Resistance pushes on
MELBOURNE — Resistance members here spent their Labour Day holiday on March 30 at the Push On concert at Melbourne's Luna Park. Thousands of young people, mainly high school students, gathered to hear bands play.
Resistance members sold 20 copies of Green Left Weekly, joined four people to our organisation and collected around 100 signatures on a petition against mandatory sentencing. Fundraising was helped along by an "anti-GST on tampons" game, the aim of which was to throw as many tampons as possible through a hole in the head of a cartoon picture of John Howard.
By Katie Neville and Justine Kamprad
Interest in Marxism
So far, more than 130 people have attended Resistance's national forum series held on campuses during March.
The forums, titled "Marxism: outdated theory or guide to revolution?", have discussed the need for an alternative to the growing inequality and environmental destruction created by capitalism and have put forward a Marxist explanation of society and discussed how it can be put into practice.
Forums on other campuses will be held this week. See pages 28-29 for details.
By Bronwyn Powell
Windsor Smith advertisements hit
BRISBANE — More than 20 Windsor Smith billboards have been paint-bombed and graffitied with the word "SEXIST" here. Supposedly advertising shoes, the billboards show a woman with exposed cleavage sitting submissively before a man in a pose suggestive of oral sex.
The Feminist Underground Guerrilla Group organised the attacks after a similar action in Sydney.