432

ALP students retain control of NUS

BY SIMON BUTLER BALLARAT — The 2000 National Union of Students national conference, held here from December 11-15, closed in tumult and chaos, with members of the National Broad Left, the Labor left and the Labor right factions hurling abuse, and

Workers' heritage at risk

BY PETER ELLETT & ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — In a move that has shocked historians, academics and researchers across Australia, the Australian National University (ANU) has slashed funding to the country's largest archive of business and labour

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News — Melbourne community TV,

INDONESIA: Urban poor youth organise as poverty soars

BY KERRYN WILLIAMS "We see the potential energy among urban poor youth, whose power has been shown many times in Indonesian history. They are brave, energetic and not afraid of new ideas and changes. We are trying to build their trust in the idea

Audacity secret to M1's success

BY PETER BOYLE Activists in every capital city in Australia have begun organising around calls for a worker-student strike and blockade of the stock exchanges on May 1. The M1 coalitions have brought together veterans of the S11 blockade

INDONESIA: Golkar and army preparing for comeback

BY MAX LANE The process of overthrowing the Suharto dictatorship did not go sufficiently deep enough to deliver a deathblow to the political ambitions of the old regime, of Suharto's former ruling party, Golkar, and the armed forces, the TNI.

Church cuts disability workers' wages

BY KAREN FLETCHER BRISBANE — A social services wing of the Uniting Church has cut the wages and conditions of its disability support workers by moving them from their current award to a lower-paid state award. The rates of pay in the state

John Lennon and the sixties

The following remarks were delivered at the dedication of Jose Villa's statue of John Lennon in Lennon Park, Havana, Cuba on December 8. It was the 20th anniversary of Lennon's assassination.

Write on: Letters to the editor

Rise Like Lions Although I was prepared to accept criticism of Rise Like Lions in a review published in GLW, I feel a response to the thoughts of Jonathon Strauss is justified. I was somewhat offended at being associated with nationalism and

Indigenous students launch national network

BY KIM BULLIMORE MELBOURNE — After much successful campaigning in New South Wales, the Indigenous Students Network has relaunched itself as a national network for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Corrie Hodson, a founding member

UNITED STATES: Racism and the stolen vote

BY MALIK MIAH George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States by a five-to-four vote of the US Supreme Court. But the die was cast long before the November 7 election. One of the dirty aspects of the 2000 presidential elections was

Can we make a revolution in Australia?

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS What do revolutions look like? Many people have a stereotyped picture of what a revolution is: a revolution is an event in which people with guns take over a city or a country. This image confuses a revolution with an