By Helen Basili
Mounting controversy over immigration policies and native title in the last few years have left many people asking if there has been a corresponding increase in acts of racism. There are numerous barriers to measuring whether racism
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Workers rally for award conditions
By Michael Bull
MELBOURNE — On September 16, more than 1000 workers rallied outside the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to protest the challenge by industrial relations minister Peter Reith to
Health — a universal right
By Pip Hinman
I was struck by a series of letters in the Sydney Morning Herald recently about the virtues or otherwise of sending new mothers home immediately after giving birth. Why should they be taking up
TweedleKim and TweedleJohnny
By Geoff Francis & Peter Hicks
You can choose anybody you want — as long as it's Johnny or Kim.You can have any prime minister you want — as long as it's him or him.Politics Australian style is a very
Inside CowleyBy Alan ThornettPorcupine Press, London, 1998408pp (pb), £17.45 Review by James Vassilopoulos
Inside Cowley contains a thousand lessons for trade union militants. It explains how British PM Margaret Thatcher got away with taming
By Karen Fredericks
BRISBANE — The Peter Beattie Labor state government on September 15 announced a budget which funds the biggest ever expansion of prisons in Australia's history. The budget allocation for corrective services capital expansion
More arrests at Jabiluka
The Jabiluka campaign continues to intensify as 12 people were arrested on September 19 at the proposed uranium mine site in Kakadu National Park. Ten people locked themselves to a metal sculpture of a frill-necked lizard
By Russell Pickering
CANBERRA — The ACT Trades and Labor Council completed its Politics in the Pub seminars on September 16 with a discussion about "globalisation" and its impact on working people. More than 80 people heard Doug Cameron, national
Anti-racism protesters take to the suburbs again
By Lachlan Malloch
SYDNEY — On September 19, as noon drew near on a glorious spring day in inner-city Glebe, more than 100 anti-racist protesters gathered to take their message to the community.
By Sean Healy
MIRPUR, Azad Kashmir — Kashmir is a nation in torment — partitioned, brutally repressed, its people the victims of a vicious proxy war between India and Pakistan. The Kashmiri people want an independent, free Kashmir, beholden to
Socialists, Democrats debate youth policy
WENDY ROBERTSON and PAUL BENEDEK spoke to NATASHA STOTT DESPOJA, deputy leader of the Australian Democrats, and MARINA CARMAN, the Democratic Socialists' NSW Senate candidate and a leader of the socialist
Why socialism is back on the agenda
By Pip Hinman "The United Nations annual Human Development Report confirms, yet again, that capitalism has failed the majority of the world's people", said Max Lane, the foreign affairs spokesperson for the
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