By Sean Healy
Organisers of the 26th Resistance national conference have scheduled a special tribute to murdered East Timorese resistance leader David Alex as part of the conference. Alex, the second in command of the Falintil guerillas, was
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By Tony Hastings
EAST GIPPSLAND — The chainsaw crews and bulldozers are ripping into Goolengook's rainforest again. Winter has set in, and the road is too boggy to drive log trucks in, so they are building roads — paid for by the Victorian
A child of poverty in modern Iran
A True StoryDirected by Abolfazi JaliliSydney Film Festival Review by Brendan Doyle
There are films that stay with you long after the screening. For me, this tiny-budget, hardly edited and atrociously
Protest stops sand mining
By Bernard Wunsch
NORTH STRADBROKE ISLAND — A five-week protest camp outside the Gordon sand mine operated by Consolidated Rutile Limited has ended with conservationists claiming victory after keeping the mine
By Marina Cameron
After the federal government cut $2.3 billion from university operating grants last year, university administrations have been scrabbling to make up costs by cutting staff, courses, libraries and services and charging more
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Anti-nuclear campaigners in Russia are locked in battle with state authorities over plans by the Atomic Energy Ministry to start a lucrative business reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear waste. If the ministry
By Filomena da Silva
Another Timorese freedom fighter has fallen. David Alex Daitula, 46 years old, was Falintil deputy chief of staff, regional commander in the Bacau area, and one of the earliest fighters for Timorese nationalism with the
ALP right loses AWU elections
By James Vassilopoulos
In elections in the Australian Workers Union, the positions of national secretary, national president and two of the four national vice-presidents have been won by a broad coalition,
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — June 26 was the WA Trades and Labour Council's "Day of Defiance", part of the campaign against the Court government's "third wave" of anti-union laws. Around 6000-8000 workers attended from all over the city and some
Hanson and the 'battlers'
By Peter Boyle
The big business media paint Hanson as a "battler" championing the interest of other "battlers". This is a false picture. Hanson is small business person (one of the wealthier ones), and many
The Unconscious CivilisationABC Massey LecturesBy John Ralston SaulPenguin, 1995. 208 pp.A Truly Civil SocietyBoyer LecturesBy Eva CoxABC in booklet form or from the ABC web site. Review by Gerry Harant
Since their broadcast on the ABC, a book
By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — The Queensland minister for health, National Party member Mike Horan, has launched an attack on women's right to abortion. Horan displayed his ultra-right, anti-woman views on the weekend of June 21-22 when
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