By Max Lane
The massive and militant mobilisations during the official election campaign in Indonesia were a major setback to the Suharto government's image of stability. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets, major shopping
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By Trish Corcoran
SYDNEY — On May 12, members of the United Residents Action Group blockaded bulldozers that were about to begin work on a new development in the Berowra Valley. Landcom — the NSW government developer — had put in an
Unfettered freedomUnfettered freedom
By Brandon Astor Jones and Sarah Nurses
"The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his
Double standard
You are standing in the midst of a great crowd — two vast groups of people are in vehement opposition. Banners and flags are waved frantically; signs held aloft. What starts as half-hearted shouts and cries grows quickly into
Did Dita do it?
By Max Lane
@box text intro = On June 12, the private Indonesian TV station SCTV broadcast a report stating that riots had broken out in Medaeng prison, Surabaya.
Dita Sari, president of the Indonesian Centre for Labour
Promiscuities: A Secret History of Female DesireBy Naomi WolfRandom House, 1997. 272 pp., $22.95 Review by Kath Gelber
With its sexualised cover (a picture of a naked, female, headless, almost hairless, skinny torso) and its sexualised title,
WA unionists prepare for a fight
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Richard Court's Coalition government and its mates in the Building and Construction Industry Taskforce (whose main "task" consists of attacking construction unions) are trying to
By Peter Montague
In the early 1990s, British researchers at Brunel University in Uxbridge noticed that male fish living downstream from a sewage treatment plant near London had testes laden with eggs. The male fish had become hermaphrodites
By Marina Carman and Ray Fulcher
Occupations of university buildings have been an important and useful part of the campaign against education cuts nationally this year. However, a debate emerging at the moment concerns how student occupations
The final "Justice Tour: Fighting Hanson's Racism" meeting, in Sydney on June 13, was the culmination of a very successful national tour to encourage people to join the struggle against the racism of MP Pauline Hanson and to fight the racist polices
By Cliff Baxter
Health care workers, academics and doctors have called for an inquiry into the "flagship" of the projected armada of privatised health care in Australia. They say the "good ship" Port Macquarie Base Hospital leaks like a sieve
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazski Plennik)A film by Sergei BodrovA Dendy Films release from June 26 Review by John Tognolini
Memories of the Chechen-Russian war are still fresh. The towns being bombed into the stone age by Boris Yeltsin's air
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