Waco: The Rules of EngagementDirected by William GazeckiFifth Estate Productions Review by Arun Pradhan
"Do I really want to spend the next two hours watching a film about mad, Christian fundamentalist Americans?" was the question going through my
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Activists storm forestry office
By Nick Fredman
LISMORE — Seventy activists from the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) occupied the Casino office of State Forests on October 20 to highlight the Carr Labor government's failure to put forward an
Dorney misses the forest and the trees
The Sandline Affair: Politics and mercenaries and the Bougainville crisisBy Sean DorneySydney: ABC Books, 1998352 pp., $24.95 Review by Max Watts
Since the Bougainville "crisis", (I'd call it the
International day of action against Jabiluka mine
International day of action against Jabiluka mine
Protests against the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine took place in Madrid, Paris, Cologne, Bonn and Osaka on October 20. In Madrid, representatives
'Vote for a steelworker, not a politician!'
NEWCASTLE — Green Left Weekly's STEVE O'BRIEN interviewed GEOFF PAYNE, Democratic Socialist candidate for the federal seat of Newcastle, between his shifts at the BHP steelworks. The vote in the seat
Year of hope
1968: Marching in the StreetsBy Tariq Ali and Susan WatkinsBloomsbury Press, 1998. 224 pp., $49.95 Review by John Nebauer
"'Order reigns in Warsaw!' 'Order reigns in Paris!' 'Order reigns in Berlin!' This is how the reports of the
By David Bacon
BERKELEY, California — There is an immigration crisis in the United States. But it is not caused by uncontrolled borders or too many immigrants, the stereotyped images used to inflame anti-immigrant hysteria. It is the return of
Resistance seminar on fighting racism
By Danny Fairfax
SYDNEY — Forty people, including a number of new faces, attended an anti-racism seminar held by Resistance on Saturday, October 10. The event sought to get to the heart of racism and how to
How Can It Be?
How can it be that we have come to this?Australia must be a land of foolish masochistsOnce you might overlook, but someone tell me now,Did we really put up our hands for more of Johnny Howard?
Civilisation will hold us in
The fall of Suharto in May unleashed an unprecedented wave of political discussion and activity in East Timor. Across the island, meetings are being organised to discuss East Timor's future as an independent entity, to debate the proposal of
Workers First contests organiser elections
By Chris Spindler
The Workers First team, which won the leadership of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union earlier this year, is standing candidates for seven organiser
Beginning of wisdom
"Now it seems we were just pawns." — Andrew McKellar, recruited as a wharfie for the Patrick union-busting operation but dumped when Patrick settled with the MUA. McKellar and another scab are suing Patrick and industrial
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