now the peopleburn for
On May 26, demonstrators marched to the Indonesian embassy in Port Moresby calling on the new Indonesian leader to grant the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya its independence. They presented a petition signed by pro-independence leaders Michael
Military assault and riots in Solo
By Terry A. Nelson
In recent months, anyone travelling through Indonesia would unavoidably
be drawn into the events that have come into the international spotlight
news after a long struggle of the
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