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Darwin students support their union

Marie Martinez, Darwin Opposition is growing to attempts to crush the Charles Darwin University Students' Union. On September 29, 150 students and staff demonstrated in defence of the CDUSU and against the recently announced slashing of almost 400

Enron: Asking how, not necessarily why

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomWritten and directed by Alex GibneyDendy Cinemas from October 13 REVIEW BY LACHLAN MALLOCH "Burn baby, burn!" These malicious, greedy words of an Enron trader, referring to a bushfire threatening power lines

VENEZUELA: Justice for indigenous people 'for the first time'

Lara Pullin On October 12, most countries in Latin America will celebrate Dia de la Raza, or Colombus Day, which in 1492 marked the beginning of the Spanish empire's destruction of millions of years of the continent's indigenous history in just a

UNITED STATES: Voice of the anti-war majority takes to the streets

Elizabeth Schulte& Eric Ruder, Chicago From all 50 states and all walks of life, they poured into the US capital on September 24. On buses and trains and planes, in cars and vans, they made their way to Washington, DC, to take a stand against the

A call for real change

Sarah Stephen, Sydney The Howard government's decision some months back to release families and many asylum seekers from long-term detention represented a significant win for the refugee-rights movement. But the harsh refugee policy remains, and

When terrorism outlaws democracy

Wanda Fish On September 27, Australian democracy surrendered to terrorism. On that day, a coalition of willing federal and state leaders agreed to anti-terrorism legislation that will enable police persecution of the Muslim community and threaten

War, occupation and the fight for workers' rights

Jim McIlroy, Brisbane "No-one in Iraq supports the US invasion; no-one supports the occupation; we all want the invasion to end", Farouk Ismaal, international relations officer of the General Union of Oil Employees (Iraq), told 100 people in the

Laws for insecurity

Dale Mills "These proposals will curtail our civil liberties dramatically, but the government has not put forward any evidence that these laws will help combat terrorism", according to Agnes Chong, who contributed to a detailed report challenging

Yellowcake fever running high in NT

Jon Lamb, Darwin Record world prices for uranium and the federal government's green light for new uranium mines has spurred exploration for uranium deposits across the Northern Territory. Since March, the number of companies searching for viable

UNITED STATES: Cuba slams US decision to harbor terrorist Posada

Under the headline "Infamous Judicial Decision: Posada under the Empire's Protection", the Cuban daily Granma reported on September 28 that US immigration judge William Abbott chose not to deport Cuban-born terrorist Posada Carriles, either to

INDONESIA: How the West backed the massacre of a million people

Clinton Fernandes The destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), 40 years ago following the seizure of power by pro-US military officers headed by General Suharto was a decisive event in the history of South-East Asia in the second half

On the box

Cuban Missile Crisis Declassified — Tells the story of the 13 days in which the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, beginning on October 14, 1962. SBS, Saturday, October 15, 7.30pm. Message Stick: Terry Janke — Stories presented from the