Write On: Letters to the editor
Ireland
In response to those rebuttals of my letter (GLW #392) from Keara Courtney (GLW #393) and Tom McEvoy (GLW #394), their letters make not one mention of hope or peace for the people.
They both deny or
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Mardi Gras parade puts politics up front
Comment by Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has been criticised in recent years for becoming too commercialised, at the expense of the progressive politics that marked its
Newcastle holds People's Inquiry
By Geoff Payne
NEWCASTLE "Madre, they will kill us." These words have stayed with Sister Carmel Hanson, even since she returned from East Timor last year. She feels that her assurances to people there that the
East Timorese women reflect on 1999
By Vannessa Hearman
DILI — Activities to mark International Women's Day on March 8 here included performance art and a public forum on the place of women in the rebuilding process in East Timor. Held in a
Networker: Privatising internet censorship
Censorship is a great unresolved issue on the internet. Anyone old enough
to surf the net can gain access to much of the visual and written information
available across the world.
This has
By Dave Holmes
WOLLONGONG â Industrial pollution, in all its many forms and with
all its attendant consequences, has long been a fact of life in the Illawarra.
And nowhere are the effects more pronounced than in the suburbs near BHP's
Bob Brown: mandatory sentencing is not justice
Australian Greens senator BOB BROWN has been one of the fiercest critics of mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. He has introduced a private member's bill to
New anti-terrorism bill targets dissent
By Alec Smart
LONDON — Legislation allowing police increased powers of arrest and detention is being fast-tracked through the British parliament. "Anti-terrorist" laws, rehearsed and fine-tuned in
Rage against Wall Street
On a cold January day, militant rock band Rage Against the Machine took to the heart of the world financial system to film a video clip for "Sleep Now in the Fire", a track from the band's The Battle of Los Angeles. The
By Tim Gooden
GEELONG — The Victorian building industry faces a three month shutdown from March 11 if threats by the Master Builders' Association of Victoria (MBA) are made good. The threatened lockout is the employers' response to demands by
By Doug Lorimer
The following article is abridged from a talk presented to the Marxism 2000 conference in Sydney, January 5-9, 2000. Utilising Karl Marx's theory of capitalist development, V.I. Lenin concluded 85 years ago that all the features
Revolutionary sex and free love
Review by Phil Shannon
Love of Worker Bees and A Great LoveBy Alexandra KollontaiTranslated and introduced by Cathy Porter Virago, 1999378 pp., $17.95 (pb) In their crusade against socialism, conservatives love to
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