GLW issue 325, published 1998-07-22.

Resistance to racism: a statement of dissent

Resistance to racism: a statement of dissent The following statement was adopted at the 27th national conference of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, held in Melbourne, July 11-13. Secondary students across the

European left discusses globalisation

European left discusses globalisation By Margaret Allan COPENHAGEN — The 14th meeting of the New European Left Forum was held here June 19-21. Those attending came from 17 countries in Europe, including the Party of Democratic Socialism

Jolyon Campbell

By Rurik Davidson On July 2 long-time activist Jolyon Campbell died at the age of 27. Activists in Melbourne will remember Jolyon as a towering man with long black hair, as gentle and soft-spoken as he was large. Jolyon was a member of the

Business cheers as ACT budget hits workers

By Lara Pullin The ACT Liberal chief minister and treasurer, Kate Carnell, delivered a few more blows to the average worker in the 1998-99 budget on June 23. Carnell touted the budget as a vision for the "clever, caring capital", but increased fees

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Australian News

Biggest Students and Sustainability Conference ever

By Tony Iltis HOBART — More than 600 students and activists gathered at the Students and Sustainability Conference (S&S), held at the University of Tasmania and the Lea Scout Camp, July 6-10. The conference is an annual forum of student

Genocide charges laid against Howard, Fischer, Hanson and Harradine

By Kim Bullimore CANBERRA — Aboriginal elder Wadjularbinna Nulyarimma from the Gungalidda people and three other Aboriginal applicants have filed a motion with the ACT Supreme Court asking that John Howard, Tim Fischer, Pauline Hanson and Brian

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International News

Abiola's death spoils dictatorship's rehabilitation

By Norm Dixon The sudden death of Moshood Abiola, the imprisoned winner of Nigeria's 1993 presidential election, has thrown into disarray the west's efforts to rehabilitate the brutal and corrupt military dictatorship. From June 8, when dictator

Russian labour's restless summer

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — On Russia's labour scene, July traditionally has been a quiet month. Workers by mid-summer have been ready to set off on holiday, or to spend the warm, twilit evenings relaxing on their garden allotments. True, a

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Editorial

Stop privatisation of Telstra

Editorial: Stop privatisation of Telstra Mal Colston, the ex-ALP senator, with the words �on balance ... at this stage�, derailed the Coalition's first attempt to fully privatise Telstra. Prime Minister John Howard, however, has not given up

Cultural Dissent

At home with the WASPs

A Delicate BalanceBy Edward AlbeeSydney Theatre CompanyOpera House Drama Theatre By Mark Stoyich Edward Albee became one of the US's most famous postwar playwrights almost entirely on the basis of one play; but what a play! Who's Afraid of Virginia

The writer who believed what he was told

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His LifeBy D.M. ThomasLittle, Brown and Company, 1998. 583 pp., $45.00 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon February 9, 1945, was the turning point in the life of Captain Alexander Solzhenitsyn. An officer in the Red

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