Mt Isa dispute nears flashpoint
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The long-running industrial confrontation between workers at the giant Mt Isa Mines lead, copper and zinc mine and the MIM company seems set to escalate further as workers
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By Natasha Simons
More than 6000 students across the country rallied, marched and occupied against university fees on May 3. The demonstrations were part of a second national day of action called by last December's No Fees Activists Conference.
Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw
By Stephen Knight
Blackwell, 1994. 308 pp., $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The Robin Hood legend has been popular for around 600 years. Amongst the latest to revive the tradition, as
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — First, in 1992, there was shock and disorientation as the beginning of "reform" threw at least a third of the Russian population into poverty. Then, in 1993 and 1994, even while output in the economy continued to
ACTU opposes immigration increases
By Lisa Macdonald
In a submission to the federal government's annual review of immigration programs, the ACTU has called for a freeze of the immigration intake in the next financial year at its current
Student organisation calls for solidarity
According to Mautodok, a representative of RENETIL (National Resistance of Free East Timor Students), who is currently in Australia, "The May 13 demonstrations demanding Australia cut military ties with
Looking out: Racism and fascism: the wall
By Brandon Astor Jones
Many readers of this column will know that from time to time I share this space with readers who have written to me citing their personal views and/or experiences that relate
Solidarity night in Brisbane
By Nick Everett
BRISBANE — Sixty people attended an evening entitled "Solidarity with the fight for workers rights and justice and democracy: Indonesia and East Timor" at the Resistance Centre in New Farm on
A Green Left seller in Sydney reports she was given an anonymous donation last week. While she was selling to another buyer near Town Hall in the centre of the city, the unknown man slipped a $50 note into her hand, took a paper and quickly
By Max Lane
SYDNEY — "I hope people will be active and participate in the May 13 protests around Australia", Elino Santos told Green Left Weekly on May 3. For Santos, being "active and participating" has been a way of life in East Timor. From
ADELAIDE — Streets were filled with the sound of honking horns at 4:30pm on May 4 as drivers supported the Resistance "Honk for East Timor" which linked up with the activists from the No Fees Tent City. With Resistance placards demanding that the
By Wang Dan
On July 14, 1994, all the major newspapers in Beijing published the "Detailed Implementations Regulations for the State Security Law." This law had been passed by the 13th session of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National
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