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Aboriginal history 'didn't end in 1788'

By Chris Martin SYDNEY — Walking in silence through a light rain, more than 200 people, black and white, came together in Sydney on March 9 to retrace the steps of one of Australia's first protest marches by Aboriginal people. This early act of

Write on: Letters to the editor

Police harassment I am writing as one of the many Brisbane Resistance members concerned about police harassment. Along with many other high school students, I attended the anti-uranium mining protest on April 26th. It was a lovely rally with about

Uranium: a death sentence for miners

The Howard government's announcement that it intends to scrap Labor's three mines policy and allow the opening of new uranium mines in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia has renewed calls for an end to uranium mining by the

Peres thwarted by Lebanese resistance

By Jennifer Thompson According to Noam Chomsky's April 23 article, "Israel, Lebanon, and the 'Peace Process'", the day after Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres took office, the New York Times reported "approvingly" that Israeli war planes attacked

Child protection workers fight on

By Kim Linden MELBOURNE — After a spirited fight at the end of March, Victorian child protection workers returned to work in April hoping to have their case heard before the Employee Relations Commission (ERC). The workers are fighting the

Cuba solidarity fast nears three months

By Maria Sari NEW YORK — A "Fast for Life" called by the solidarity and aid group "Pastors for Peace" on February 21 after US Customs agents seized 400 medical computers and other aid bound for Cubs is now in its 11th week, Although one of the

Nationals divided over gun control

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Queensland government's support for gun control could split the National Party, police minister Russell Cooper said on May 13. The warning came as Coalition MPs, including Cooper and Liberal leader Joan Sheldon, faced

Public servants vote for bans

By Paul Oboohov CANBERRA — At a mass meeting at the National Convention Centre on May 13, more than 2000 federal public servants voted for bans. People were forced to sit in the aisles as reports on the attack on the federal public service were

Ireland's immeasurable loss

James Connolly and the Irish LeftBy W.K. AndersonIrish Academic Press in association with National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University$39.95Reviewed by Bernie Brian This book is not an account of the life of the Irish socialist, James

Making (cyber)space for women

Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and CyberspaceBy Dale SpenderSpinifex, 1995. $24.95Reviewed by Patricia Brien Dale Spender's most recent book deals with computer-based technology and its implications for women. Spender engages with a historical

Radio highlights

Cloud in Pants — Vladimir Mayakovsky, futurist poet, painter and Bolshevik, was the first People's Artist of the Soviet Union. He decided to become an artist for the revolution while serving a prison sentence in tsarist Russia for his political

Police attack Sri Lankan May Day march

By K. Govindan COLOMBO — May Day marchers here were attacked and tear-gassed by police who dispersed demonstrators, seriously injuring several of them. Just two days before all demonstrations — though not rallies — had been banned by the