The Communist Party in Western Australia played an important and often leading role in winning social gains from the 1930s to the 1960s. This was despite the difficulties of building a party from a very small membership, relative isolation from the
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On October 26 and 27 women around Australia will take part in the annual Reclaim the Night march, demanding an end to violence against women and children. Reclaim the Night marches in recent years have been attracting large numbers of women, many of
By James Balowski "Please do something, we can't see the young people, they have all disappeared." This appeal, related to Green Left Weekly by a resident of Matadouro, a suburb of Dili, conveys a sense of what "restoring law and order" means for the
By Karen Fry NEWCASTLE — Fifty people protested outside the Department of Training and Education's regional office in Newcastle on October 16. The focus of the action was the Carr government's decision, announced in the October 9 state budget, to
At the Barricades (1981) Radical Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett's autobiography covers the high spots of politics from the 1930s to the end of the 1970s. A reporter during World War II, Burchett was the first western journalist to report on
By Tony Iltis CANBERRA — The history of the revolutionary socialist movement in Australia was the subject of the 1995 Jim Percy Memorial Lecture on October 18. Delivered by Democratic Socialist Party national secretary John Percy, the lecture
Bureaucracy lives! "Anyone who manufactures, tests, launches or drops a nuclear bomb within the City of Toronto is violating official policy." — Toronto City Council announcement in the Toronto Globe and Mail. Question ... "Essentially, a number of
By Dave Wright and Nick Soudakoff SYDNEY — Following in the pattern of Labor and Liberal governments in other states, the NSW Carr Labor government slashed public sector jobs in its October 10 budget. This follows seven years of Liberal government
By Allen Myers PHNOM PENH — Guests arriving for a French commercial promotion at the Hotel Cambodiana on October 16 were met by several dozen demonstrators wearing T-shirts which demanded an end to French nuclear tests in the Pacific and handing
Women in the Age of Economic TransformationEdited by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Steven Pressman & Gale SummerfieldRoutledge, 1994, 232 pp.Reviewed by Carla Gorton Does privatisation marginalise women? How are women affected by the development process? Are
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — A Labor Party committee, chaired by former federal president Mick Young, has called for widespread internal reform. The report paints a picture of a party, run by a chosen few, ruling over a membership which believes the
In the largest all-black demonstration in the US since the 1950s civil rights movement, more than a million people, mainly African-American men, marched on Washington on October 16. Green Left Weekly's LISA MACDONALD spoke to MALIK MIAH, an
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