The '60s produced some inspirational politics and music of protest in the USA. But one of the less glorious products of this decade of defiance was the Weather Underground, which borrowed its name ("Weatherman", initially) from the Dylan classic, "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
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CANBERRA — Meetings of Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services (HFS) voted overwhelmingly two weeks ago to oppose the certified agreement being proposed by
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CANBERRA — Around 80 people wanting to invest in socially critical humour snapped up the latest portfolio offer in Hinze cartoon stock at a launch of Heinrich Hinze's newest cartoon float on October 13 at Tilley's in Lyneham.
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Phil Shnnon reviews Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth Century Controversies, by Christopher Hill.
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Most people now agree that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 50 years ago was a tragedy. But for 50 years, the myth that it was also necessary has been argued by political and military supporters of nuclear weapons. All
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Was World War II the continuation of World War I, i.e. an imperialist war that the international working class should have opposed? Or was World War II an anti-fascist war that everybody in the Allied countries should have
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Fight continues over agency bargainingCANBERRA — Community and Public Sector Union delegates and members in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (HSH) in the ACT are opposing certification of the
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Agency bargaining scrapes throughCANBERRA — An agency bargaining agreement has been narrowly accepted by members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) in the federal Department of Human Services and Health. With
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A recent radio phone-in on the ABC on "Has Political Correctness (PC) gone too far?" had all callers agreeing that it had. They lamented that certain kinds of jokes can not be told without the teller being accused of being a
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Chomsky in CanberraCANBERRA — Noam Chomsky addressed the National Press Club here on January 24, speaking on East Timor as a microcosm of world order. The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in 1975, he said, has required
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Agency bargaining rush is on in HSHCANBERRA — Departmental management and the national officials of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are priming union members for the adoption of an agency
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Agency bargaining revived in HSHCANBERRA — Agency bargaining in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (HSH) has been resurrected from near death by the national officials of the Community