670

Rob Riley, a life lived in the cause of liberation

Rob Riley, an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for JusticeBy Quentin BeresfordAboriginal Studies Press, 2006374 pages, $39.95 REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY Rob Riley was a major leader of Aboriginal Australia whose influence was felt from the streets of Perth,

Take a stand in the class war, urges ETU leader

Sue Bolton Dick Williams, the Queensland state secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), believes the Howard government "is waging a class war", and that unionists are prepared to fight as long as union leaderships are prepared to lead.

MONTENEGRO: Majority vote for independence

Michael Karadjis Montenegrins voted for independence for their tiny republic in a referendum on May 21, in a move that essentially formalised an already existing situation. Following the collapse of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia

David Hicks — still detained

Dale Mills The Australian government is coming under increasing domestic and international pressure to intervene in the imprisonment of David Hicks at the United States' military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks has now been held there

Amber Oswald: 'You can win'

I'm a 16-year-old high-school student who commenced casual work on March 15th. My employer was Pulp Juice Bars Operations Pty Ltd. I was told that I would be paid $9.52 per hour on weekdays and $14.28 on Sundays, but that all changed after the

Imperial hypocrisy and manipulation in East Timor crisis

Peter Boyle Commenting on the Australian troop deployment to East Timor on May 31, the Australian's Paul Kelly said, "this intervention is both military and political. Its primary purpose was to respond to East Timor's security crisis ... But this

MALAYSIA: PSM holds eighth congress

The Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) held its eighth congress in late May. Over the past period, the party has been involved in campaigns against the privatisation of health care, against the goods and services tax and against the fuel price hike,

SUDAN: Washington imposes flawed 'peace' deal

Norm Dixon In the early hours of May 5, the most militarily significant Darfur rebel group — a faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Minni Minnawi — reluctantly accepted a flawed "peace" agreement with Sudan's authoritarian

PALESTINE: Talking to Hamas

Alastair Crooke Almost no-one believes that putting Palestinians on a "diet" will make them more moderate or help to restart a political process with Israel. The diet — a term coined by forumer Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's chief of staff, Dov

All out against Work Choices on June 28!

Sue Bolton After much debate within the trade union movement, the ACTU-endorsed June 28 national day of protest against the Howard government's industrial relations laws has finally spread nationwide. After the success of last year's two national

IRAQ: Resistance attacks on British troops escalating

The British military announced on May 29 that two of its soldiers had died in a roadside bomb attack in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, bringing the total number of British military fatalities in May to nine. "The deaths are a clear sign that rebel

Write On: Letters to the Editor

Local issues While GLW does an excellent job concerning issues of war and peace and the Work Choices legislation, there are essential local issues that merit additional attention. I am trying to obtain a housing commission flat in Canterbury and