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Visy workers keep fighting

Visy workers keep fighting By Federico Fuentes and Tom Flanagan SYDNEY — Seventy students, along with union and community activists, joined striking workers on the picket lines at Visy Board factories at Smithfield and Warwick Farm on July 15.

Dita Sari to tour Australia in August

By Max Lane Dita Sari has accepted an invitation by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor to tour Australia. The theme of the tour will be "Freedom in Indonesia, Free East Timor". Dita's party, the People's Democratic Party (PRD), and

Woman suffers CFS 'treatment' torture

By Rachel Evans In Queensland, a 14 year-old woman (she cannot be named because she is under the "protection" of the Department of Family Services) who was diagnosed last year with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was later placed in state custody

Dita Sari is free!

Dita Sari is free! By Sam King JAKARTA — After spending almost three years in jail for her "crime" of organising Indonesian workers to struggle for their rights, Dita Sari was released from the Tangerang women's prison, on the outskirts of

Loose cannons

Greed is good "I thought the suggestion was very good ... and of course I saw a commercial opportunity in it." Radio 2UE's shock-jock John Laws on his agreement to "chat" aimed at rescuing the image of Australia's banks in exchange for $1.2

Racist discrimination

By Sean Healy Resistance recently had direct experience of Australia's discriminatory immigration laws. We invited Farooq Sulheria, a leader of the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP), to our national conference in Melbourne earlier this month. Farooq

At least one too many Henry Lawsons

At least one too many Henry Lawsons Henry Lawson: A LifeBy Colin RoderickAngus & Robertson, 1999. 447 pp., $35 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Until his great rival, A. B. "Banjo" Paterson, deposed him when it went plastic, Henry Lawson adorned

Environmentalists debate

By Zanny Begg SYDNEY — During the Students and Sustainability Conference, held at Hawkesbury campus of the University of Western Sydney, July 12-16, there was debate over the decision by some men to form a "pro-feminist" men-only space at the

Looking out: This space

This space By Brandon Astor Jones This is the first in a series of four poems that I feel the need to share here. In essence, this space will belong to the author of each poem for the duration of the series. It is my hope that readers will be

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 10.30pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News —

A new musical treat

ExilioCanto Coro Order by phoning (07) 38485208 or e-mail <jfences@powerup.com.au>Cost is $15, including postage Review by Mark Cronin A CD recording of part of the latest performance in Brisbane by Canto Coro, a program of choral works

Surreal Stormont farce

By John Meehan DUBLIN — On July 15, the British government triggered a gadget (the D'Hondt mechanism) for electing a devolved Stormont government in Belfast — and the Irish "peace process" sank into farce that would not have not been out of