The tragedy of intolerance
Boys Don't CryDirected by Kimberley PierceWritten by Kimberley Pierce and Andy BienenFeaturing Hilary Swank and Chloe SevignyScreening at Palace/Nova Cinemas REVIEW BY ERICA HAINES
Boys Don't Cry is the tragic real-life
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UNITED STATES: Protests begin to clarify anti-globalisation debates
WASHINGTON — The militant and youthful protests here, to coincide with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) meeting on April 16-17, dramatised the profound
ZIMBABWE: MDC, farm workers Mugabe's real target
Despite the populist rhetoric of President Robert Mugabe — seemingly bolstered by the criticisms and exaggerations of the British Labour government, the Western mass media and, in Australia,
Zimbabwe crisis exposes refugee hypocrisy
Australian politicians are falling over themselves to offer refugee status to wealthy, white plantation owners displaced from their properties in Zimbabwe by supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
On
Solidarity with Russian workers
A protest vigil called by International Solidarity with Workers in Russia outside the venue of the Russia 2000 Expo in London on April 19. Two days earlier, ISWoR supporters demonstrated against President Vladimir
The talking cure
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
Both the ALP and the Democrats have focussed on the "flying nanny squads" of the federal government's nine-point "Stronger Families" plan. This is a mistake. The allotted sum, $65.4 million over four
Red flags fly in Canberra
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — With prominent contingents from the Australian Education Union, the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, and Members First, the rank-and-file group in the Community and Public Sector
RUSSIA: Down with the new code of slavery!
MOSCOW — The following call for solidarity, issued last month by the coordinating committee of the All-Russian Campaign in Defence of the Labour Code, is addressed to "all progressive organisations of
BY ERICA HAINES
ADELAIDE — The South Australian Liberal government hoped to have Adelaide's bus services driving smoothly on the privatisation highway from April 23. Instead, the venture only shuddered along. The government chose the Easter
Campaign targets Nike
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — Activists unfurled a banner with the message "Nike slavery: Just stop it" over busy Hoddle Street here on April 18, launching a planned eight-week campaign against the clothing and
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