Student delegation returns from East Timor
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE On February 20, a delegation of six students from the University of Melbourne returned from a 10-day trip to build links between students in Australia and East Timor. Alex
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By Paul Oboohov and Tom Flanagan
The leadership of the Community and Public Sector Union and its new section council covering the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) have abandoned any pretence of a campaign to
High school students' magazine launched
By Tessha Mearing
WOLLONGONG — On February 12, high school student members of Resistance launched Revolt — Student Underground. Revolt will be produced twice every term. It aims to inform high school
Reversing capitalism
As much as I applaud Alex Bainbridge's sentiment that "all that is needed is for humanity as a whole, rather than the wealthy profiteers, to control production", I am anxious to know how he intends to wrest that control? While
@columhead = Very clean
"It is a very clean deal. There is no payment, no nothing." — Businessman and Suharto crony Mohamad Hasan, confirming that the Indonesian government has given him, free, an additional $1 billion share in the Busang gold
By Eva Cheng
Deng Xiaoping has been acclaimed by politicians, business figures and other "respectable" commentators around the world as the "architect" of China's "modernisation" following the announcement of his death on February 20. They hailed
Protests against nuclear waste shipment
By Pip Hinman
The WA Greens have issued a protest against the secrecy and misinformation surrounding a highly dangerous shipment of nuclear waste travelling from France to Japan. "Any mishap would require
Iranian oil workers arrested
On February 16, hundreds of oil workers and their elected representatives from petroleum refineries in Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Tehran, together with workers of the oil pipelines and the national gas company, were
Rock Against Racism
BRISBANE — An impressive line-up of Brisbane bands swung their support behind a benefit to raise funds for the Anti-Racism Campaign on February 15. Around 300 people attended, with 100 more having to be turned away for lack of
Comment by Dot Tumney
Human immune systems are fascinating. Large chunks of medical research are targeting non-reaction, over-reaction and inappropriate reaction. All this is also making clearer the hows and whys of vaccination procedures. At all
On the box
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm, and Saturday, 7pm.
9point = Access News
Social Security penalises strikers
By Philippa Stanford
One of the federal government's budget changes restricts access to income support payments for people unemployed as a result of participation in industrial action. This provision, which came
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