Free market speech isn't free
By Kim Bullimore
Freedom of speech is one of the most treasured ideas in Western democracies, held up as an ideal towards which all nations and governments should strive. The United States has enshrined this right,
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By Norm Dixon
Workers turned out in huge numbers in Turkey's capital, Ankara, on July 24 to oppose government moves to "reform" the country's social security system. Turkey's right-wing coalition government, elected in May on a wave of anti-Kurdish
Here comes the revolution
"Like aristocrats joining a revolution in order to temper its excesses — useful fools, Lenin called them — these so-called 'conservatives' claim that it is necessary to support the Turnbull-Keating republic at the
Shared space #3
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The vilest deeds like prison weedsBloom well in prison air:It is only what is good in manThat wastes and withers there ..."Oscar Wilde, from The Ballad of Reading Gaol This is the third in a series of
Maggie wouldn't treat me like that
By Karen Fredericks
When the producers of Blue Heelers first approached the Victoria Police to borrow uniforms, badges, cars and other paraphernalia to use in the show, the force was not keen. Producer Hal
By Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — Ten thousand construction workers jammed the streets in a march from Sydney Town Hall to NSW Parliament House on July 28. Andrew Ferguson, state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU),
DARWIN — On August 10, the Cubillo and Gunner v Commonwealth trial reopens in the Federal Court. The cases are an attempt to show that the earlier government policy of removal of Aboriginal children from their families was racist and an attempt to
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — About 70 people filled Comrades Bar on July 28 to discuss opposing industrial relations minister Peter Reith's "second wave" anti-union legislation. At the monthly Politics in the Pub, organised by Green Left Weekly,
By Peter Montague
Several new studies have implicated chlorinated chemicals in human disease, including breast cancer and tooth decay. Chlorine chemistry is the premier example of humans adopting a new technology without thinking about the
By James Smith
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) on July 15 called on the federal government to "think again" on its proposed second wave workplace relations laws. The CPSU is concerned that a new round of award stripping and moves to
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