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Reclaim the Night collective rejects exclusion Virginia Brown MELBOURNE — On October 8, the Reclaim the Night collective here passed a motion to reject a bid by some student movement activists (mainly from Left Alliance) to exclude men from
By Eva Cheng Despite a chain of summit meetings since early October among the world's most powerful countries, they remain far from a solution to the spreading economic crisis which, exploding first in July last year in Asia, is threatening to
Nepali student movement holds conference By Sean Healy KATHMANDU, NEPAL — The All Nepal National Free Student Union (ANNFSU), Nepal's largest student organisation and one of the world's largest left student organisations, held its 14th national
20th anniversary of Reclaim the Night By Michele Wickham SYDNEY — The Reclaim the Night organising collective here will mark its 20th anniversary on October 30 with a march and rally on the theme "Hands off — our bodies are ours". With these
By Allen Myers Despite the Coalition having received only a minority of votes in the federal election, John Howard is claiming that winning a majority of seats in the House of Representatives gives him a "mandate" to introduce a GST. Howard's claim
Spit the dummy, why don't ya Like many of my comrades among the Greenly Left masses, I am prone to a wee bit of cynicism every now and then. There's nothing wrong with that. While ideals and the passion they engender may claim a fair share of
Jabiluka campaign moves to the cities By Pip Hinman The re-election of the Howard government hasn't fazed activists campaigning to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine. Plans to stop Energy Resources of Australia's (ERA) attempt to mine uranium in
By Neville Spencer Fernando Henrique Cardoso, leader of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), was elected for a second term as Brazil's president on October 4. With Brazil's economy on the brink of a collapse similar to those
Write on: Letters to the editor Head On I refer to the review of the film Head On ("Ethnicity, class and sexuality collide head on", GLW September 30) by Conrad Barnett and Natalie Wood: "Ari (Alex Dimitriades) takes us on a 24-hour bender and
Secondary students protest prison spending SAN LEANDRO, California — On October 2, thousands of high school students in San Leandro left their classrooms to protest against too much state spending on prisons and too little on schools.
Love, booze and social justice Upstairs @ Lamberti'sThe Hooligans Review by Barry Healy The Irish folk tradition is a broad church. It includes everything from the respectable, squeaky-clean Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem through to the
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