Brandon Astor Jones, the author of the weekly "Looking Out" column in Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, believes that the prison authorities are withholding his personal mail. He usually receives 10 to 50 letters a week, but for the past few months he has been
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Media sell us the rope to hang them
BY JODY BETZIEN
MELBOURNE — The planned September 11 protests have become the story of the moment for the corporate media — and the most screaming of the screaming headlines are being devoted to a planned
Why Pearson is wrong on Aboriginal welfare
BY SIMON BUTLER
Former Labor prime minister Ben Chifley was no radical. He was a staunch supporter of the "white Australia policy" and infamously called in the army to break the coalminers' strike in
Mal returns to form
'Tis a delightful irony of Australian politics that Malcolm Fraser should reinvent himself as a radical. Anyone who has been cohabiting with the man within the four walls of Australia these last so many years knows that Big
Death of Indian Marxist Arvind N. Das
Distinguished Indian Marxist intellectual Arvind N. Das died on August 7, just a month before he would have turned 52, in Amsterdam's Free University Hospital. A fortnight earlier, he had suffered a cardiac
Workers draw line at Godfrey Hirst
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — A two-week strike at the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory looks set to escalate this week with textile workers likely to join members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)
IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets
IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets
United States and British warplanes attacked sites in northern Iraq on August 15. This followed heavy bombardment in southern Iraq on August 10-12. The air strikes
COMMENT BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — Prime Minister John Howard and Victorian Premier Steve Bracks are now both on record decrying planned September 11 (S11) protests against the World Economic Forum as likely to be "violent". The protest
THAILAND: Villagers seize dam, demand justice
VILLAGE OF THE POOR, northern Thailand — It's early morning in the Kaeng Tana National Park and I'm on the verandah of a guesthouse overlooking the wide brown Moon River, just above its confluence
Welfare 'reform' aims to attack the poor
The Coalition government is carrying out a "reform" of the social security, or "welfare", system. This is part of its multifaceted policy for shifting the burden of the problems of the economy onto poor and
Refugee detention centres have to go!
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Chanting "Refugees yes, racism no, detention centres have got to go" and "Free the refugees now!", more than 1500 people marched on the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on
Campaign 2000 industrial action
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
MELBOURNE — Industrial action associated with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's (AMWU) "Campaign 2000" is on the rise as the union campaigns for employers to agree to its claims
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