Across the country, Resistance activists are preparing to attend its 24th national conference. The conference is being held in Melbourne from July 8-10 and is the largest socialist youth gathering held annually in Australia.
It is a focus for
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Walking free
By Shane Riley
Sentenced to jail
my freedom lost
just another thing taken
from the Koori generation
They don't care or understand
all i want is our land
Long bay jail on my tribal ground
i walk on her everyday
Action updates
BRISBANE — An angry group of chanting, sign-toting protesters opposed to the planned South Coast Motorway taunted environment minister Molly Robson and her ALP supporters as she launched her re-election campaign in Springwood on
Ecological thoughts at bedtime
The Story of Rosy Dock
By Jeannie Baker
A Mark Macleod Book, Random House. $19.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Reading rewards us all. And reading to others — especially if they're little — cuts both ways.
Green Left Weekly soccer championship
By Jorge Jorquera
PERTH — May 28 was the inauguration of the Green Left Weekly Soccer Championship at Perth College oval. It proved a successful fundraising event for GLW, and provided exercise and
By Eva Cheng
During May, the Chinese government threw at least 24 dissidents into jail and detained another 41 in a wave of arrests that followed three petitions by activists and leading intellectuals. The petitions called for the release of
April 30 was the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam. The war has been the subject of much recent media coverage, especially following Robert McNamara's attempt at rewriting history. One view of the war was
Drought aid misses target
By Chris Spindler
Last week the federal government announced an extra $40.3 million in drought aid to some areas that did not receive recent rainfalls. But the package has only confused farmers, as its arbitrary
Bosnia: the West has dirty hands
Western media outrage over hostage-taking of UN "peacekeeping" forces in Bosnia and Hercegovina by Radovan Karadzic's Bosnian Serb army is appallingly selective. The Bosnian Serb army has maintained whole cities
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Simon de Faux, a Victorian nurse sent to East Timor as a volunteer for the Catholic Church, was warned by the Australian government not to go public with his first-hand experiences of human rights abuses in East
The Brisbane Home Front, 1939-1945
Exhibition, Brisbane City Hall
Seven days per week until August 20
Reviewed by Dave Riley
After a life in the shadow of my parents' memories of "the War" (as though there have been no others since), the
SA teachers protest budget cuts
By Adam Hanieh
ADELAIDE — Seven thousand teachers and supporters rallied on May 30 to protest against expected cuts to the state education budget. The half-day stoppage, organised by the South Australian
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