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Resistance contests ANU elections

BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — The socialist youth group Resistance will be contesting the Australian National University Student Association (SA) elections during the first week of September. Resistance is running for the positions of president,

Refugee solidarity bus tour planned

BY ALEX MILNE & JO BROWN MELBOURNE — More then 60 participants are confirmed for the "Free the refugees" solidarity bus trip organised by the Melbourne Refugee Action Collective (RAC). The trip will leave Melbourne on September 21 to arrive at

BHP's outsourcing still on hold

BY STUART MARTIN WOLLONGONG — At an August 20 hearing of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the Australian Workers Union succeeded in again delaying BHP's attempt to sign outsourcing contracts

CHINA: WTO entry will trigger mass dislocation

BY EVA CHENG The United States has scored another victory in its long campaign to ensure China pays dearly to enter the World Trade Organisation, forcing the country to agree to limits on agricultural subsidies tougher than those on other Third

US backs apartheid Israel

@box text intr = The United States government's threat to boycott the UN-organised World Conference Against Racism, being held in South Africa from August 31, raises the question why the self-proclaimed "land of the free" would want to avoid a

EAST TIMOR: Elections mark new step toward independence

BY JON LAND The August 30 election for East Timor's Constituent Assembly signifies an important step towards the conclusion of the United Nations transitional administration. As the UN starts to gradually wind back operations and hand over more

Activist Left to run in Flinders student elections

BY REBECCA MECKELBURG ADELAIDE — The September student elections at Flinders University will be contested by an Activist Left ticket. The ticket brings together activists from the M1 Action Group, the Environment Action Group, the Resistance

SOUTH AFRICA: 'Zionism is racism'

BY NORM DIXON Thousands of South Africans protested in support of the Palestinian people in Durban on August 19. The rally packed the City Hall. Organised by the Palestine Support Committee and the Durban Social Forum, it called on the African

UNITED STATES: IMF 'not bound' by human rights conventions

BY SEAN HEALY A top official of one of the world's most powerful financial institutions, the International Monetary Fund, has admitted what many people long suspected: that the IMF feels it has no responsibility to comply with human rights treaties

Aboriginal community to lead People's March on CHOGM

BY KAREN FREDERICKS BRISBANE — The traditional owners of Brisbane and surrounding areas will throw their backing behind planned protest plans against the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October, deciding at a mass meeting at Musgrave

and ain't i a woman?: Are men really the new silent victims?

Men are the new, silent victims of the sex war, "continually demeaned and insulted" by women without a whimper of protest. A "lazy and insidious" culture has taken hold within feminism that revels in flailing men. "Men seem to be so cowed that they

'A victory for all indigenous people'

BY KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — In a dramatic legal turn-around which has enraged the developers of Hindmarsh Island but sparked celebration among Aboriginal people in South Australia, Justice John von Doussa has backed the long-held claims of