Workers' alternative needed, say socialist candidates
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — "The Democratic Socialists support a city council which truly represents the working people of Brisbane", socialist candidates Graham Matthews and Coral Wynter
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Students oppose UWS merger
By Kylie Moon
SYDNEY — Student activists from the University of Western Sydney (UWS) have united under the banner of "Westy Net" to organise against a major restructuring of the university that is likely to reduce
Protest against mandatory sentencing!
MELBOURNE: "Oppose mandatory sentencing". Resistance forum. Guest speaker from Deaths in Custody Watch Committee. Thursday, March 23, 1pm. Union Laws, Melbourne University.
SYDNEY: Protest against the visit
Turkish police attack neighbourhood
Several thousand Turkish cops, including anti-riot police and special units with face masks and assault-style weapons, swept the predominantly leftist and Kurdish Gazi neighbourhood in Istanbul on March 12. Three
Review by Sean Healy
Stopping Traffik: the war against the war on drugsDirected by Jerry ThompsonSBS TVTuesday, April 4, 8.30pm. There's a point in this Canadian documentary when you realise the devastating effect of governments' relentless war
The business of universities
By Pat Brewer and Jeremy Smith
Since Labor education minister John Dawkins launched his infamous green paper on higher education in December 1987, public education has taken a battering from governments of both
Nestle targeted for GE food
By Daniel Jardine
SYDNEY — Protesters outside the offices of food giant Nestle have demanded that the company declare that its products sold in Australia have not been genetically engineered. The March 15 protest,
Help celebrate Green Left's 400th
In two weeks, Green Left Weekly will produce its 400th issue. This is a special occasion for all those people in Australia and overseas who have, during the last nine years, contributed articles, photographs,
Girt by sea
By Allen Myers
A few weeks ago, I was reading some of Frederick Engels' correspondence and came across an interesting letter. Someone was compiling a book of labour movement songs and wrote to Engels asking his advice on songs to
March 16 marks the twelfth anniversary of the massacre of Kurdish people in Halabja, in north-east Iraq. Madhi Kalka, a Kurdish journalist now living in Perth, has written an account of the events and their aftermath.
Jobs and services go, private profit grows
By Jonathan Singer
Just where does the privatisation of public services get you? Some
of the answer — cuts to jobs and services — has been splashed across
the front pages of the
Meeting condemns nuclear cycle
By Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — The Australian nuclear industry's justifications for building a new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in suburban Sydney are untrue, a public meeting here on March 15 heard. Anti-nuclear
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