SYDNEY — Solidarity was still needed to help Indonesian workers organise for democracy and justice, Indonesian activist Nieke told a forum here on May 2. Nieke is a leader of the Indonesian People's Democratic Party and a researcher into the
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Seeing with the HeartBy Judy KingAt the Galleries Primitif, Woollahra, SydneyOpens May 11
SYDNEY — A stint as a volunteer nurse in Africa was the inspiration for Judy King's exhibition Seeing with the Heart, which opens on May 11. The mixed media
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — It was a dark and foggy morning, making the CBD's skyscrapers seem even more alien, but the air was filled with excitement and anticipation. By 6am, a solid number of protesters had gathered outside the
BY ADAM MACLEAN
Public calls for the sacking of ABC managing director Jonathan Shier, chairperson Donald McDonald and the whole ABC board are growing. If the national broadcaster is to be saved from the oblivion the Coalition clearly wishes to
REVIEW BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
Live in New YorkBruce Springsteen and the E-Street BandSony Music
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band have released a new double live album that has achieved the unusual feat of winning extraordinary critical
BY NORM DIXON
May 1, the international day of solidarity with the struggles of the working class and the oppressed, was marked by millions of people around the world. In some countries, young militants inspired by the wave of mass
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — May 1 will be remembered for two connected reasons: it was the first sitting of parliament under Geoff Gallop's new Labor state government, and it was the day of one of the most violent police operations against
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — Four hundred people participated in the five-hour blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange, located in the Santos Building, in a powerful statement of how strongly they felt about the need to fight the ravages of
BY JOHN PERCY
SYDNEY British Marxist intellectual Alex Callinicos will be a keynote
speaker at the second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference,
scheduled for Easter 2002 in Sydney. Callinicos will represent the Socialist
BY VANYA TANAJA
DILI — News that Indonesia has formally agreed to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try those responsible for mass murder in East Timor around the period of the 1999 independence referendum was welcomed by Sergio de Mello, head of
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Months of hard work by organisers paid off on May 1 when hundreds of people participated in the largest anti-capitalist protest this city has ever seen.
Organisers admit that even on the morning of the blockade, they
BY FELICITY MARTIN
MELBOURNE — The joining together of 7000 unionists with 3000 stock exchange blockaders in a single unity march was a display of May Day solidarity not seen in this city for more than 60 years.
Long negotiations between the M1
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