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Speaking tour will highlight need for solidarity

Speaking tour will highlight need for solidarity By Simon Butler Despite democratic changes in Indonesia and the end of the occupation of East Timor, "... there's still lots of reasons why solidarity from people in Australia is desperately

Girt by sea

Girt by sea By Allen Myers A few weeks ago, I was reading some of Frederick Engels' correspondence and came across an interesting letter. Someone was compiling a book of labour movement songs and wrote to Engels asking his advice on songs to

Write on: letters to the editor

Zero tolerance policing I have just read Norm Dixon's article "Killer cops go free" (GLW #396). I agree with Dixon that Zero Tolerance policing is a disaster, not just in New York also in Sydney. Its application to a small Arabic speaking community

Life of Riley: April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day Since the people seemed to grow cold in their devotion at this time, with human apathy greatly increasing, the venerable leader of the nation, being then in his post of pastoral care, desiring to root out the said

Democrats give succour to Howard

By Sue Boland When the Coalition government announced that it was introducing the "Timor tax" in November, Green Left Weekly warned that it could be used as a precedent for introducing other "special purpose" levies. It was quite likely, we argued,

Workers' alternative needed, say socialist candidates

Workers' alternative needed, say socialist candidates By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — "The Democratic Socialists support a city council which truly represents the working people of Brisbane", socialist candidates Graham Matthews and Coral Wynter

Acts of Resistance

Resistance pushes on MELBOURNE — Resistance members here spent their Labour Day holiday on March 30 at the Push On concert at Melbourne's Luna Park. Thousands of young people, mainly high school students, gathered to hear bands play. Resistance

Indonesian art and politics

Indonesian art and politics By Zanny Begg From November 26 to January 29, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne hosted an exhibition of Indonesian art called AWAS! — the Indonesian word for "beware". The exhibition will be in

Iranian workers condemn repressive labour laws

By Rupen Savoulian New, draconian labour laws recently enacted by the Iranian regime will exempt small businesses from the Islamic Labour Law, affecting 2.8 million workers and resulting in 600,000 redundancies, according to a statement by the

New Zimbabwean party is 'a half-way house'

New party is 'a half-way house' Patrick Bond spoke with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Johannesburg. Question: How can the MDC's industrial worker and urban community activists persuade the rural folk to abandon Mugabe's "nationalism". We're

And ain't i a woman: Equal opportunity in cyberspace?

Equal opportunity in cyberspace?  In 1995, academic Dale Spender wrote a book called Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace. In it she urged women to join the cyberspace race and avoid being left behind in the multimedia

Nestle targeted for GE food

Nestle targeted for GE food By Daniel Jardine SYDNEY — Protesters outside the offices of food giant Nestle have demanded that the company declare that its products sold in Australia have not been genetically engineered. The March 15 protest,