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Bolts drawn on Fortress Europe

Sarah Stephen On May 1, the European Union will expand from 15 countries to 25, incorporating Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. While there will be unprecedented freedom of

Our Common Cause: 'Work till you die'

The Coalition government is at it again. Whenever it seeks to abrogate its social responsibility and save money it resorts to stigmatisation and scare tactics. The latest is attacking "the cult of early retirement". The government wants more

A celebration of activism

Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy WithinBy Jill and Jeff SparrowVulgar Press, Melbourne256 pages, $50 Monumental propaganda — this is what I have in mind ... In many prominent places, on suitable walls or on some special scaffolding there should be

Write on: Letters to the editor

Iraq I Australian soldiers should be withdrawn immediately from Iraq. They are not doing their country proud by remaining there. The occupation of Iraq is immoral and only perpetuates the wrong-doing of the initial invasion. Our soldiers should be

The adventure of learning

To Be and to Have (Etre et Avoir)Directed by Nicolas PhillibertShowing at Palace cinemas, Sydney and Cinema Nova, Melbourne REVIEW BY JOHN GAUCI All over France, you can still find "single-class schools" — schools that bring together all the

Saving Aldinga's scrub

Annette Auri, Willunga, South Australia The Onkaparinga council recently approved a high-density suburban development right next to a treasured natural resource: The Aldinga Conservation Park. The council own website admits: "Many native plant

IRAQ: Death squad organiser to replace Bremer

Doug Lorimer On April 20, as the death toll of US troops in Iraq passed the 700 mark, US President George Bush nominated John Negroponte, currently Washington's ambassador to the UN, to replace Paul Bremer as US ambassador to Iraq. If his

VENEZUELA: Conference commemorates anti-coup insurrection

Robyn Marshall, Caracas Tens of thousands of Venezuelans joined with 200 foreign guests — authors, political activists, teachers and students from across the world — to commemorate the first anniversary of the April 13 mass insurrection that

Still fighting for East Timor's sovereignty

Sarah Stephen, Sydney "Each of us has to choose between being either a champion of human dignity or a collaborator with an increasingly inhuman system", Sister Susan Connelly from the Mary MacKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies told a crowd

Harvest of death

REVIEW BY EVA CHENG Harvest of Death: Farmers' Suicides and Rural Starvation in the Shadow of GlobalisationBy V. Shankar and R. VidyasagarPublished by Indian Institute of Marxist Studies 200450 pages Harvest of Death, a new pamphlet from the

Channel 31 ceases broadcasting

Simon Tayler, Sydney Transmission by Sydney's community TV station, Channel 31, ceased at midnight on April 23, after the current licence holders, TV Sydney (TVS), refused an offer by the previous licence holders, Community TV Sydney (CTS). TVS

ISRAEL: Vanunu released

Jack Cohen-Joppa & Alison Dellit As he walked out the prison door on April 21, the thumping beat of a police helicopter overhead, the shouts from the press and the cheers and jeers of demonstrators just outside the massive gate may have prevented