Rachel Evans

  • Fighting the AIDS pandemic

    BY MAURICE FARRELL& RACHEL EVANS According to a UNAIDS/World Health Organisation report "AIDS Epidemic Update 2003", released on November 25, an estimated 40 million people are now infected with HIV. Three million died last year from AIDS. The

  • Socialist solidarity

    BY RACHEL EVANS & LINDA WALDRON MELBOURNE — With up to 10 picket lines across Melbourne and in Geelong over the past month, the Socialist Alliance has shown how it is possible to offer solidarity to fighting workers. The Geelong branch of the

  • Outworkers take corporate Australia to court

    MELBOURNE &#151 Braving wet and windy conditions on September 26, 45 people came to Melbourne's Federal Court to support the prosecution of 30 companies over alleged breaches of the outworker and contractor provisions of the

  • Refugee Assistance Centre opens

    MELBOURNE — In a sign of growing support for refugees' rights, the Dundas Street Centre in Thornbury — an offshoot of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Footscray — has begun operation. The centres are not funded government

  • Herb Feith, 1930-2001

    Herb Feith, renowned Indonesianist and community activist, and my uncle, died tragically in a train accident on November 15. Herb will be missed by people all over the world who he touched with his compassion, intellect and

  • Why they're fleeing

    BY RACHEL EVANS & SARAH STEPHEN In a letter to the Australian people on Auguts 30, the Afghan asylum seekers on the MS Tampa said of their plight, "You know well about the long-time war and its tragic human consequences ... the genocide and

  • Women refugees face great hurdles

    MELBOURNE — Women refugees in Australia face many hurdles, says Iudita Trifa, a community and industry organiser at Northcote Women's Working Health Centre. The introduction of temporary protection visas in 1999 has reduced

  • Pro-choice activists oppose murder

    MELBOURNE — Following the July 16 fatal shooting of Steven Rogers, a security guard at the Fertility Control Clinic, pro-choice activists around the country mobilised to defend the right of women to safe, accessible abortion.

  • D-Day for drug companies

    BY JACQUIE MOON & RACHEL EVANS MELBOURNE — Ten years after the original "D-Day" for action on the HIV/AIDS crisis, activists in the group QUEER have called a D-Day of their own for June 6. The group, whose acronym stands for Queers United to

  • Women and globalisation

    If the status of women marks the success of a society, then global capitalism is clearly failing the grade. Women have always been capitalism's second sex, and globalisation has made conditions for women worse. Globalisation is

  • S26 actions around Australia

    MELBOURNE — More than 600 people braved a wet, cold day to attend a solidarity action here with the Prague demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The action was called by the S11 Alliance and was