Habibie regime reneging on East Timor
MAX LANE is the national coordinator of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor. He spoke to Green Left Weekly about recent events in those countries. Question: Is the Habibie regime looking
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By Mark Abberton
MELBOURNE — The national day of action against voluntary student unionism, which was to be held on May 5, has been moved to May 19. The decision was made by the National Union of Students (NUS) national education committee phone
Why NATO won't free Kosova
With half the Kosovar population forced to flee their homeland, it is necessary for all progressive people to take a clear position against the war in the Balkans.
To make a stand against this war of terror, it is
International news briefs
Tiananmen protests 1976 and 1989
HONG KONG — About two dozen activists held a protest march on April 5 to commemorate the heroic demonstration by tens of thousands of Chinese in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 23 years ago
Workers take protest to five-star hotel
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — A combined delegates rally involving all construction unions is scheduled later this month to discuss the growing problem of non-union labour in the industry. More than
Talking Up: Young Women's Take On FeminismEdited by Rosamund Else-Mitchelland Naomi FlutterSpinifex Press1998, 239 pp. By Zanny Begg
Talking up: Young Women's Take on Feminism is a collection of essays by young Australian feminists. It was produced
New film brings to life Indonesian struggle
By Max Lane
On April 23 and 24, a new documentary film is being premiered in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Entitled Indonesia in Revolt — Democracy or Death!, it depicts the student-led popular
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In cities and towns throughout Russia, repressive official policies have helped create a huge pool of narcotics users infected with the HIV virus. The infection is now poised to spread swiftly among young people who are
By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — "Socialism into the New Millennium" is to be the title of a conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance here over the ANZAC Day long weekend. "The conference will explore a wide range of
McSux: taking on the corporate giant
By Huw Lockwood and Kim Bullimore
British activists Helen Steel and David Morris, who have been fighting the fast food giant McDonald's since they were sued for libel for producing the "What's wrong with
Free double passes to Vince Jones' Sydney shows
Five lucky Green Left Weekly readers and their friends will catch Australia's leading jazz vocalist/trumpet player Vince Jones and his band free of charge. Vince will be playing at the Basement,
...Looking out: Good advice
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Friendship is a ... commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." — Oliver Goldsmith The Irish author's words above say a lot to us all, but to some,
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