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NT stolen generation in court

NT stolen generation in court By Rebecca Meckelburg DARWIN — On March 1, 1999, Cubillo and Gunner v the Commonwealth opened in the Federal Court in Darwin. These test cases represent the interests of some 700 stolen generation people in the

Cabaret Resist! to focus on women

Cabaret Resist! to focus on women By Dave Riley BRISBANE — With poetry, monologues, percussion, songs and boppy melodies from the band Delta Skelter, the first Cabaret Resist! at the Resistance Centre on February 26 was an up-beat night

Get Active! Stop Jabiluka! Stop uranium mining!

The campaign to stop uranium mining has a long and proud history in Australia. During the 1970s and '80s, thousands of people took to the streets to campaign against Australia's involvement in the nuclear cycle. In the early 1980s more than 300,000

Community Legal Centres resist restructuring

Community Legal Centres resist restructuring By Graham Matthews BRISBANE — On March 8, about 50 community legal centre (CLC) workers, management committee members and supporters attended a public meeting to hear an explanation of the federal

Yugoslavia and history

Yugoslavia and history By Michael Karadjis Jerome Fitzgerald ("Write on", GLW #348) correctly points to the importance of history and the need to get our facts right. Unfortunately, he repeats some common views on the conflicts in Yugoslavia

Trotsky's theory of Permanent revolution: New relevance in a long debate

New relevance in a long debate Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Leninist CritiqueBy Doug LorimerResistance Books, 1998. 80pp. $6.95 Review by John Nebauer After Lenin, Leon Trotsky was the foremost leader of the Russian Revolution. His

Remodernising Russia: the role of the left

Remodernising Russia: the role of the left BORIS KAGARLITSKY interviews ANATOLY BARANOV. A left journalist, Baranov in 1996 came under attack from the authorities in the Moscow municipality, after an article he had written for the newspaper Pravda

Loose cannons

Now you know "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become

Looking out: Incommunicado

Incommunicado By Brandon Astor Jones "We do not have the personnel to provide checks for amounts which should be covered within the inmate's 20 stamp/week purchase authorization." — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment D. Glenn Suggs On

High school rights

By Ryan Liddell SYDNEY — The National Children's and Youth Law Centre has released a booklet on high school rights. The kit, Know Your Rights at School, was funded by the Law Foundation of NSW and covers students' rights in 10 different areas,

Feminists march for IWD

After having been postponed due to rain a week earlier, the International Women's Day march went ahead in Adelaide on March 13, reports Jo Ellis. Three hundred women and men rallied in support of the march's main demand, that anti-abortion laws be

Marxist feminism

Marxist feminism By Kathy Newnam "The general level of emancipation of a society is indicated by the level of emancipation of its women." This statement, drawn from the studies of Marx and his close collaborator, Engels, holds as true today as