Looking out: To death"At the door of life, by the gate of breath,There are worse things waiting for men than death." — Algernon Charles Swinburn On August 13, at 10:01 am, I folded a piece of art paper into a makeshift
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Militant's anti-racist student 'united' front Comment by Kerryn Williamsand Jorge Jorquera MELBOURNE — The recent growth in anti-racist organisation among high school students has been set back here by the sectarian political intervention of
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"Get ready for class war", wrote Sydney Morning Herald columnist Paul Sheehan in response to the release of the Labor Party's tax package. This theme was continued by other columnists and by Prime Minister John Howard. Howard told the
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A new class of water pollutants has been discovered during the past six years. Pharmaceutical drugs given to people and domestic animals, including antibiotics, hormones, strong pain killers, tranquillisers and chemotherapy
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...and ain't i a woman?: Every worker's right On August 23, a strong campaigner for equal opportunity for women in the workplace died of cancer. Clare Burton's research and writings — some of the most influential of which are collected in The
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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. Ph 9565 5522. Access News —
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The rise of the racist, anti-worker One Nation presents a big challenge to the union movement. The federal election will be a further test after the 23% statewide vote One Nation received in the Queensland elections. Unions,
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Reith chickens out BRISBANE — Federal industrial relations minister Peter Reith was forced to cancel an election campaign street-walk in West End on September 4 after 100 people gathered outside the local Liberal campaign office to condemn the
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Karl Marx's analysis of how capitalist economies operate has never been popular with newspaper owners, other capitalists or the politicians who serve them. This remains the case even when they have to make use of his insights,
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For actions, not words, against racism MARINA CARMAN, Resistance national anti-racism spokesperson, answers questions about Resistance's approach to fighting One Nation and racism. Question: Why is fighting racism a political issue? Why doesn't
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Best of all possible worlds Bet ya' can't wait to get into the booth and make your mark for democracy. Bet ya' real excited about this election. Come October 3, you're sure to be up early and down at the local school hall before the bunting's
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While distributing Green Left Weekly shortly after Pauline Hanson's recent announcement that she would publicly release her pre-election speaking itinerary, a passer-by cautioned: "Don't demonstrate outside her meetings, it only
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Write on: Letters to the editor Tax treachery Australia is a country destroyed by decades of political manipulation and treachery. This is exemplified in the deceitful booklet issued by the current Government entitled "Tax Reform, not a new tax,
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Diana fever Welcome to Green Left Weekly — a paper that is a Diana-free zone. If you were hoping to find a seven-part series on the life and times of Di as you scanned these pages, along with glamour posters and special details on how to win a
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Resistance pledges rallies/walkouts against Hanson"Resistance high school students will call protest rallies whenever and wherever Hanson and her candidates hold election meetings", Marina Carman, a national spokesperson of
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On September 2, Warren Snowdon, federal ALP candidate for the Northern Territory, announced that Labor was unable to determine until after the election whether or not it would close the Jabiluka uranium mine if elected. Snowdon
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By Ben Philpottand Arrow Tong ADELAIDE — Posters are being pasted up in schools and public places here by the neo-Nazi group National Action. The posters feature a picture of Resistance leader Marina Carman and state that Resistance is a
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ADELAIDE — In mid-August, Community and Public Sector Union members working for Centrelink in South Australia voted overwhelmingly in favour of a "stop the cuts" campaign to fight the loss of 160 jobs. On August 25, the CPSU
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Students organise against attack on arts schoolHOBART — The Tasmania University Union (TUU) has organised a campaign to protect the university's art school from "rationalisation". The administration is considering closing
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Mining still threatens Great Barrier ReefOn August 19, federal environment minister Robert Hill announced new regulations to ban mining and drilling on the Great Barrier Reef. The move will not, however, stop three proposed
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Mirrar elder fined for trespass on her own landDARWIN — The senior elder of the Mirrar people, Yvonne Margarula, has been convicted and fined $500 for trespassing on her own land. Three other Aboriginal people, who were
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CANBERRA — One of Canberra's biggest rallies in years was held on September 2 when many forces combined to express their opposition to MLA Paul Osborne's attempt to outlaw abortion in the ACT. Canberra's city square was filled with
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Not socialist "The time is coming when we [the ALP] will either be a socialist party or we will finish up as a muddle-headed, middle-class, petit-bourgeois, status-seeking party." — Former Labor leader Arthur Calwell, in his 1972 memoirs.
