By John Pilger
When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima after Japan had all but surrendered, the front page of the Daily Express said: "This is a warning to the world". As US missiles and bombs attack a sovereign European state,
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Eight young people — university and high school students and young workers — recently returned from a 10-day tour across Indonesia. They saw first-hand the unfolding struggle for democracy. JO WILLIAMS and BRONWYN JENNINGS recount the experience.
By the Access News team
MELBOURNE — Melbourne's only community controlled TV station is experiencing a financial crisis that could result in the closure of the station forever. Independent TV, free from government or corporate influence, is rare
East Timor and trade union solidarity
Workers and their unions are starting to discuss how they can take action in solidarity with the East Timorese nation's fight to decide its own future.
Aircraft maintenance workers' delegates at the Qantas
By Sue Boland
The fact that the current goods and services tax (GST) debate is posed as a choice between increasing compensation or exempting food demonstrates that all parties to the debate already know that the GST is intrinsically unfair. For
By Louis Proyect
Small SoldiersDirected by Joe DanteDreamworks SKGAvailable from most video shops Stephen Spielberg was involved with one solid antiwar film in 1998. That film was Dreamworks' Small Soldiers, not the flag-waving Saving Private Ryan.
By Chris Latham
The movement that developed last year in Indonesia, culminating in big upsurges in May and November, was based on concerns arising out of economic insecurity, and growing anger and rejection of the undemocratic and repressive
Sydney artist condemns 'Dr John'
SYDNEY — Pictured is a lino-cut relief by Sydney artist Stephen Corry of "Dr" John Howard coming to the aid of the Australian poor (represented as a bed-ridden skull propped up by a pillow of bones). Dr John has a
At the Coalface: The human face of coalminers and their communities: An oral history of the early daysEdited by Fred Moore, Ray Harrison and Paddy GormanPublished by the mining and energy division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy
By Nick Everett
On April 27, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Centrelink section council voted to recommend Centrelink's proposals for a new industrial agreement to union members. The vigorous debate that preceded the vote, and the 10
By Sean Healy
Urgent action is needed in solidarity with the people of Indonesia and East Timor. In East Timor right now, the Indonesian military is arming and training militia gangs in an attempt to terrorise the population into submission.
Indian priest calls for peace in Sri Lanka
By Nadeem Ansari
CANBERRA — The Reverend Jegath Gaspar Raj told a public meeting here on April 28 that war in Sri Lanka has brought misery to the Tamil people and has polarised the Tamil and Sinhalese
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