May 4
1919: Despite losing one of their ranks to police gunfire, wharfies expel scabs in Fremantle on Bloody Sunday.
May 5
1818: Karl Marx is born.
1981: IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in jail.
1993: 70,000 people march in Melbourne
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Activists from the Australian or New Zealand anti-apartheid movements are invited to contact Peter Limb (<limb@msu.edu>) about a new history of the international anti-apartheid movement to be published in South Africa. He will be visiting
Trisha Reimers
Concern is mounting over changes to state education legislation that have been labeled "unfair and unworkable", and teachers at one high school in Victoria have vowed to strike over the forced resignation of a colleague.
The
Rohan Pearce
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has called for the US government to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the role US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA head George Tenet played in the torture of detainees
Jon Lamb
Three days of negotiations over the disputed maritime boundary between East Timor and Australia concluded in Dili on April 29.
Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer announced that in exchange for East Timor's agreement to defer
Pip Hinman, Sydney
Paddy Keneally, a former wharfie and Australian commander in East Timor, condemned the Coalition government for stealing Timor's oil at a rally in Martin Place on April 26. The same day, talks resumed in Dili between Timorese and
On April 21, the United Nations Human Rights Commission rejected a Cuba-proposed resolution calling for an "impartial and independent fact-finding mission" into human rights abuses at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. The 53-state body voted the
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
Supporters of civil liberties, unionists, Aborigines, students and many ordinary citizens will join a rally in the city square here on May 3 to remember the dictatorial regime of former Queensland National Party Premier Joh
For Australia, as for many nations, World War I remains the most costly conflict ever in terms of deaths and casualties. From a population of fewer than five million, 300,000 men enlisted, of which more than 60,000 were killed and 156,000 were
Dave Riley
With the increasingly strident nationalism that greets ANZAC Day each year, it is easy to forget what the ANZAC tradition celebates. In almost nine months of entrenched fighting on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula, Australian and New Zealand
Twenty people attended a vigil and BBQ outside Melbourne's Maribyrnong detention centre on April 23. The vigil, organised by the Australian Democrats, was addressed by Democrats Senator Lyn Allison, Margarita Windisch from the Socialist Alliance
DARWIN — A protest against a new uranium mine in Kakadu National Park was held outside the Northern Territory parliament on April 26, to mark the expiry of the five-year moratorium on mining company negotiations with the traditional owners of the
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