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Feminism: has it gone far enough?

During a panel discussion entitled "Women, Race and Class" held at the Marxist Educational Conference in Sydney over Easter, KAREN FLETCHER, feminist activist and former GLW journalist, took up the issue of where feminism is at in the 1990s, and what

Action updates

Community radio rally ADELAIDE — On June 21, local bands, students, political activists, migrant groups and many others made up a 400-strong crowd on the steps of Parliament House to show their support for community radio. Annual funding of

The campaign against the Vietnam War

[This is the slightly abridged text of a talk given at a public forum in Sydney on June 6. The author, JOHN PERCY, is national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party.] The campaign against the Vietnam War here developed in similar ways to

... and ain't i a woman?: A unique conference

A unique conference In the first week of July, hundreds of young women will be gathering again at the Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA) conference in Melbourne. The conference has been held annually since 1987, when an enterprising

Nimbin police launch 'drug war'

Nimbin police launch 'drug war' NIMBIN — The NSW Police Service has decided to throw money and civil rights to the wind in an effort to win the unwinnable "war against drugs". While some police want drug abuse to be treated as a health

This issue, next issue

This issue, next issue You may have noticed that this week's Green Left Weekly pages are a little smaller — about one centimetre shorter than usual. This is due to a newsprint shortage which has left our printer with insufficient quantities of

The people's court jester

The Tricks of the Trade By Dario Fo Methuen. 224 pp., $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Acting is taken so much for granted. So much of the culture we enjoy now depends on the ability of individuals to delude us into thinking they are someone

'The choice is supporting Labor or defending workers'

In by-elections in June for the Community and Public Sector Union, one of the country's largest unions, GREG ADAMSON was elected ACT assistant secretary on the ticket of CPSU Challenge. STEVE ROGERS spoke to him for Green Left Weekly. What does

Broadening the no nukes campaign

By Lisa Macdonald The opposition among Australians to the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific is not yet translating into hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets as they did during the heyday of

World Court ruling: it's up to us now

On June 30 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that it had no jurisdiction to decide on Portugal's challenge to the Indonesia-Australia Timor Gap Treaty. This, the court said, was because it could not decide on the nature of

ALP left crumbles on French tests

By Lisa Macdonald Three weeks after the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing at Moruroa atoll, pressure is mounting on the federal government to act in accordance with the widespread public opposition to the tests. Not for

Is identity enough?

Kath Gelber "Identity" in the gay and lesbian community means many different things. It includes the personal identification of same sex desire, a process of realisation and recognition of a desire which challenges dominant sexual norms.