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Singing the history of working people

RORY McLEOD is currently on his fourth visit to Australia, promoting his new album, Travelling Home. In his last visit in 1990-91, he played outside Long Bay jail at a concert protesting against the frame-up of Tim Anderson and at one of the

More people get Green Left

More people get Green Left Sales of Green Left have been rapidly increasing this year. In particular, Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party branches report enormous success in their street sales, with an increase this year of over 30%

International Women's Day Collective

NEWCASTLE — Women from the International Women's Day Collective held a vigil in the Hunter Street Mall on February 18 in response to a call by the US National Organisation of Women (NOW) for protests against the atrocities being committed

For a Hilton inquiry

For a Hilton inquiry By Ted Mack Fifteen years ago in the early hours of a Monday morning, a bomb was sitting in a council rubbish bin in front of the Hilton Hotel in Sydney. The Hilton was the venue for a Commonwealth Heads of Government

What the Liberals would do to our lives

Comment by Steve Painter Anyone in doubt as to what Australia might look like under a Hewson government need search no further than New Zealand and Britain. There is little that's new in the Liberals' Fightback package. It is mostly borrowed

Blockade delays logging

Blockade delays logging By Tyrion Perkins CANBERRA — The Wilderness Society and Deua Action Committee blockaded loggers from an area of wilderness just south of the Deua National Park in NSW in mid-February. This area in the Narooma

Toxic chemical bill launched

Toxic chemical bill launched By Pip Hinman MELBOURNE — Legislation aimed at regulating the chemical industry was launched by independent Senator Janet Powell, WA Greens Senator Christabel Chamarette and Hazardous Materials Action Group

NUS, ACTU campaign against Coalition

NUS, ACTU campaign against Coalition By Kylie Budge MELBOURNE — Mark Seymour from the band Hunters and Collectors was one of the speakers addressing the February 22 launch of a joint National Union of Students-ACTU campaign against the

'Award' for World Bank

'Award' for World Bank Friends of the Earth in the United States last month presented the World Bank with the Worst Performance of the Year award because of its 1992 energy lending. The bank, said FoE, won for "by disregarding its own

'Anti-gay, go away!'

'Anti-gay, go away!' By Joy McEntee HOBART — Anti-gay, anti-choice campaigner Fred Nile was confronted by 50 angry protesters from Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group and Women's Action Group when he arrived at the airport here on

400,000 attend Mardi Gras

ay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was an exuberant festivity, with an estimated 400,000 watching the parade, which festival organisers described as a celebration of the community's self-pride, or participating in other festival activities. The

Mapuche of Chile demand self-determination

By Jaqueline Diaz and Nancy Nuñez The indigenous Mapuche people of Chile are fighting for recognition, self-determination and land rights against a military determined to protect the profits of logging companies. Their struggle also has