Trouble in the LandBlack 47Shanachie records Review by Bill Nevins
Loss and disappointment can sour the heart, but Irish bard Yeats built visionary poetry out of the failure of the 1916 Easter rebellion: a "terrible beauty" was born. Trouble in the
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'Racist' anti-racists?
At the recent NSW state Broad Left meeting in Newcastle, in discussion around protests and campaigns against the Howard government's Border Protection Act, it was suggested that, in order to keep within the "principle" of
By Troy Saxby
In response to the federal government's attempts to privatise higher education, Resistance has proposed that a national day of action be called for March 29 to demand "Free education, not privatisation!" and "Reverse education funding
Another wetland threatened
By Marg Perrott
WOLLONGONG — The re-opening of the Port Kembla copper smelter continues to cause hardship to Wollongong residents. On January 23, 100 residents of Primbee, a lakeside suburb five kilometres from the
According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, in 1998 there were 21 million people "of concern" — those seeking or already granted refugee status.
Amnesty International estimates that a new refugee is created every 21 seconds. One
International news briefs
Iranian oil workers' struggle
On January 17, 2000 workers from the maintenance section of the Abadan oil refinery in Iran went on strike to oppose a plan to "restructure" the oil industry which could lead to 40,000 of
The Basque Country after the cease-fire
By G. Buster
On January 21, 53 days after the armed, pro-independence Basque group ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasura — Basque Homeland and Freedom) announced it was ending its unilateral cease-fire, a bomb was
Gambling health: don't bet on it
By Kerry Ridgway
"Governments are addicted to gambling", says Michelle Gunner, a PhD student from the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. Once a nurse therapist treating all manner of addictions, Gunner
By Jim Green
Pangea Resources, the company that wants to dump 75,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste in Australia, is spreading its wings. A new company, Pangea Resources International (PRI), is being set up, and Pangea Resources Australia will
Promises, promises
"What we are seeking is public declarations from the CEOs that they will comply." — David Cousins, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's GST commissioner, on preventing companies from profiteering when the GST
By Jonathan Singer
BHP's attack on the Pilbara iron ore workers can be beaten. In Australia, while big business pushes for individual contracts, millions of workers continue to want the union organisation and collective work agreements that the
By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — Pauline Hanson was forced to flee from a One Nation meeting in the small town of Oakey, near Toowoomba in Queensland, on January 20. Her pursuers were not enraged leftists, but former colleagues who had left One
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