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MELBOURNE — Local residents and migrant communities in inner-city Richmond have decided to organise a community street march against racism and One Nation. The march will be on Saturday, September 12, at 12.30pm. It will assemble at
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Green candidate proud of 'activist' tag By Stephen O'Brien NEWCASTLE — The NSW Greens' number one Senate candidate, university lecturer John Sutton, is proud of his "activist" tag, which right-wing critics have levelled at him for his role on
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By Norrian Rundle and Michael O'Reilly On September 1, primary and secondary school teachers in the eastern half of Victoria stopped work. Schools in the western half of the state took stop-work action on August 18. The half-day stop-work on
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By Stephen O'Brien NEWCASTLE — The Democratic Socialists will accept the challenge issued by Bob Baldwin, Liberal MP for the Hunter Valley seat of Paterson. Baldwin warned last month that if Resistance ran in his seat he would buck Liberal Party
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Rally in the ValleyBRISBANE — The second in a series of anti-racism community rallies organised by the Democratic Socialists and Resistance took place in the Chinatown mall, Fortitude Valley, on September 5. With the slogans
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On September 1, the federal government decided to withdraw from the forest assessment process for north-east NSW. The assessments are the basis for 20-year regional forest agreements between governments, the timber industry and
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Students put Kennett on spotMELBOURNE — On September 2, TAFE students from across Victoria assembled at the Peninsula TAFE in Frankston to tell premier Jeff Kennett what they think of his funding cuts to the TAFE system. More
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Anti-racism fund off to great startThe Resistance Anti-racism Campaign Fund has received a big "kick-start" with a $1000 donation from a Brisbane supporter. "Courage is our banner. Whenever injustice exists, we will stand
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WA socialists announce candidatesPERTH — On September 1, the Democratic Socialists announced their candidates for the federal seat of Perth and the Senate. Iggy Kim will stand in Perth. The WA Senate team will be Sarah Stephen
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Latham outlines Labor education policyNEWCASTLE — Mark Latham, federal Labor spokesperson for higher education, addressed a forum organised by the Newcastle University Students' Association and the Labor Club on August 24.
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Stop the attacks on ATSIC The federal government has been busy preparing the ground for another round of attacks on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), and Aboriginal people in general. Recent new allegations of rorting
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Indian students chart way forwardPATNA, Bihar
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An International Joint Commission (IJC) was created by treaty between the US and Canada in 1909, to resolve problems in the Great Lakes. Since 1972, the IJC has been working aggressively to improve water quality in the lakes, with
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APCET demands release of political prisoners The Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor Council met in Indonesia for the first time on August 29-31. An APCET media conference called for the release of Xanana Gusmao and all political prisoners in
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Protests continue throughout Indonesia MAX LANE is national coordinator of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET). Lane has been in constant contact with activists from the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD), who are
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Hopes that Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Laurent Kabila — whose rebel forces overthrew the "kleptocracy" of the brutal US-backed Mobutu dictatorship in 1997 — would usher in an era of peace, justice and regional cooperation
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By Russell Mokhiberand Robert Weissman WASHINGTON — In a Congress eager to do the bidding of big business, an item atop the Chamber of Commerce's corporate welfare agenda is in serious jeopardy. The establishment leadership of the House of
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Controversial Melanesian Solidarity (Melsol) MP and Eastern Highlands provincial Governor Peti Lafanama was stripped of his seat in the Papua New Guinea parliament on August 28. The PNG Supreme Court ruled that statements made by
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Radical Basque paper closedThe Spanish government launched another serious attack on the democratic rights of the Basque people when it forced the closure of the left-wing Basque daily newspaper Egin and its sister radio station,
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On August 28, the Pakistan government introduced a bill — the Fifteenth Amendment Bill — to the National Assembly to amend the constitution to make Islamic law the supreme law of Pakistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, speaking
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MOSCOW — When US President Bill Clinton sat down with Boris Yeltsin on September 1 for the first day of their summit meeting, Russia was without a prime minister, a government or a strategy able to deal with the country's worst
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September 11 marks the 25th anniversary of the overthrow of the left-wing president of Chile, Salvador Allende, by the military. The bloody coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power ended with the assassination of Allende and
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According to an August survey of Thailand's Board of Investment, within five industries — food and beverages, textiles, plastics, automobiles and services — which received special state promotion, 82,000 workers lost their jobs in
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WELLINGTON, NZ — The crisis for right-wing political parties in New Zealand deepened last month when the deputy prime minister, Winston Peters, and a number of other New Zealand First MPs walked out of cabinet over the sale of the Wellington
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On August 27, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution which might enable progress towards the lifting of UN sanctions against Libya. The resolution proposes that the Libyan government hand over, for trial in the
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Pakistan Labour Party condemns bill Following is an abridged version of the text of a statement issued by the general secretary of Pakistan's Labour Party, Farooq Tariq, about the Pakistan government's Fifteenth Amendment Bill. The Fifteenth
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PALMERSTON NORTH, NZ — The New Zealand government recently passed legislation forcing all student unions to hold referendums on voluntary membership before May 1, 1999. In 1995, right-wing students at Waikato University formed a
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Marxist Economics: a handbook of basic definitions, published by Resistance Books, was first developed by renowned Belgian economist Ernest Mandel and English economics writer Alan Freeman for the Fourth International's cadre school
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MELBOURNE — Well known band Even will headline a Rock Against Racism to be held here on Sunday, September 13. "It would be more accurate to call it a jazz, soul and rock against racism", event organiser Jo Williams told Green Left Weekly. The
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Earlier this year, I set up New World Order Theatre in Brisbane. There was no manifesto to mark its birth, nor raving reviews to greet its first production. It happened, like so many things, because it seemed like a good idea at the
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SnorkelLa Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, CarltonBy Richard BladelDirected by Peter HoughtonWith Carmen Mascia, Christopher UhlmannUntil 13 September Review by Vannessa Hearman Snorkel tells the story of two siblings bonded by a history of family