"Dangerous hoons" was how One Nation executive director David Ettridge described the socialist youth organisation Resistance in the week before a 2000-strong demonstration outside One Nation's offices in Manly. "Let's wait until
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Stonewall anniversary BRISBANE — The pinnacle event of the annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival, the Stonewall rally and march, will be held on June 29. The rally will begin at King George Square at 11am and march to Musgrave Park for a
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Anti-racist protest at Hanson's Gold Coast launch "Stop Hanson's racism" is the theme of a rally being planned by Brisbane's Anti-Racist Campaign, in conjunction with activists on the Gold Coast, to protest at the launch of Pauline Hanson's One
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Adams ban challengedBRISBANE — Despite the growing support for Sinn Féin in northern Ireland, as registered in recent British elections, Sinn Féin leader and recently elected MP Gerry Adams is not allowed into
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Conservationist defects to mining lobbyBRISBANE — Frances Herbert, former Queensland Conservation Council spokesperson on the Stradbroke Island anti-sand-mining campaign, took up the position of public policy officer with
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Correction In the article "Occupations: where do they fit in?" by Ray Fulcher and Marina Carman in GLW #278, two errors were introduced in the process of shortening the article. The quote, attributed to Socialist Alternative, of the need to
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Self-esteem and market shareSelf-esteem and market share The Body Shop has recently launched a very trendy, very clever advertising campaign. It's all about "self-esteem", defined in the slick campaign booklet as "self-authority, dignity,
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Anti-racism and trade unions As one of the speakers at the protest rally outside Hanson's One Nation meeting in Adelaide on June 12, I took up the theme of trade unions campaigning against racism. I referred to the past history of activism in
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On June 13, immigration minister Philip Ruddock announced a series of new requirements for around 8000 people, temporarily resident in Australia on humanitarian grounds, to either obtain permanent residency after a 10-year
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AgendasAgendas By Brandon Astor Jones "Yes, as my swift days near their goal,/ 'Tis all that I implore:/ In life and death a chainless soul,/ With courage to endure." — Emily Brontë, 1818-1848 I received a letter recently
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Since May, when Pauline Hanson began holding public meetings around the country to build her One Nation party, some 45,000 people have taken to the streets against her racist movement. Protesters have far outnumbered those
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne
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James Vassilopoulos "If you do not fight for anything, you lose the whole lot" was the key lesson for Nigel Gould, secretary-treasurer of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union at Weipa, after leading the fight against the
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New SA anti-worker laws ADELAIDE — SA industrial affairs minister Dean Brown has announced fast-track implementation of new unfair dismissal laws which will affect over half of state workers. From July 1, small business employers with fewer
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While our great parliamentary leader visits the cricket at Lords and enjoys tea and scones with the queen, those at Green Left are hard at work, going about producing a quality independent weekly newspaper. But it takes more than hard work and
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BRISBANE — State education in Queensland has traditionally been one of the lowest funded in Australia. With the election of the Goss Labor government in 1989, some of this disparity was addressed. But Labor veered away from its
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Before the end of the year, the government will decide whether another nuclear research reactor is to be built in Australia. The HIFAR reactor, located at Lucas Heights, just south of Sydney, cannot operate beyond 2003 unless it
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Ask what you can do for your countryAsk what you can do for your country Your attention please! Can we settle down. In the back there — yes, you! ... see me after. All right then. That's better. We have called this special
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Reject Coalition's anti-union push: WA workers show the wayPERTH — In 1995, when WA Coalition labour relations minister Graham Kierath tried to introduce the "second wave" of anti-union laws, the whole Coalition was
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Migrant women rallyCANBERRA — "We've learned to speak. We've learned to stand and walk. Don't cut off our legs." These words adorned placards held by 100 women who rallied outside Parliament House on June 17 to oppose cuts to
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In-expressways "Things introduced by decadent capitalism have made inroads into our country, penetrating all sectors in the party and society." — Hou Zongbin, vice-chairperson of the Chinese Communist Party's discipline commission, in an
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Campaign Against Racism established in MelbourneMELBOURNE — Campaign Against Racism was set up here at a meeting on June 12. CAR was established to oppose the racism of Howard and Hanson following the successful
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Indonesia, East Timor public meetingSYDNEY — "How long can Suharto Survive?" was the theme of a public meeting held by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) on June 19. An audience of 50 people heard
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Metalworkers rally for award MELBOURNE—Metalworkers around Victoria attended rallies to defend their award conditions over the past week. They were responding to the fact that July 1 is the day on which the provisions of the Howard
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Saving Giblett forest — againPERTH — Giblett forest, one of the areas saved from logging by WA's 1994 forest blockade, has been under threat again since earlier this year, when the WA government's
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Aboriginal leaders condemn land theftBRISBANE — Since the 1967 referendum, "the advances of the first 10 years for Aboriginal people have stagnated over the last 20 years", declared FAIRA (Foundation for Aboriginal and
