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Against VSU in Brisbane

By Ita Breduauer BRISBANE — The March 28 national day of action against voluntary student unionism here will begin at noon in King George Square, with a march to Parliament House. There will also be live entertainment on the Kidney Lawn at

'Wring out' at Fairlea Women's Prison

By Kim Linden MELBOURNE — The first "Wring out" of Fairlea Women's Prison was held in 1988. This describes the encircling of the prison and putting the squeeze on the Department of Corrections. The aim is to get people to come to the prison

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm. Movie: The Rat Saviour (1976) — Set in a central

Foundations of racism in Australia

By Iggy Kim Racial categories are purely social — founded not on biological realities, but on objectively meaningless and arbitrarily selected physical traits, such as skin colour. Racial categorisation fetishises these features and

Write on: letters to the editor

New Zealand unions Eva Cheng's review of Jane Kelsey's Economic Fundamentalism (GLW #223) thankfully draws attention to the lie that many here claim to be the New Zealand miracle. However, the accompanying photo might give the impression to

Can Russian Communists topple Yeltsin?

Since supporters of President Boris Yeltsin were routed in parliamentary elections in December, Russians have been faced with the prospect that their next president may be Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF).

Loose cannons

Lateral thinking "I don't think anybody is saying that it's an easy thing to change, but there are certainly many people thinking laterally, thinking how we can actually rejig this, how can we actually get the money to be able to knock off

Rush to start uranium mining

By Pip Hinman The March 15 announcement by the minister for resources, Senator Warwick Parer, that Australia would be "delighted" to sell uranium to Indonesia for its planned nuclear power stations, is an indication of just how quickly the

Solidarity with East Timor in Wollongong

By Fiona Passmore WOLLONGONG — On March 20, students at Wollongong University attended a Resistance forum on the theme "East Timor: Freedom Now!". A key issue raised in the discussion was the Australian government's tacit support for the

Mordecai Richler in Jerusalem

This Year in JerusalemBy Mordecai RichlerNew York: Knopf, 1994. $25Reviewed by Vivienne Porzsolt Canadian Jewish writer Mordecai Richler's rich account interweaves his boyhood in Montreal in the 1930s and '40s — poor, orthodox Jewish, filled with

Women at war

Bold GirlsBy Rona MunroDirected by Ken BoucherBelvoir Street Theatre until April 14Reviewed by Trish Corcoran This play gives the audience an insight into the way families are affected in countries at war. In particular, it explores the issues that

Young feminists speak out

The thousands of people who took to the streets around Australia for International Women's Day showed that feminism is still very relevant to many people. KAMALA EMANUEL spoke with KAREN FRY, ANGELA HATFIELD and CHERYL WALSH about what feminism