NSW police commissioner put on the spot
By Danny Fairfax
SYDNEY — More than 100 people attended a public meeting with NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan at Ashfield Town Hall on January 27. The meeting was organised by the Ethnic Communities
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Solidarity rally planned for locked-out workers
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) is planning a stop-work rally of its Victorian members to express solidarity with workers at the Australian Dyeing Company
By Zanny Begg
The Alternative Life Style Organisation's choice of theme for the January 23 gay and lesbian dance party in Melbourne — "Red Raw" — has been controversial. Red Raw was billed as a "revolutionary dance party", and the publicity
By Cassandra Pomroy and Mel Bull
SYDNEY — The Sydney International Women's Day collective is busy organising this year's march and rally, to be held on March 6 from 10.30am at Sydney's Town Hall. The theme for the day is "Generations of feminist
By Allen Myers
A radio station in Sydney recently reported the creation of a pro-republican group called "Conservative Republicans for an Australian President". It was, presumably, an acronym joke, although in the current republic "debate", you can
Women of East Timor
"In 20 years, an untold number of women went through the horror in the Indonesian prisons all over East Timor. Many of us died of starvation and exhaustion in the mountains; others died, cremated by the napalm bombs; others were
Wollongong
Sat, March 13
Meet 11am at Lowden Square, march to Crown St Mall
Phone Angela 4226 2010
Brisbane
Sat, March 6
Meet 11am at King George Square, march at 12 noon
Phone Ruth 3254 0565
Adelaide
Sat March 6
Meet 11.30am at
By Michael Karadjis
New atrocities against Albanian villagers by the Serbian occupation forces in Kosovo have further highlighted the western powers' "even-handed" policy. Even more than last year, virtually every commentary in the media has
Land and Freedom
Socialist director Ken Loach's marvellous film about the Spanish Civil War is at last coming to television. Land and Freedom tells the story of David, young and unemployed, who leaves Liverpool to join an international brigade of
Eliseo Balcazar
Eliseo Balcazar, a Guatemalan trade union activist and revolutionary, died in Melbourne on January 16 at the age of 56. His entire adult life was spent in the shadow of the Guatemalan military dictatorship.
After an apprenticeship
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