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New threat to Aboriginal Day of Mourning siteSYDNEY — Aboriginal activists campaigning to save the historic Day of Mourning conference site in Elizabeth Street are stepping up their campaign following the lodging of a
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'Big pong' hits AdelaideADELAIDE — A controversy has been literally "brewing" out in the streets over the last few months. Because of a breakdown in the processing of sewage at the state's largest treatment plant, the air has
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Australians for Native Title launchedSYDNEY — Four hundred people, including high-profile actors, Aboriginal leaders, TV personalities, singers and sports stars attended the launch of Australians for Native Title on
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Strike threat at Olympic siteSYDNEY — Members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union at the Olympic site at Homebush Bay have threatened to take industrial action if their concerns over workplace safety
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On May 28, the chair of the government's review of higher education, Roderick West, stated publicly that the Liberals' cuts to funding had affected higher education quality through staff cuts, less student-staff contact hours,
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Festival Records picket continuesSYDNEY — Picketers outside Festival Records have entered their sixth week on the picket line established by members of the National Union of Workers after Festival issued redundancy
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Government gags EDOsIn a major attack on the enforcement of environmental law, the Howard government has told Environmental Defender's Offices (EDOs) that they can no longer take legal action against state or federal
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The government announced on June 18 that from July next year, a new common youth allowance will replace unemployment benefits for young people aged 18-20, Austudy and youth training, sickness and family allowances. The
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James Vassilopoulos In an unprecedented move, eight community and church aged care provider groups have issued a joint paper highly critical of the federal government's changes in aged care. The organisations include the Alzheimers Association
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HEBRON — Tension was high as I entered the city centre. Someone warned me that there had been more "problems"; I soon saw what they meant. Ahead Palestinian youth clutched rocks, while the soldiers faced them with machine-guns
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Early this year, Beijing's international investment arm — China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) — sold 15.5% of its Hong Kong-listed Citic Pacific to the latter's chairman, Larry Yung Chi-kin, and senior
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Protesters destroy government office in East Java On Friday, June 13, thousands of people supporting the PPP [United Development Party] in Jember, East Java, held a protest action over the elections. This action eventually developed into mass
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Pakistani carpet workers strike On June 11, 20,000 members of the United Carpet Industries Labour Union struck in Lahore, closing all 130 workplaces in the city. Red flags were flying outside the occupied factories and above the four strike
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London verdict gives McDonald's little joy A verdict was handed down on June 19 in the libel case brought by McDonald's against two supporters of London Greenpeace, Helen Steel and Dave Morris, for distributing a six-page fact sheet, "What's
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The Indonesian press has described riots at Medaeng prison in Surabaya on June 11 and 12 as the biggest in Indonesian history. According to Pos Kota daily, 575 prisoners rioted, destroying 12 buildings, including six prison blocks.
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JERUSALEM — Well-known political commentator Noam Chomsky spoke to a packed lecture theatre on June 7 at Bir Zeit University, near the Palestinian town of Ramallah. Chomsky has been a consistent critic of US policy in the Middle
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LAHORE — Jeddojuhd Inqilabi Tehrik (Struggle Revolutionary Movement) was formed in 1994 in Lahore by trade union and Marxist activists around the monthly magazine Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers Struggle) as a movement to
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LONDON — The first public meeting of the International Committee Against Disappearances (ICAD) British section was held here on May 21. The use of "disappearances" as a means of intimidation and oppression against indigenous
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AMSTERDAM — On June 14, 50,000 people from across Europe gathered in Amsterdam at Dam Square to protest against "unemployment, exclusion and insecurity". The protest preceded the Inter Governmental
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Pagans at Brendan Behan @box text intro = SYDNEY — The Born Again Pagans will be launching a new CD on Thursday, June 26, from 8 to 10pm, at the Brendan Behan Hotel (formerly the Britannia) in Cleveland Street, Chippendale. An occasion not to
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Brisbane's Solstice FestivalBRISBANE — The city's third Winter Solstice Festival took place over the June 6-9 long weekend. The festival is described by its organisers, the Queensland Folk Federation, as demonstrating a
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The Cultural Front: the Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth CenturyBy Michael DenningVerso, 1996. 556 pp., $55.00 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon Swimming against the stream all the time can be tiring and unrewarding, for Marxists as much
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Two Faces (Detention Without Trial)By Dr Syed Husin AliINSAN, Malaysia, 1996, 169pp.Order from INSAN, 11, Jalan 11/4E, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Review by Eva Cheng Since 1960, the Malaysian government has used a tool
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Inventing the AbbottsProduced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Janet Meyers Review by John Tognolini The advertisement on TV shows three young women. "They're the Abbots — they're rich", it blasts out. The next scene is two young men, and the
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MELBOURNE — Maree Clarke, coordinator of the Koori Arts Unit (KAU) of the City of Port Phillip, was recently contacted by a woman who wanted to buy some Aboriginal art. "I told her to come and see the work we had left from