BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
What do revolutions look like? Many people have a stereotyped picture of what a revolution is: a revolution is an event in which people with guns take over a city or a country. This image confuses a revolution with an
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BY SIMON BUTLER
BALLARAT — The 2000 National Union of Students national conference, held here from December 11-15, closed in tumult and chaos, with members of the National Broad Left, the Labor left and the Labor right factions hurling abuse, and
The following remarks were delivered at the dedication of Jose Villa's statue of John Lennon in Lennon Park, Havana, Cuba on December 8. It was the 20th anniversary of Lennon's assassination.
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
Leigh Hughes joined the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) in November 2000 following the tumultuous events at the S11 protests in Melbourne. He is 17 years old, and is a Year 12 student at Tuggeranong College, a college in an
BY KIM BULLIMORE
MELBOURNE — After much successful campaigning in New South Wales, the Indigenous Students Network has relaunched itself as a national network for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Corrie Hodson, a founding member
Bougainville Voices was recorded in central Bougainville in 1998 by musicologist Justin Tonti-Filippini at the personal invitation of Bougainville's leaders. He began work as soon as a truce was brokered on the war-torn island that has been fighting
BY MAX LANE
The process of overthrowing the Suharto dictatorship did not go sufficiently deep enough to deliver a deathblow to the political ambitions of the old regime, of Suharto's former ruling party, Golkar, and the armed forces, the TNI.
The French seaside resort town of Nice, on the country's Mediterranean coast, added its name to the list of "insurgent cities" — a list which already includes Seattle, Washington, Prague and Melbourne — when, on December 6-7, 70,000 people from
BY NORM DIXON
George Walker ("Dubya") Bush will be inaugurated as the United States of America's 43rd president on January 20. Even before he sets foot in the White House, vast numbers of Americans are already convinced that Bush has no legitimate
BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN
NEWCASTLE — Mining company Colrock has followed in the nefarious tradition of National Textiles and Steel Tank and Pipe (STP) by sacking workers without paying them their entitlements.
Colrock, whose parent company is the
The call for swift execution of 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill, who was
suspected of shooting a school teacher to death earlier this year, sparked
controversy.
Many people all over the world are joining the struggle against death
as a
BY MALIK MIAH
George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States by a five-to-four vote of the US Supreme Court. But the die was cast long before the November 7 election.
One of the dirty aspects of the 2000 presidential elections was
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