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BY KATELYN MOUNTFORD BRISBANE — Resistance's mailbox here held a nasty surprise recently: a letter from Edmund McMahon, Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate in the seat of Mt Gravatt in the February 17 state election. McMahon acknowledged that
Adelaide: M1 Adelaide. Next organising meeting Thurs Feb 15, 6pm. 5th flr, Union Bldg, Adelaide Uni (Nth Tce). Ph 8231 6982. Brisbane: May 1 Alliance meeting. Wed Feb 14, 6pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. Ph 3831 2644. Canberra: Canberra
In 1993 women contributed the monetary equivalent of more than US$11 trillion worth of unpaid household work to the global economy — equal to more than a third of the world's gross domestic product. Today, 140 million Indonesians are living below
Corporations “cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed [nor] excommunicate[d], for they have no souls.” — Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634. The late English jurist's words are appropriate here. I do not know of many corporations demonstrating
BY OREN YIFTACHEL On February 6, Israel elected its first settler prime minister. Premier-elect Ariel Sharon, who gave his negotiators 10 days to forge a “national unity” government with Labour, maintains an official residence in Old
SYDNEY — Alistair Hulett, former frontperson of the legendary punk-folk band Roaring Jack and long-time Newtown resident, now lives in Scotland. Hulett is back in Australia for a short solo tour. Hulett was well-known for his strong support for the
BY MARTIN ILTIS MELBOURNE — The local Brunswick community has reaffirmed its support for workers at the Chef whitegoods factory, holding a solidarity demonstration outside the factory on February 14. Despite being profitable, the factory faces
BY TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — The Democratic Socialist Party's newly established Melbourne West branch is to open a new Resistance Centre in the city's western suburbs. While there have been members in the west since the party was founded in
BY COLIN CLEARY The provincial industrial centre where I work as a relief teacher is not the prettiest or the most prosperous in the state. A good half of it consists of housing commission dwellings erected in a burst of Menzies-era optimism that
BY NORM DIXON The Scottish Socialist Party's member in the Scottish parliament, Tommy Sheridan, was among the more than 370 anti-nuclear weapons protesters arrested at the Faslane navy base near Glasgow on February 12. Scottish Labour MP George

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