APEC: what it is and how to fight it
By Dick Nichols
[This is the edited text of a talk to the Slam APEC conference in Manila in November.] APEC brings out all the greed of Australian big business. Multinational mining companies like BHP,
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Court rules on immunisation
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — A recent ruling by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission is sure to have significant impact on parents of young children nationwide. In a landmark decision, commissioner William
By Lisa Macdonald
The debate about the impact of population, and therefore immigration, on Australia's environment is a crucial one for all progressive people. The position that we take defines on which side of the human rights divide we stand, and
Budgeteer Junior
Hello. This is easy! Hello. Hello. Can I write my name? Keiran. My name is Keiran — K.E.I.R.A.N. What do I say next? I am six years old. I am in grade 2. I like Power Rangers, Batman and the Simpsons. And I like the computer. I
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Between September 1 and January 12, voters cast their ballots in elections for the top executive posts in more than 50 of Russia's 89 provinces, territories and ethnic republics. In slightly more than half of these
By Norm Dixon
"The closure of Radio Australia would in effect be an intensification of the media blockade that has been placed on Bougainville by PNG for the past eight years", an angry Moses Havini, spokesperson in Australia for the
By Linda Kaucher
Minister for resources Warwick Parer released the government's "Sustainable Energy'" green paper over the Christmas period, obviously hoping that no-one would notice. It's a shocker. In a cynical play on words, "sustainable energy"
[This is an abridged version of a discussion paper put forward by the socialist youth organisation Resistance for discussion in the student movement.] This will be a crunch year for tertiary education in this country, one in which the student
By Sonny Melencio
MANILA — Temic (Telefunken Microelectronics Incorporated) is a company with around 3500 workers, mostly women, in the microchips industry. The Temic plant in Taguig, Metro Manila, accounts for 80% of German investment in the
Desertion
By Brandon Astor Jones
"When I say that we have begun to desert and abandon one another, I mean that African-American men should start refusing to kill and maim each other. No, I am not suggesting that we start killing Caucasian men,
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