My Life is an extraordinary book that should be read and reread by every socialist. Of course, we mean My Life by the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. My Life by Bill Clinton, on the other hand, is a pompous piece of junk — lies and distortions
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Lynda Hansen, Brisbane
The Selling Sex in Queensland report, commissioned by the Prostitution Licensing Authority 18 months ago and independently prepared by researchers from the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology,
Kathy Newnam & Owain Lewis-Jones, Darwin
One Mile Dam, an Aboriginal camp on prime land close to Darwin's CBD, is under pressure to relocate to the fringes of the city. Developers plan to build up-market apartments in the surrounding area and want
Dale Mills
The ACT became the first Australian state or territory to benefit from a rights bill on July 1, when the Human Rights Act came into effect. Every country in the developed world, except Australia, has some sort of bill of rights.
The
Lalitha Chelliah
We can spend many hours discussing the atrocities that have taken place and are taking place in Iraq. The USA, after a Clayton's hand-over, will continue to exert its power in Iraq — no-one doubts that, especially the USA.
The
Tom's first big political action was in 1981, when he was arrested for obstructing bulldozers on Mount Nardi in what is now Nightcap National Park. A campaigner on environment and social justice issues since the Franklin River campaign, Tom has
Eva Cheng
Members and sympathisers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, who have been leading grassroots worker and peasant struggles have been under increasing attack in the states of Bihar and Assam.
In the northern
REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY
Radical Brisbane: An unruly historyEdited by Raymond Evans & Carole FerrierVulgar Press, Melbourne 2004329 pages, pb, $50Available from <http://www.vulgar.com.au>
Radical Brisbane: An unruly history is a timely
Some 530,000 people, braving a heat wave in humid Hong Kong, demonstrated on the seventh anniversary of the former British colony's July 1, 1997, handover to China. They were angered by Beijing's recent rejection of the demand for complete direct
Jim Green
The Coalition government's campaign to build a national nuclear waste dump in South Australia is going from bad to worse.
The government has been subjected to a barrage of friendly fire in recent months, in the form of strong criticism
Sarah Stephen
On June 24, a mosque in Melbourne suffered an arson attack. The following day, a Muslim prayer hall in the north-western Sydney suburb of Annangrove was vandalised. Pig's heads were put on spikes outside the hall and offal was smeared
Zoe has been fighting for social and global justice since 1998 when she helped blockade the Jabiluka Uranium Mine in Kakadu national park. "The world is only going to get better if we organise for it to do so", she said.
One of her inspirations are
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