By Dave Holmes
Resistance Books, the publishing house associated with Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party, has completed its most successful year to date. With 1999 not yet over, it has brought out 14 titles — eight books and six
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The transition in East Timor
By Avelino da Silva
Before the August 30 referendum, the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) had called for the formation of a transitional Democratic Collective Government to represent all the existing political forces in
South American armies sniff a chance for power
By Jorge Jorquera
QUITO, Ecuador — On November 18, the 23rd session of the Conference of American Armies (CEA) concluded in La Paz, Bolivia. At an impromptu media conference following the Session,
WA prostitution bill punishes the victim
By Julianne Green
PERTH — Last week, Western Australia's police minister, Kevin Prince, released the final draft of legislation to massively increase the regulation of the sex industry. The Prostitution
By Sean Jacobs
CAPE TOWN — The powerful ruling alliance of South African President Thabo Mbeki's African National Congress and the 3 million-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is under strain. In August, thousands of public
Gay and Lesbian service under threat
By Angela Luvera
PERTH — The Gay and Lesbian Community Service of WA, formerly known as Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service, is threatened by a lack of funding. A special general meeting will be held on
Staff angry at university management's 'contempt'
By Daniel Jardine
SYDNEY — Macquarie University staff reacted angrily, at a general meeting on November 18, to management's rejection of a union enterprise bargaining offer, claiming it showed
Gales natural and human
Voyage of the Pacific PeacemakerBy Win OliveSelf-published, 1999299 pp., $25 Review by Bill Ethell
In 1978 Win Olive was invited by three friends to camp beside the East Alligator River in the Northern Territory. After
NSW health crisis highlighted in the Illawarra
By Marg Perrott
WOLLONGONG — The crisis in the NSW health system was addressed at a meeting here on November 17 called by "nurses caring for the health of the Illawarra". One hundred and twenty
Welfare through the looking glass
If anyone has travelled through time, then Lewis Carroll, best known for writing Alice in Wonderland, has. Conclusive evidence is provided by his modelling of the companion novel, Through the Looking Glass, on the
Second wave legislation slammed
By Mark Cronin
BRISBANE — About 60 people gathered at the Sailing Club in West End on November 11 to discuss workplace relations minister Peter Reith's second wave of industrial legislation. David Peetz, head of
The Liverpool dockers put their case
Review by Allen Myers
Dockers: Writing the Wrongs and DockersABC-TV, Wednesday, December 1, 8.30 and 9.30pm The story of the Liverpool dockers' heroic two-and-a-half-year struggle to regain their jobs — and
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