JAKARTA — One thousand peasants from various regions of Indonesia rallied and marched here on September 24 to demand government action on human rights and economic justice.
Organised by the National Peasants Union (STN), the rally brought
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Greens and front parties
Geoff Ash's letter (GLW 422), responding to my article about David Oldfield's attempts to register front parties, focuses on one small inaccuracy, but fails to address the main issues raised.
Ash correctly points out that
BY TIM STEWART & SUE BOLAND
BRISBANE — While the Transport Workers Union was restricted from officially endorsing the blockades of oil refineries here and in Melbourne for fear of legal action, the union's national president and Queensland state
BY DJ MIBRANE
Bluelight.nu (<http://www.bluelight.nu>) is the world's largest discussion board for issues surrounding the use of MDMA (the recreational drug ecstasy), with over 11,000 members, including around 1000 in Australia. In the
Zero interaction
Television, drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation,
sang the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy a few years ago. From its early
days in the first decades of this century, television has been a
The rat race
And it's a simply glorious day here at Homebush. The rain that dampened
times for last night's 3000 metres seems to be holding off. With hardly
a breeze in the stadium we're looking for some fine competition here today.
BY SUSAN PRICE
Unionists Against Corporate Tyranny has launched a new web site which, according to site editor Melanie Sjoberg, will help broaden the campaign against corporate-led globalisation.
"The site has only been up for a week", said
The release of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) documents on East Timor for the period 1974-76 has provoked former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and former Australian ambassador to Indonesia Richard Woolcott to try to defend their
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — As tens of thousands of people linked arms, sang songs, danced jigs and blockaded the World Economic Forum from September 11 to 13, Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks was also extremely busy. In between loudly
BY JANE ARMANASCO
PERTH — Left-wing activists have performed well in elections to the Curtin University student guild here, but have been unable to oust conservative and apolitical incumbents, who retained 12 out of 16 positions on guild
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