Raul Bassi
On March 24, 1976, when the Argentine armed forces staged a coup, those of us who were politically active expected hard times. But what followed was a horrific sequence of events that could never have been imagined, the results of which
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Dale Mills
A coalition of community and legal organisations has slammed the Australian government's decision on February 15 to declare the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) a terrorist organisation in Australia. The listing of the PKK as a terrorist
Kerryn Williams
Millions of students and workers marched on March 28 against the First Employment Contract (CPE) law, which allows employers to sack workers aged under 26 years without reason during the first two years of their job. The law was
PERTH — One hundred and fifty people joined a 'You're sacked!' demonstration outside the Australian Industrial Relations Commission office on March 27 to protest against the enactment that day of the federal Work Choices legislation. The action
On March 22, World Water Day, Malcolm Turnbull said that water is Australia's most precious resource and its largest conservation challenge. "My intention is to substantially raise the level of debate and accountability on urban water issues",
Max Lane
Green Left Weekly will be organising the fourth Asia-Pacific International Solidarity Conference in Sydney over the 2007 Easter weekend (April 6-9). This will be five or six months before US President George Bush visits Australia for the
Steve Phillips
Twenty kilometres west of Muswellbrook, near the town of Wybong, there is something rare — a large, intact and quality stand of remnant Hunter Valley-floor bushland. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the site is rich in
Dickens: His Work and His WorldBy Michael Rosen and Robert IngpenWalker Books 200595 pages
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
According to Peter Ackroyd, Karl Marx once said to Frederick Engels that Charles Dickens had "issued to the world more political and
Jim Green
The federal Coalition government's push for uranium sales to China sets a new low in Australian uranium export policy.
The Australia-China negotiations provoked an angry editorial in the January 21 Taipei Times: "One can almost hear the
Sue Bolton
Just three days before the implementation of the Howard government's Work Choices legislation on March 27, federal workplace relations minister Kevin Andrews was downplaying its impact. He told the March 24 Workplace Express: "People
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