Global merchants of death
Tobacco has become a political issue in the 1996 presidential campaign. First, Republican candidate Bob Dole, while speaking in a tobacco-growing state, said that many smokers never become addicted to nicotine. This is
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French unionists oppose deportations
Thousands marched in protest at the French government's tough immigration policies on August 28. The demonstrators, led by Communist Party leader Robert Hue, dissident former bishop Jacques Gaillot and human
By Graham Matthews
More than 40 people attended the Brisbane Fight Back conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance here on September 1. The day featured discussion by trade unionists, students, migrants and Aboriginal
Post Election Blues Haiku
everyday
we walk
a little lighter
pockets emptied
into politicians'
lies
John Tomlinson
'No food for our communist enemies'
With these words uttered in front of the television cameras, the police stopped the parents of students locked up in Yonsei University from bringing food and medicine to their sons and daughters. The final
After two weeks of bluster and evasion, the ACTU Council has officially absolved itself from all responsibility for the actions of angry workers at Parliament House on August 19.
In a cowardly and dishonest statement issued from its September 2-4
Can the education campaign win?
By Natasha Simons
Ten thousand university and high school students took to the streets on August 29 as part of a post-budget national day of action against cuts to education, student fee and HECS increases, and
One station for two decades
"Southern trees bear strange fruit. Blood on the leaves and blood on the root. Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. — Lewis Allan
The lines above were made
By Tony Iltis and Nikki Ulasowski
WOLLONGONG — The participation of more than 400 secondary and tertiary students in the rally against cuts to education here on August 29 showed the potential for a broad and militant student movement against the
By Peter Boyle
The August 19 "siege" of Parliament House prompted a torrent of hypocrisy from the establishment media. Television and radio "news" reports and page one stories in the dailies all seemed to be based on the same cliché-ridden,
By Lisa Macdonald
In his budget speech, treasurer Peter Costello admitted without hesitation that unemployment will "probably remain at around 8%". (The latest ABS figures estimate 8.6%, roughly 780,000 people.) After decades of promises by the
By Jorge Jorquera
PERTH — Up to 2000 people participated in the September 5 stop the budget rally here. Almost half were high school students. All the university campuses had good contingents, and hundreds came from nearly every Perth TAFE,
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