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Edward Said remembered

BY JENNY LONG SYDNEY — Around 120 people gathered at the Metcalf Auditorium, in the NSW State Library, on October 17 for a memorial meeting for the highly influential Palestinian intellectual and activist Edward Said. Said died in the US on

PSA needs to challenge managers' 'right' to manage

BY LEON PARISSI SYDNEY — The fight to save 1000 NSW public service education support jobs in the schools and TAFE colleges is entering a critical phase. The state Labor government's deadline for filling the new organisational structures is early

What price for a few k's of track?

BY GEOFF PAYNE NEWCASTLE — The Lower Hunter Transport Working Group (LHTWG), set up by the NSW Labor government with wide terms of reference, issued its first report on September 19. There were no surprises. Some options, like replacing the heavy

Peace Frontier

It's becoming clear, why you engineeredOur involvement in their war.For our "mutual aid", and for your "free trade"It was worth their dying for.But your quest for oil, and to carve the spoils,Of their reconstructed ruins,Cannot pay the price, for so

BOLIVIA: Massacres spark mass uprising

BY FORREST HYLTON LA PAZ, Oct. 13 — After the October 12 massacre in El Alto, an Aymara city of 800,000 on the upper edge of Bolivia's capital, La Paz, which left at least 25 dead and 100 injured, millions of Bolivians have concluded that

John Pilger: How press barons, governments silence dissent

BY JOHN PILGER Australian novelist Richard Flanagan was recently asked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to read a favourite piece of fiction on national radio and explain his reasons for the choice. "I was unsure what fiction to

Sydney Social Forum features international activists

BY IGGY KIM SYDNEY — The Sydney Social Forum (SSF) will be held at the University of Technology, Sydney on October 24-26. It will feature three international keynote speakers: Ariel Guides from the Philippines Solidarity of Philippines Workers

LaTrobe left wins landslide victory

BY JAMES CRAFTI MELBOURNE — The Action ticket has won the October 6-10 La Trobe University Student Representative Council (SRC) election in a landslide victory. The ticket consisted of independent activists, members of the socialist youth

'The cops lost their cool'

These photographs of the October 20, 1966, protest against US President Lyndon Johnson were taken by Perry Brown, who is now a member of the Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance in Newcastle. He described the scene to

UNITED STATES: Bush imperils Third World women's lives

BY TRISH REIMERS In January 2001, US President George Bush reinstated the "global gag" rule on international family planning assistance that the US administration of Ronald Reagan had announced at the UN-sponsored Second International Conference on

The battle for a canal-free Coogee

BY ANDREW SULLIVAN PERTH — Western Australia has had more than its fair share of controversial coastal development issues over the last decade. The national spotlight has mostly focused on a proposal to build a resort and marina at Maud's

MALAYSIA: A vicious dose of injustice for Irene Fernandez

BY LYNETTE DUMBLE The 12-month prison sentence imposed on human rights activist Irene Fernandez, handed down on October 16 by magistrate Juliana Mohamed, was a shameful day for the justice system in Malaysia. Charged with "maliciously publishing