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Capturing the feel of a new movement

S11 DocoWritten, produced and directed by Charlie Hill-Smith, Cindy Elliot & Pat Stirling$8Order a copy by email at <charlie@cobweb.com.au> StruggleKineticDistributed by MGM Records BY SEAN HEALY I've spent most of the last six months

Mapoon residents return after 37 years' exile

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Some 37 years after they were forced from their homes at gunpoint by police acting on the orders of the Queensland National Party government, residents of the far-north Aboriginal settlement of Mapoon have achieved an

and ain't i a woman?: Pink tests for girls, blue tests for boys?

Imagine you are sitting your year 12 exam. Girls sit at the tables with pink-coloured test papers, while boys sit at the tables with the blue test papers. It may sound ridiculous, but this is exactly what is being proposed by the president of the

M1 Protesters tour corporate scumbags

BY DANNY FAIRFAX SYDNEY — After assembling in Hyde Park on March 17, 300 protesters set off on a tour of this city's most notorious corporate scumbags. The tour was organised as part of the build-up toward the May 1 blockade of the Australian

Reactor plans hits another hurdle

BY JIM GREEN The federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights hit another hurdle on March 15 when a French court banned a ship from unloading 360 spent fuel rods from the existing

ZIMBABWE: 'Only a new revolution will dislodge Mugabe'

BY DALE T. McKINLEY HARARE — For a man who might soon find himself facing the life-threatening wrath of a former comrade turned despotic head of state, Dzinashe Machingura shows amazingly little concern. Maybe that's because Machingura is better

CHINA: Rising corruption challenges CP's legitimacy

BY EVA CHENG Public anger against escalating corruption, smuggling, tax evasion, fee extortions and other forms abuses of power by Communist Party officials found expression among the delegates in the traditionally uncontroversial annual sessions

Refugee activist detained in Greece

MELBOURNE — Feminist and socialist activist SURMA HAMID, from the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights, has been active in the campaign to close Australia's immigration detention centres. In February, she was detained by Greek immigration

M1 club censored at Tas Uni

BY SARAH CLEARY HOBART — Despite much interest in the planned M1 action from students, the University of Tasmania's clubs and societies council voted on March 12 to deny an application to affiliate from the campus' M1 Alliance group. While the

Rio Tinto may pursue Jabiluka uranium mine

BY JIM GREEN Multinational mining company Rio Tinto may now decide to complete construction of and then operate the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory itself, it was revealed on March 14. For several months Rio Tinto has been

VIETNAM: The pauper among the 'tigers'?

BY MICHAEL KARADJIS HANOI — While the historic advances made by revolutionary Cuba in education, health, welfare and other fields have long made for impressive contrasts with the grinding poverty, illiteracy and death from preventable diseases

Linencare workers victorious

BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH — After six days of a round-the-clock picket line, workers at Linencare linen service in Perth's southern suburbs returned to work victorious. The members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union,