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KOREA: Unionists seek Daewoo boss' arrest

BY MELANIE SJOBERG Representatives of the Daewoo Motor workers' struggle committee and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions have launched an international campaign to arrest Kim Woo-Choong, former chairperson of the Daewoo group of companies. They

The military solution

BY ROWAN CAHILL During September 2000, prior to the Sydney Olympic Games and the Melbourne S11 protests, the Howard government, supported by the ALP, passed the Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill, which clears the way

Conference to promote 'global action'

BY FEDERICO FUENTES MELBOURNE — The Democratic Socialist Party and Friends of the Earth have initiated a second "Global Action" conference to discuss corporate globalisation and the movement against it as a follow-up to the very successful

Why we're increasingly disaffected with capitalist 'democracy'

REVIEW BY SUE BOLAND Disaffected Democracies: what's troubling the trilateral countries?Edited by Susan J. Pharr & Roberto D. PutnamPrinceton University Press 2000362 pp, US$19.95 After declaring that "Democracy itself has triumphed as a result

Residents protest park development

BY ROBYN MARSHALL BRISBANE — Every square inch of green space is precious in the overdeveloped, inner city ghettoes — which may be why 150 people turned out on February 24 to protest the building of more townhouses on one such area of green

Inflammatory student politics

BY JAL NICHOLL & SAM KING ADELAIDE — While students may have been embracing anti-corporate activism during university orientation weeks, the official festivities have often become appalling mixtures of apoliticism and corporatisation — they

Geelong launches new Resistance Centre

BY SUE BULL GEELONG — In a corner of a building that once housed the Australian Federal Police, a new group of decidedly more radical tenants committed themselves to vastly different aims when they opened Geelong's new Resistance Centre on

Stolen generations: 'It's not the past'

BY RUTH RATCLIFFE Between Two WorldsAt the National ArchivesKelsey Crescent, Millner, DarwinTuesdays and Wednesdays 9am-noon, until May 31Group bookings at other times by appointment DARWIN — In 1939, the year Prime Minister John Howard was

Looking out: Women must 'be prepared'

“If the women's liberation movement is to succeed, it needs to be organised and led by women. There are a lot of ways that men can support and participate in women's liberation movement, but running for women's officer is not one of them.” —

Corporate globalisation destroys women's rights

BY SUE BOLAND The quality of the majority of women's lives in the next few years will largely hinge on the success or failure of the international movement against neo-liberal globalisation. Neo-liberal policies such as privatisation of

Lowitja O'Donaghue hits back

BY LOWITJA O'DONAGHUE [Desperate to "prove" that the genocidal policy of separating Aboriginal children from their parents was essentially "humane" the establishment press embarked on an outrageous beat up on February 22, based on an interview with

International Women's Day in the beef capital

For the first time that anyone can remember, an International Women's Day march and rally is being organised in the Central Queensland coastal city of Rockhampton, sometimes referred to as the "beef capital" of Australia. One of the key organisers of