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Should students support disaffiliation from NUS?

BY SHUA GARFIELD HOBART — Students at the Hobart campus of the University of Tasmania (UTas) will vote in a referendum on whether to remain affiliated to the National Union of Students (NUS) on February 25-March 1. The Hobart campus is one of

ACEH: Student leader arrested

BY MAX LANE The chairperson of SMUR (Students in Solidarity with the People), Mahmudal, was arrested in Banda Aceh on February 19 during a demonstration organised by ORPAD (Acehnese Women's Democratic Organisation). SMUR is an

An expose of Australia's racism

Rabbit Proof FenceDirected by Phillip NoyceIntroducing Evelyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury and Laura MonaghanWith Ningali Lawford, David Gulpilil, Deborah Mailman and Kenneth BranaghScreening at Dendy Newtown and cinemas across Australia REVIEW BY KIM

Write on: Letters to the editor

ALP The federal Australian Labor Party is not doing a very good job of resurrecting itself to be a political alternative. First, it was unable to produce a majority to support a principled stand on refugees. Now it is allowing itself to be

Labor for Refugees forms in western sydney

BY MARGARET GLEESON SYDNEY — Thirty ALP members and trade unionists attended Labor for Refugees general meeting on February 17. Federal MP for Sydney Tanya Plibersek told the meeting that the February 12 protest rally outside Parliament House

Cuban Communist Youth: 'Che Lives'

BARBARA CANTERO, a representative of the Cuban Communist Youth (UJC), recently visited Australia to explain the activities of he organisation, learn more about the political situation in the Asian region and request increased solidarity for the Cuban

and ain't I a woman: Hollingworth blames the victim

and ain't I a woman: Hollingworth blames the victim The statements made by Governor General Peter Hollingworth on the ABC's February 18 Australian Story program, perpetuate sexist attitudes about female sexuality. Describing sexual abuse of

ISRAEL: Divisions grow over war

BY ROHAN PEARCE Israeli society is becoming increasingly polarised. On one side there are those who have lost, or are losing, faith in a military strategy to crush the current intifada, and who are beginning to understand that without justice for

SCOTLAND: Protesters blockade Trident base

BY SARAH PEART GLASGOW — At 5am on February 11 a convoy of mini buses, cars and vans carrying 500 anti-nuclear activists from across Europe made their way to the home of Britain's Trident nuclear missile submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde

Hundreds support refugees

BY ANTHONY BENBOW FREMANTLE — "I only wish the politicians could show refugees the same kindness, compassion and humility that my ancestors showed your ancestors hundreds of years ago" — with these passionate words, Nyoongar activist Kim

UNITED STATES: Steel companies call for increased tariffs, subsidies

BY EVA CHENG Capitalism's nagging overcapacity problem refuses to go away. Having long plagued many key industries, the problem found new and sharp expressions in the global steel industry in the wake of the 1997-98 economic crises in Asia, Russia

Pilger meeting sold out

SYDNEY — On March 1, Sydney Town Hall will be filled by 2050 people, coming to hear journalist John Pilger speak on: "Breaking the silence: war, propaganda and the new empire." Tickets for the event, sponsored by Green Left Weekly, were sold out on