By Eva Cheng
Under orders from the International Monetary Fund, the Chuan Leekpai government is busy preparing the sale of some of Thailand's most important public assets: Thai Airways International, the Electricity Generating Authority of
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By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — On April 3, representatives from ACT universities and the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union joined Sutarji, a student leader from Indonesia recently arrived in Australia, to condemn the arrest and disappearance
You can take comfort in my presence
GOOD NEWS! This column will soon be entering its fifth year. The smiling dial that marks it has not changed one smidgin in all that time. I'm ageless, that's what I am. I'm still the same bloke I was way back
By Jim McIlroy
One of the central tenets of the Communist Manifesto states: "Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class". This fundamental proposition of Marx and
By Francesca Davis
Governments have been talking about reduced car use and better public transport for years. The NSW government is now working on its 13th transport plan for Sydney — none of which have been implemented. Meanwhile, construction
By James Balowski
On March 28, Andi Arief, the chairperson of Student Solidarity for Indonesian Democracy (SMID), was abducted at gunpoint from his brother's home in Lampung, South Sumatra. He has not been seen or heard from since. Arief was taken
By Lisa Macdonald
In a cynical attempt to woo the migrant vote, Labor leader Kim Beazley told the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia annual conference in Sydney on March 28 that the ALP unequivocally supported multiculturalism
By Sean Healy
On April 1, more than 20,000 students and staff took part in protests against the Howard government's education cutbacks and the privatisation of tertiary and technical education. The large turnout, and the militancy of the
By Allan Nairn
JAKARTA — Activists and observers here speculate that the country — reeling from hunger and mass lay-offs promoted by the IMF — is moving toward social upheaval and perhaps a change of regime. At the dumps in Bantar Gebang, the
Wik and the politics of compromise
By Jennifer Thompson
Secretive negotiations between the Coalition government, Labor opposition and independent Senator Brian Harradine have been taking place over the passage of the government's Wik bill.
Dita Sari
Truly free theserighteous captives.Pathfinders of freedom,peaceful warriors,held hostageby a tyrant State.
Democracy of thedungeonSocialism of thecells.
Friends of libertyfighting onbehind the wire,the bars, the chains.Leading
Comment by Ray Fulcher and Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — Around 5000 students and staff took to the streets here on April 1. It was the largest student mobilisation in Melbourne for some time and shows the potential for organised opposition to the
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