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Life of Riley: And I should know

And I should know Take your everyday unemployed person. Now there's a sight! Round shouldered, pig ignorant, doesn't know chalk from cheese. And surly! You wouldn't believe how surly! And they wonder why they can't get a job. According to them,

Hobart rally backs republic

Hobart rally backs republic By Nikki Ulasowskiand Tony Iltis HOBART — Later this year a referendum will be held on whether Australia should become a republic. On January 26, a pro-republic rally held at the state Parliament House Lawns

Thousands mark Invasion Day

Thousands mark Invasion Day The capitalist establishment and mass media organised spectaculars throughout the country on January 26 to celebrate the uninvited arrival of a bunch of scruffy British naval officers, prison guards and convicts at

Solidarity rally planned for locked-out workers

Solidarity rally planned for locked-out workers By Chris Slee MELBOURNE The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) is planning a stop-work rally of its Victorian members to express solidarity with workers at the Australian Dyeing Company

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution

By Zanny Begg The Alternative Life Style Organisation's choice of theme for the January 23 gay and lesbian dance party in Melbourne — "Red Raw" — has been controversial. Red Raw was billed as a "revolutionary dance party", and the publicity

Looking out: Academic freedom

Academic freedom By Brandon Astor Jones "Responsible journalism is journalism responsible in the last analysis to the editor's own conviction of what, whether interesting or only important, is in the public interest." — Walter Lippmann,

A history of contraception

A history of contraception By Sarah Cleary Taking Precautions: the story of contraceptionA touring exhibition from the Powerhouse Museum, SydneyShowing at the Western Australian Museum until March 1. For thousands of years, women around the world

Love on the barricades

The Love GermBy Jill NevilleVerso, 1998 (first published 1969)149 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon "A fantastic, earth-shattering, dynamic, brilliant, beautiful, touching, unbelievably sensitive, outasight book written by my sister." So

And Ain't I a Women: Women of East Timor

Women of East Timor "In 20 years, an untold number of women went through the horror in the Indonesian prisons all over East Timor. Many of us died of starvation and exhaustion in the mountains; others died, cremated by the napalm bombs; others were

1999 International Women's Day marches

Wollongong Sat, March 13 Meet 11am at Lowden Square, march to Crown St Mall Phone Angela 4226 2010 Brisbane Sat, March 6 Meet 11am at King George Square, march at 12 noon Phone Ruth 3254 0565 Adelaide Sat March 6 Meet 11.30am at

German left debates its orientation to social democracy

By Eva Cheng COLOGNE — The Social Democratic Party's (SPD) September victory, coming to government in alliance with the Greens, ended 16 years of rule of the conservative Christian Democratic Party and raised hopes that it might turn its back on

WA protests against clear-felling

WA protests against clear-felling By Iggy Kim PERTH — On January 24, 100 people gathered in an area of old-growth forest in the south of Western Australia to protest against clear-felling. Known as the Wattle Forest, the area lies adjacent to