By the Newtown Political Collective
What sort of city do we want? Do we want cities that are OK to live in? Or do we want cities that are machines for making profit? What sort of city do we have?
Do you live near the M2? Do you live under an
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Black churches in flames
Over the June 10 weekend, two more black churches in the south were torched, in Greenville, Texas, bringing the total of such racist arson attacks to more than 60 since 1990. The number of instances is accelerating —
Homophobia and the royal commission?
In Tom Wilson's article "NSW gays oppose witch hunt", GLW, June 5, there is a major inaccuracy and presumption of a supposed homogeneity of gay and lesbian opinion about the Royal Commission and its supposed
By Arun Pradhan
PERTH — A National Union of Students (NUS) state executive meeting on June 14 voted to slash $2500 from the NUS West women's campaign budget. The meeting was attended by 20 students who opposed the move because it would mean a
By Sarah Stephen
HOBART — Over the past year, Mecca Performance Cafe has become one of the most popular venues for alternative political and cultural performance, as well as alternative political scene and discussion. Political groups such as the
The "peace process" strategy of the Republicans was based on an alliance of all Irish nationalist parties, including bourgeois forces such as the Social Democratic and Labor Party, and the Dublin government. It was aimed at forcing the British to
MELBOURNE — Australia's first and only Melbourne-wide community broadcaster celebrates 20 years of broadcasting this year. Station manager Bruce Francis says, "From an idea of a small group of activists in 1974 to Australia's premier community
A visit to death row
By Glenys Alderton
[Brandon Astor Jones' regular column has apparently been delayed in the post. In its place, we print this account of a visit to him last December.]
It is Christmas Day, and I am sitting on a small, hard
By Nick Fredman
SYDNEY — NSW teachers will stop work for two days on June 2021 if the Department of School Education and TAFE do not agree to their demand for a 12% pay rise with no trade-offs. Teachers from government schools in the metropolitan
By Lisa Macdonald
The Students and Sustainability conference will be held in one of the environment movement's earliest home bases this year. From July 1 to 5, Lismore in northern NSW, will be hosting the national gathering of environmentalists,
By Gus Gulson
In the past, forest reserves in NSW have mostly been created from land that no-one else wanted. Economically unviable areas or areas too steep for logging have made up most of the reserve system. The more productive areas have been
Green Left Weekly was one of the beneficiaries of a recent Darwin fundraising event "Unite against Uranium" organised by several groups involved in the anti-uranium campaign in the Northern Territory, including the Environment Centre, Resistance,
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