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New England students occupy 'underhanded' university BY ANDREW DEVENISH-MEARES ARMIDALE — Students occupied the administration building at the University of New England (UNE) here on May 18 to protest against cuts to subjects and services, and
Networker: The bubble is still to burst The bubble is still to burst It's that time of year again, when all the stupendously overpriced internet-related stock prices crash. For the second year in a row, a huge rise in high technology share prices
BY SUE BOLAND "If the profitable third of our farmers were able to represent the industry and set the agenda for debate we would hear a rural voice with constructive ideas ... Instead, the debate is driven by the unprofitable rump ... who yearn for
HANOI — Pham Van Dong, one of Vietnam's most prominent revolutionary leaders, died on April 29 at the age of 94. Born in the central province of Quang Ngai, he began his revolutionary career in 1924 at the age of 18. Two years later he joined the
BRITAIN: London Socialist Alliance campaign an 'astounding success' Summarised below are two reports by the LONDON SOCIALIST ALLIANCE (LSA) central office which assess the alliance's performance in the May 4 election for the newly created Greater
Be part of the solution The following speech was presented by JOHN PERCY to the May Day celebration jointly organised by the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and the Worker Communist Party of Iraq at Granville Town Hall, Sydney, on May
REVITRIYOSO HUSODO and SRI WAHYUNINGSIH of the People's Cultural Network (JAKER) in Indonesia spoke to Green Left Weekly's JULIA PERKINS during her recent visit there.   JAKER is sustained by a belief in socialist realist art and
Queensland teachers to strike BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Teachers at Sarina High School in north Queensland are to defy the state Industrial Relations Commission and strike for 24 hours on May 23, and other schools will hold stop-work meetings to
Dismantling Abstudy: the Coalition's 'practical reconciliation' BY KIM BULLIMORE AND SUE GREEN For almost 30 years, Abstudy has been one of the key components of ensuring increased educational opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
BY SEAN HEALY Opponents of food irradiation will return to the Queensland Planning and Environment Court on June 5 seeking to block an application to allow medical and biotechnology company Steritech to build a nuclear irradiation plant in
BY NOAM CHOMSKY The simplest answer to the argument that countries who borrowed from the World Bank/International Monetary Fund have no right to ask for debt forgiveness is that the presupposition is false, so the argument is vacuous. For example,
BY JOSEPH KIM MELBOURNE — Riding a tram in Bourke Street recently, I caught sight of a middle-aged man in an expensive suit with his chin resting upon his chest, his head intermittently jerking to "attention" as his body instinctively prevented