Tom Fawthrop
PHNOM PENH — Kim Bophana is bitter about the failure of US plans to capture Pol Pot and deliver him to an international tribunal. Bophana lost 38 relatives during the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge rule. "The US had the power to arrest Pol Pot
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Pete Seeger: fighting back with music
By Tom Bridges
I had a beautiful long-necked banjo, the 'Pete Seeger' model ...
and I played it constantly. I had a sweetheart too, who gave me a Pete
Seeger album for my birthday ... At last
By Gemma Doherty
SYDNEY — In recent weeks in NSW, both major political parties have been trying to outdo each other in statements to the media about the "law and order" issue. Premier Bob Carr's plan, announced last month, to help police tackle
Comment by Helen Jarvis
SYDNEY — More than 100 people, mainly Indonesians, packed into Burwood Community Centre on May 9 to hear Indonesian sociologist Arief Budiman speak on the topic "Can Suharto survive democratisation?" in a meeting organised
A tale in two cities
Reviews by Conrad Barrett
Two films dealing with working-class alienation and its symptoms have just been released in major cinemas. One set in London, the other in suburban Australia, both deal with drugs, crime and violence
Nationalise the wharves!
By Dick Nichols
Imagine that we have just woken up and all of Peter Reith's dreams
about waterfront reform have come true. How much do we average Australians
stand to gain from it all?
By Kathy Pinkusand Kamala Emanuel
HOBART — The Tasmanian University administration has announced plans to "amalgamate" two libraries on the Sandy Bay campus during mid-semester break. The Biomed Library will be closed and materials transferred to
Australian socialists demand: 'End support for Indonesian dictatorship!'
The following is abridged from a statement issued on May 16 by the Democratic
Socialist Party.
1. The Suharto regime did imperialism's dirty work for
The rule of law
By Allen Myers
"We will obey the law. Will the MUA obey the law by withdrawing its pickets from the docks in Sydney and Melbourne?" Words to this effect were part of the standard response of Patrick Stevedores and its partners in
Compelling outcasts
The ThiefDirected by Pavel ChukhraiWinner of the Venice Film FestivalShowing at Dendy and Cremorne cinemas from May 21 Review by Francesca Davis
Set in 1952 and seen through the eyes of six-year-old Sanya, The Thief is a
The following statement was issued from Jakarta by the national leadership committee of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) on May 14. It was translated for Green Left Weekly by James Balowski. Today, students and other people rose up in a mass
By Arun Pradhan
If we are to believe self-proclaimed "technology gurus", we have entered a realm where people swim in a sea of free information, interactive entertainment that is better than life and immediate communication with anyone, anywhere at
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