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Black 47: not your usual diddly diddly dee

Black 47: not your usual diddly diddly dee Live in New York CityBlack 47Gadfly RecordsE-mail <gadfly1@aol.com> for details or order from <http://www.black47.com> Review by Bill Nevins 1847 was the year of starvation that drove

A timely look backwards

A timely look backwards Stop Uranium Mining! Australia's decade of protest, 1975-85By Greg AdamsonResistance Books, 199947pp., $4.95 (pb)Available at Resistance Bookshops, or send payment (plus $2 postage) to PO Box 515, Broadway 2007 Review by

... and vote 'no' to the preamble

... and vote 'no' to the preamble The same does not apply to the proposed preamble to the Constitution, which is purely an exercise in hypocrisy and nationalism. Its adoption would not benefit the working class or the left in any way, and Green

Tactics for fighting homophobia

Comment by Zanny Begg SYDNEY — Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) was established to organise against attempts by the Liberty Christian Ministry (LCM) to hold a "Coming out of homosexuality" conference here on September 25. The conference

Write on: letters to the editor

Slavery George Bernard Shaw is famous for saying that under socialism no-one would be allowed to be poor. Guild socialist G.D.H. Cole, when asked what was the greatest evil, responded: not poverty, but slavery. It is tempting to remark that the

Yeltsin forever

By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — Early in September, the main theme of political forecasts in Russia was the supposedly imminent resignation of President Boris Yeltsin. Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of Yeltsin, however, regarded all this

Rage Against the Machine: 'Take today what tomorrow never brings'

'Take today what tomorrow never brings' Review by Leigh Hughes The Battle of Los AngelesRage Against the MachineEpic Records through Sony After a long absence, Rage Against the Machine has blasted back onto the political music scene with its

Metalcorp workers win

By Chris Spindler GEELONG — After six days on the picket line, 10 workers at the Geelong site of Metalcorp Recyclers won the right to be recognised as a union site and to take action on health and safety concerns. They achieved an enterprise

Activists challenge homophobic justice system

By Alex Robinson BRISBANE — Activists picketed the Law Courts here on October 25 about homophobia in the legal system after two men convicted of bombing the Townsville Aids Council office were sentenced to only nine months in prison. Joanne Ball,

Company tax: A deal between Liberal and Labor?

Comment by Sue Boland Most Labor Party voters at the last election hoped that the ALP would resist the Coalition agenda. Instead, the Labor "opposition" is preparing a deal with the government to pass its package of corporate tax cuts. The

Unionists 'living underground'

Unionists 'living underground' By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Unionists on October 27 held a picket outside a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the federal government's second wave workplace relations bill, being conducted in the City Hall

Kumarangk demonstration planned

Kumarangk demonstration planned By John Nebauer ADELAIDE — Activists opposing the building of the bridge to Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) are planning a series of peaceful actions, following a green light to construction work given by the courts