Sam King

  • Indonesian transport workers unite

    Transport workers from six different sectoral unions met from January 23-25 in West Java to form the National Transport Workers Union (FBTN).

  • Protests to cancel debt, support development

    Hundreds of people took protest action in North Sumatra, East Kalimantan, Central Sulewesi, East and West Java and Jogjakarta on January 15-17 to demand cancellation of Indonesia’s foreign debt, nationalisation of the mining industries and for strengthening the economy through a nationwide industrialisation.

  • Venezuela: Awakening the giant of youth

    The revolutionary student movement in Venezuela is divided into countless tiny organisations, often with bases in just one faculty or one campus. One of these organisations, the Popular Revolutionary Movement of Fire (MPR Fogata), in a statement issued in June called for “the revolutionary student movement of Venezuela to strengthen the forces in favour of unity”. The statement argued: “Now we are presented with the possibility of deepening these forces and gradually making that [unity] a reality.”

  • Freedom of expression in Venezuela today 'has no precedent'

    The Venezuelan government’s decision not to renew the expired free-to-air broadcasting licence of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), while still allowing it to broadcast online or via cable, has created a sharp debate in Venezuela about democracy and freedom of speech.

  • Anti-war activist notebook

    University shuts down anti-war stallsBRISBANE — Queensland University of Technology (QUT) used police to shut down an "unauthorised" anti-war campaigning stall on its Kelvin Grove campus on February 19. Police threatened activists

  • Left re-wins Griffith University union

    BRISBANE — Victory for the left-wing Ignite ticket has caused a radical change in student union politics at Griffith University, as Socialist Alliance members Paul Jacobs, Stephen Martin and David Lafferty were elected as 2003

  • Students, staff protest academic's sacking

    BY SAM KING& ROBYN MARSHALL BRISBANE &#151 Three hundred trade unionists and students attended a loud and determined protest march for union rights and intellectual freedom on October 30 at the University of Queensland (UQ) campus at St Lucia.

  • Queensland students fight upfront fees

    BRISBANE &#151 Students from the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University surrounded the UQ chancellery building on August 12. The 200-strong protest, organised by Campaign Against Fees

  • CMG meatworkers reject deal

    BY TERRICA STRUDWICK & SAM KING ROCKHAMPTON — At a 2000-strong mass meeting on April 13, meatworkers locked out by Consolidated Meat Groups (CMG) voted unanimously to reject a new proposed enterprise bargaining agreement, after the Queensland

  • Students resist repression to rally against racism

    BY JACQUI THOMAS & SAM KING ADELAIDE — High school students have defied an attempt to prevent them attending a demonstration during school hours against One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. While one student, Resistance member Jess Griffin,

  • Inflammatory student politics

    BY JAL NICHOLL & SAM KING ADELAIDE — While students may have been embracing anti-corporate activism during university orientation weeks, the official festivities have often become appalling mixtures of apoliticism and corporatisation — they

  • Iraqi refugees confident of release

    ADELAIDE — The trial of 10 refugees charged with breaking out of the Woomera detention centre in June began here on October 24, but the defendants are confident they can beat the charges and were bolstered by a demonstration by 25