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Tropical diseases threaten New York

By Lucy Chubb As New York City health officials struggle to curb the spread of encephalitis among its citizens, Physicians for Social Responsibility warned on September 21 that outbreaks of this and other mosquito-borne diseases will be on the rise

Another NTEU victory

By Robyn Marshall BRISBANE — The National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) won an important victory at the University of Queensland on October 28. The academic, research and teaching staff voted decisively (62.5%) against UQ management's

Rage Against the Machine: 'Take today what tomorrow never brings'

'Take today what tomorrow never brings' Review by Leigh Hughes The Battle of Los AngelesRage Against the MachineEpic Records through Sony After a long absence, Rage Against the Machine has blasted back onto the political music scene with its

Students occupy to defend education

By Kylie Moon BANKSTOWN — On October 27, the students association at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) Macarthur Bankstown campus organised a rally as part of a campaign around a student log of claims. A rally of 300 students on October 20

Left activists discuss the green movement

Left activists discuss the green movement By Sarah Peart and Ben Courtice MELBOURNE — On October 27, Green Left Weekly hosted another lively debate as part of its Politics in the Pub series in Comrades Bar. More than 40 people gathered to hear

Black 47: not your usual diddly diddly dee

Black 47: not your usual diddly diddly dee Live in New York CityBlack 47Gadfly RecordsE-mail <gadfly1@aol.com> for details or order from <http://www.black47.com> Review by Bill Nevins 1847 was the year of starvation that drove

Queen Cheryl's Song

Queen Cheryl's Song By Peter Hicksand Geoff Francis Seems the dummy-spitting season in the ALP starts around January each year — and ends in December. Reithy's best mate has gone and done it again. We wish her every success in her new post, but

Loose cannons

Back from the dead "You never kill the inflation dragon, but it's subdued at the moment." — Treasurer Peter Costello, who three months ago declared the "dragon" dead. And their wallets "In telling these [bank] stories, Lawsie will invite

Liberal bigotry

SYDNEY — Student activists organised a protest here on October 30 when they got wind of the following policy motion being put to a vote at a Liberal Party convention at the University of New South Wales: "That the Liberal Party calls upon both the

Write on: letters to the editor

Slavery George Bernard Shaw is famous for saying that under socialism no-one would be allowed to be poor. Guild socialist G.D.H. Cole, when asked what was the greatest evil, responded: not poverty, but slavery. It is tempting to remark that the

The Russian Revolution and V.I. Lenin

Kathy Newnam and Marina Carman November 7 is the anniversary of the victory of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin combined practical leadership of that revolution with important theoretical contributions to socialists'

Yeltsin forever

By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — Early in September, the main theme of political forecasts in Russia was the supposedly imminent resignation of President Boris Yeltsin. Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of Yeltsin, however, regarded all this