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Poem: Gold card people

Poem: Gold card people Gold card people Gold card people just live to buy Plastic people tag along for the ride Only real people earn free flybuys But working people just sweat and cry they serve the tables they pour the wine

ACF slams Borbidge over Hinchinbrook

ACF slams Borbidge over Hinchinbrook By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Australian Conservation Foundation has slammed Premier Rob Borbidge over a letter he sent to federal Environment Minister Senator Robert Hill demanding an end to World Heritage

British anti-roads campaigner tours

MELBOURNE — JASON TORRANCE is a British anti-roads campaigner who now lives in Australia. Torrance will be speaking here on March 6 at "Global Insights", an evening of environmental news clips gathered from alternative media around the world, at

Arguments for socialism: The future of solidarity

The future of solidarityThe future of solidarity By Peter Boyle Federal and state governments are doing their best to abolish solidarity. It's against their law for workers for one capitalist to show their solidarity with workers of other

Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Lenin and the Revolutionary PartyBy Paul Le BlancWith an introduction by Ernest MandelHumanities Press, 1990, 1993. 417 pp. $40 (pb) Review by Karl Miller This book is an excellent, detailed study of the Bolshevik party. Le Blanc examines the

Student delegation returns from East Timor

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

The legacy of Deng

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

Socialists make a splash at UQ

By Roberto Jorquera BRISBANE — Orientation week was held at the University of Queensland from February 16 to 19. During that week, Resistance held vibrant stalls that attracted hundreds of people interested in socialist politics. More than 150

CES to go: lessons of a shambles

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

Write on: Letters to the editor

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

Brunswick Music Festival

Brunswick Music Festival By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — The eighth Brunswick Music Festival kicks off on February 28 with Festivals Australia Indigenous Sounds, a weekend dedicated to the indigenous music and culture of Australia. The event

Protests against nuclear waste shipment

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