Simon Tayler

  • Actively Radical TV back on Channel 31 in Sydney

    After almost two years of waiting, Actively Radical TV will be (re)occupying the airwaves of Channel 31. Tune in to Channel 31 on Sundays at 10:30pm and watch ARTV's new program. The new format includes documentaries, The Left News,

  • Power and genocide in Rwanda

    Stories from Rwanda is an historical account of how, in the space of around two months in 1994, nearly 1 million Rwandan people were killed by their compatriots.

  • Residents fight Collex waste dump

    SYDNEY — Local residents in the heavily populated Auburn-Clyde-Granville area, in Sydney's western suburbs, are fighting to stop the Collex corporation from opening a waste "transfer station" in Clyde. The dump has the backing of

  • Carr sets the pace in attacking our freedoms

    In late March, Books Not Bombs national coordinator Kylie Moon met with NSW police officers to organise a march permit for an anti-war protest in Sydney, due to be held on April 2. Not only did the police refuse the permit to march,

  • Will ARTV be censored?

    SYDNEY &#151 Every Sunday night, Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) program includes The Palestine Report, a segment on the conflict in Palestine. The report presents viewers with a point of view that the mainstream media

  • Afghan refugees to be interviewed on Channel 31

    SYDNEY — The capitalist media has consistently demonstrated its bias on the issue of asylum seekers. While the federal government and right-wing commentators are given regular coverage, it's rare for the stories of asylum

  • M1 protesters defiant in face of police violence

    BY TAMARA PEARSON & SIMON TAYLER SYDNEY — In a passionate show of defiance against police and media condemnation of militant protests, pro-refugee, anti-corporate and pro-Palestine activists converged on the Sydney offices of Australasian

  • ALP members campaign for refugees

    SYDNEY — Since the federal election, the campaign against the government's policy on refugees has grown dramatically. Dozens of new refugees' rights groups have formed. Labor for Refugees groups have formed in a number of states.

  • Visit to a detention centre

    As we drive into Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, the first thing I feel is the place's isolation from the world around it. To the south, only just visible, is the local industrial area — book printers and truck yards.

  • RFA fails to protect wilderness — again

    CANBERRA — In March, the NSW Labor government plans to sign the regional forest agreement (RFA) it put forward last year for the Eden management area. Eden has very little old-growth forest remaining, and the RFA

  • Gay and lesbian pride springs out

    Gay and lesbian pride springs outCANBERRA — The ACT's first Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival — Spring Out — included a rally and march on November 13, attended by 300 people. The rally was addressed by,