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Brisbane Resistance Centre launched

Brisbane Resistance Centre launched BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS BRISBANE — The room swayed to the melodies of the Cuban Revolution while celebrants feasted on Cuban food at the launch of the new Resistance Centre here on May 27. Forty people answered

Tales of workplace violence

Tales of workplace violence A Kind of Violence - Australian workers and workplaces By Yossi Berger The Vulgar Press, 1999 Review by Ben Courtice Yossi Berger has written a detailed account of health and safety conditions

Student occupation comes out fighting

BY GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — After nine days of continual protest against planned cuts to courses and staff numbers, students and staff ended their occupation of Murdoch University's Senate building on May 31. Occupiers condemned vice-chancellor

SOUTH AFRICA: Costa Gazi — ANC blocks treatment for HIV patients

SOUTH AFRICA: ANC blocks treatment for HIV patients EAST LONDON, Eastern Cape province — If anyone had any doubt that the era of settlerism and elitism was not over in South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki's antics around the issue of HIV/AIDS

PAKISTAN: Labour movement leader arrested

LAHORE, Pakistan — On May 26, Rawalpindi police arrested well-known railway worker leader and president of Labour Unity Rawalpindi, Bashir Botter. The police are searching for seven other railway workers, and for the Labour Party Pakistan's (LPP)

Looking Out: Unlawful searches

Looking out: Unlawful searches "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by

and ain't i a woman?: Lesbians, conception and the law

Lesbians, conception and the law BY JO ELLIS The last decade has been characterised as the "lesbian baby boom". Famous lesbians Melissa Etheridge and her partner Julie Cypher have declined to give information about how their baby was

Labor rejects maternity leave demands

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE & KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — Tasmania's Labor premier Jim Bacon has rejected calls for state public servants to have access to three months' paid maternity leave. The calls came after state education minister Paula Wriedt's

CHILE: Pinochet loses immunity

Pinochet loses immunity In an extraordinary session of Chile's Court of Appeals on May 23, the court voted 13 to nine to strip former dictator General Augusto Pinochet of the immunity he enjoys as a senator. The ruling will allow Juan Guzman, the

WA minister claims Aboriginal people safer in jail

WA minister claims Aboriginal people safer in jail BY ROBERTO JORQUERA PERTH — The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia has called for the immediate resignation of the state's Aboriginal affairs minister, Kim Hames, after he told a

Meeting debates abortion reform

BY JULIA HALDANE BRISBANE — The Brisbane Feminist Collective held its first public meeting here on May 30, attended by 50 people. The topic of discussion was women and reproductive rights. The collective grew out of the International Women's

Networker: What's in a name?

Networker: What's in a name? What's in a name? BY GREG HARRIS ASP is a term you hear around the information technology, or "IT", circuits these days. But what does it stand for? First, it stands for "application service provider". Think of the