Critical Mass
HOBART — Critical Mass is an "organised coincidence" whereby, on one evening each month, the usual fossil fuel-driven peak hour traffic gives way to a slow moving, singing, chanting convoy of cyclists, skaters and walkers.
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By Samuel King
"Education for and through enterprise" was the refrain of the 1995 Karpin report to the federal Labor government, attempting to legitimise direct ties between the school system and business. Since that time, the trend towards
Thousands of trade unionists in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique prevented trucks entering or leaving Swaziland on March 3, in solidarity with the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions.
By Max Watts
On March 5, ABC's Lateline interviewed Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer, OBE, British army retired. Colonel Spicer was not quite shown, because he insisted on remaining an anonymous shadow. Spicer is now the chief executive officer of
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.
Access News — Melbourne
Education campaign at ANU
By Martin Iltis
CANBERRA — An education forum organised by the Australian National University Students Association affirmed the need to have both ANU and cross-campus education collectives build actions such as
The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American LeftBy Tim WohlforthHumanities Press, 1994. 330 pp., $26. Review by Adam Hanieh
Tim Wohlforth was a key figure in the US Trotskyist movement from the McCarthy years until the '70s. This highly
The Long Walk
It began in Adelaide and covered 85 kilometres as it made its way south to the town of Goolwa. There it ended in Amelia Park at the water's edge of Kumarangk, also known as Hindmarsh Island.
Walking from November 25-30, 1996,
By Jeremy Smith
Last year an education alliance was formed among student unions, the NTEU and other campus unions and the vice-chancellors, in opposition to the Howard government's tertiary education funding cutbacks. It was quietly acknowledged
Cleaning Up Eveleigh Street
White cirrus above crumbling streetAboriginal mural manifested along brick wallover a train line, locals drinking on their verandas on busted seatsgarbage piled bursting out green bins feeding a moody fire — Zero
By John Foster
In a recent front-page article in the Latrobe Valley Express, Health Services Union of Australia organiser Doug Byron revealed a number of serious outstanding concerns among his members, warning that uncertainty among staff at the
By Eva Cheng
Readers of the western press are told that the economy in China has been "booming" in recent years and the people living in increasing "prosperity" due to their new-found economic freedom. The tens of millions of workers in
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