Leigh Hughes

  • Bombing causes 'worst teaching day in 30 years'

    The official beginning of the US-led war on Iraq was the catalyst for the abandonment of classrooms and the closure of several schools on March 20, as hundreds of students walked out in protest. In the following days, not only did

  • Anti-war organising to be focus of Resistance conference

    Refugee activists, trade union militants, free education campaigners and socialists by the trainload are to gather at Trades Hall this weekend to discuss and further their respective struggles. They will be attending the 31st

  • Bush's racist war on the Third World

    "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United

  • Government launches offensive on forests

    CANBERRA — For months "Fort Badja" has been a base of operations for environmentalists seeking to stop the logging of New South Wales' south-east forests. But that changed on November 20, when 30 police removed six forest

  • 'End military ties with murderers!'

    CANBERRA — Hunger strikers chained themselves to the fence of the Indonesian embassy on August 16 to highlight the fact that Indonesia currently has more political prisoners than when the dictator Suharto fell in 1998. An effigy

  • The rise and fall of a broad left ticket

    CANBERRA — A common lament heard on university campuses around Australia in the last month has been: "Damn, it's the third term." It reflects the level of enthusiasm for the student government election period. Years of

  • The Green "tide" hits Canberra

    CANBERRA — "It was five years in the making but worth every minute of it", Australian Greens senator Bob Brown said of the Global Greens conference, held in Canberra's National Convention Centre on April 14-16. Centred on the

  • Lift the sanctions on Iraq!

    Lift the sanctions on Iraq!When asked in 1996 about the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children from United States-enforced sanctions against the country, US secretary of state Madeleine Albright declared "the price is worth it".

  • Senate rejects support for West Papua

    Senate rejects support for West PapuaCANBERRA — The Coalition and Labor have both voted against a Senate motion, put by Greens Senator Bob Brown on November 23, which would have recognised the overwhelming support for

  • ACT teachers mobilise

    ACT teachers mobiliseCANBERRA — On August 11, more than 2000 teachers stopped work to discuss a new enterprise bargaining agreement. At the half-day meeting, attended by 85% of ACT teachers, the Australian Education Union

  • Who wins from work for the dole?

    CANBERRA — The Productivity Commission's recent research paper, "Productivity and the Structure of Employment", revealed that teenagers' percentage of the work force had fallen from 10.6% to 6.7%, while 20- to