This week (October 14/15) a National Day of Action in support of East Timor is taking place around Australia, sponsored nationally by UDT (Union of Democratic Timorese) Fretilin Youth (Revolutionary Front for Independent East Timor), Resistance and
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by Nick Everett
"The international community continues to miss the point in the case of East Timor. To the capitalist governors, Timor's petroleum smells better than Timorese blood and tears." — A Portuguese priest, Kraras, in East
Looking out: If not, why not?
By Brandon Astor Jones
Recently I listened to a radio broadcast out of Atlanta, Georgia. The talk show What's Going On? is hosted by Ryan Cameron. It is a good social and civic forum for
Mandela asked to help Nigerians
Earthlife Africa, at the request of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, is urging South African President Nelson Mandela to make representations to the Nigerian government for the release of Ken
By Pip Hunter
Pragmatism rather than principle was what prevented the ALP from expanding its three-mine uranium policy at its national conference, according to many environmentalists. The "pre-cooked" four-day conference, for which
A useful tool for East Timor activists
East Timor Activist Kit
Published by Resistance. $3.00
Available from Resistance bookshops
Reviewed by Arun Pradhan
This booklet is worth getting for the first section alone.
Open Learning — The City of the Bush — This program introduces the Bulletin magazine and some of the writers who contributed to it. The debate between two of the most famous Bulletin writers, "Banjo" Paterson and Henry Lawson — over the
Feminist Book Fair
I am Lidia Falc¢n, feminist writer from Spain, and have had 22 books published in various languages and I came to Melbourne to attend the Sixth International Feminist Book Fair. I realised with surprise and anger that at
Wholly positive
"You sense, as I very strongly do, that the underlying momentum is wholly positive." — Foreign minister Gareth Evans, commenting on an Amnesty International report which says that the Indonesian government is shooting alleged
By Roger Clarke
At the International Green Left Conference in Sydney at Easter, Peter Camejo identified the key problem for the socialist movement as being the isolation of socialists from the necessary agency of socialism — the working