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Self-determination struggles discussed

Self-determination struggles discussed By Jo Williams MELBOURNE — A forum organised by Resistance on June 21 brought together young people from the Kurdish, East Timorese and Tamil communities to discuss their people's struggles for

Anti-EU conference in Wales

Anti-EU conference in Wales By Margaret Allan CARDIFF — Progressive and environmental organisations from all over Europe joined here to protest against the summit meeting of the leaders of the European Union on June 15 and 16. The EU's

VW washes hands of slave labour

VW washes hands of slave labour By Norm Dixon Giant German-based multinational car company Volkswagen is refusing to pay back wages and compensation to people forced to work in its factories as slaves during the second world war. Similar

Protests continue in East Timor

Protests continue in East Timor By Jon Land The people of East Timor continue to demand the right to self-determination and reject Habibie government's offer of "special status". Mobilisations of thousands of students and young people, which have

Indonesian solidarity movement rejects Hanson

Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) released the following statement on June 25. The recent success of Pauline Hanson's racist One Nation party in the Queensland elections presents new challenges for the progressive movement.

Write on: letters to the editor

Northern Ireland Doug Lorimer argues that the Northern Ireland Agreement endorsed by Sinn Féin "does nothing to end the root cause of violence in Northern Ireland". As far as I know Sinn Féin have never claimed it would. What Sinn

Resistance calls national high school walkout

Resistance calls national high school walkout By Sean Healy Following the success of the high school strike against One Nation in Victoria on June 25, the socialist youth organisation Resistance has called a national school walkout on July 24. A

Why the South African revolution stalled

Why the South African revolution stalled The ANC and the Liberation Struggle: A Critical Political Biography By Dale T. McKinley Pluto Press, 1997 175 pp., $34.95 (pb) Available at Resistance Bookshops (see page 2)  

Behind the Ethiopia-Eritrea clash

Behind the Ethiopia-Eritrea clash By James Thomson Instead of spearheading “Africa's renaissance”, two of Africa's poorest countries — Ethiopia and Eritrea — have been launching rockets, artillery shells and air strikes at each

New law allows faster sale of ACT public housing

By Lara Pullin CANBERRA — The Residential Tenancies Act 1997 has recently come into effect, but there has been very little publicity given to the changes, particularly for public housing tenants. The act specifies such things as fair process for

Who's looking after the kids?

By Theresa Moore Since the introduction by the McMahon Liberal government of the Child Care Act in 1972, government grants for child-care have become an election "carrot" used by both major parties. As a result of government funding over the last

Chaos at Centrelink

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Serious faults with a new computer system, the Newstart Common Platform (NCP), dealing with unemployment and related benefits has caused chaos at Centrelink, the federal agency responsible for delivering social security