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Anti-war protesters defy police-state tactics

BY EVA CHENG The protests against Bush's war on Afghanistan are growing in many parts of the world despite initial signs that some countries, especially the US, are seeking to respond to any civil disobedience with heavy-handed repression. In the

Film showing: Teater Buruh Indonesia Factory Lives, Factory Theatre

A documentary about Indonesian factory workers who make theatre, produced and presented by Actively Radical Television November 10, 7pm, Tap gallery, cnr Burton and Palmer streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney Also music, wine, poetry and chat by Tim

Intelligent digs at urban neuroses

I am Moderately Fond of AustraliaCartoons by Phil SomervilleHardie Grant Books$24.95 REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY Phil Somerville has contributed cartoons to the Bulletin, the Australian and is a semi-regular humourist at the Sydney Morning Herald. I

Write on: Letters to the editor

Reclaim the Night I This year's Reclaim the Night rally in Melbourne highlighted the need to raise politics in the women's movement. The speakers talked either of their own personal experiences of abuse, or of the abuse of women in general. There

Shock-jock attacks Socialist Alliance candidate

BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — During an October 25 interview on Radio 3AW, Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for Victoria Alison Thorne faced a barrage of abuse and accusation. Thorne was invited by 3AW drive-time host Steve Price to talk

Museworthy: 'I have sent hope to the scaffolding'

I have sent hope to the scaffolding to find thescaffold and to the lake to find the onedrinkable cup but in truth had nointerest in such worthless purposes simplywanted hope away. It is such a round-facedscavenger an icon that never

AFGHANISTAN: Pentagon says civilian casualties not its problem

BY EVA CHENG Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the Bush regime has shown breathtaking disregard for the growing civilian casualties that its round-the-clock bombing in Afghanistan has inflicted on a long-traumatised and now-terrorised population.

Correction

In GLW #469, a picture of Naomi Arrowsmith from the WA South Coast Waters and Rivers Commission was mistakenly used to illustrate an article about Port Kembla Community and Public Sector Union organiser Naomi Arrowsmith. GLW apologises for the

Shier-tollah exiled as old regime goes into hiding

BY ADAM MACLEAN A mutiny by his hand-picked senior managers at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has sealed the fate of Australia's self-styled "mini-media mogul", managing director Jonathan Shier, who resigned at the ABC's board meeting on

Nestle workers resist sackings

BY SARAH PEART BALLARAT — "Despite making a profit of almost a million dollars in the first six months of this year, Nestle has made the decision to close its Maryborough plant. This will directly result in the loss of 140 jobs and more than 500

PAKISTAN: War is 'hell' for working class

The war on Afghanistan has had an enormous impact not only on the country itself but on the whole region around it, especially on neighbouring Pakistan. Reprinted here is an interview with Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan,

WTO: Trade warriors under heavy fire

BY SEAN HEALY While the choice of an autocratic Persian Gulf shiekdom as venue will prevent a repeat of the massive protests which dogged its 1999 Seattle summit, trade negotiators from the world's richest nations are in for no less stormy a time