News

  • Which way forward for unions?

    CANBERRA — A seminar held here on September 8 heard two very different views on how unions should prepare to meet the changes proposed in the Workplace Relations Bill currently before parliament. Craig Simmons, ACT organiser with

  • Resistance campaigns for Wollongong SRC

    WOLLONGONG — To inform and mobilise more students in the campaign against the Howard government's attacks on higher education, Resistance is running for positions on the Wollongong University Student Representative

  • High school students protest youth

    SYDNEY — The recently formed United Secondary Students Union of NSW is calling on high school students across Sydney to walk out of school on October 22 to protest against the state government's "street safety" legislation. The

  • Speak-out against racism

    Speak-out against racismBRISBANE — Independent MP for Oxley Pauline Hanson should "look at the history of Australia, which was built on the backs of the Aboriginal people", Aboriginal pastor Reg Yates told a rally of some 200 in

  • NTEU launches new campaign

    NTEU launches new campaignThe National Council of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union met on October 3-5 to decide on its higher education campaign directions. The outcome was a turn to a "leading site" strategy:

  • WA group opposes anti-gay discrimination

    WA group opposes anti-gay discriminationPERTH — In response to the failure of same-sex amendments to equal opportunity legislation to be put to state parliament, a new group called Queer Radical has been formed. The group held

  • Students activating the education campaign

    Students activating the education campaignPERTH — In an effort to strengthen the education campaign and establish a more representative student guild, a range of education, environment and feminist activists will be

  • Gearing up to reclaim the night

    Gearing up to reclaim the nightCANBERRA — Kamini Junankar, a Resistance member involved in organising this year's Reclaim the Night march here on October 25, told Green Left Weekly that the theme of the event is to reclaim

  • Loose cannons

    Good housekeepers, unite! "Labour will be the party of sound finance and good housekeeping." — British Labour Party leader Tony Blair, summoning the faithful to electoral battle. Doing things "A number of examples have come to my attention

  • Day of protest for democracy in Indonesia

    SYDNEY — Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) has issued an emergency appeal to activists around the world to defend the political prisoners arrested in Indonesia during the recent military

  • Thanks for another milestone

    For 250 issues now, Green Left Weekly has taken a stand against the rich and powerful, exposing the lies spread by their ownership of the establishment media: 250 issues of independent news and opinion, with a breadth and depth of coverage that is

  • Student solidarity with Indonesia

    By Vaarunika Dharamapala. PERTH — A cross-campus week of solidarity with Indonesia will be held here between October 21-27. The event was initiated by Resistance and is supported by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor. After the