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S11: high school activists debate tactics

S11: high school activists debate tactics BY JODY BETZIEN MELBOURNE — Beginning September 11, this city will experience a myriad of anti-World Economic Forum (WEF) actions. There is a lot of discussion and debate about how to coordinate and

'We were our own censors'

'We were our own censors' The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to KosovoBy Phillip KnightlyPrion, 2000574pp., $35 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was in South Africa to report on

No solution can come from elite, meeting told

No solution can come from elite, meeting told BY MATT LIVINGSTON BRISBANE — The crisis in Indonesia cannot be solved by "shifting deck chairs on the Titanic", the national coordinator of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor

KURDISTAN: Women launch campaign against PUK attacks

On July 21, the armed forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which rules Iraqi Kurdistan with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, under the protection of United States imperialism, forcibly closed the offices of the Independent Women's

EAST TIMOR: Militia attacks increase

Pro-Jakarta militia operating out of refugee camps and other bases in West Timor show no sign of scaling down their attacks upon refugees or United Nations soldiers and humanitarian staff. The increasing number of clashes between the militia and UN

Asian trade unionists to speak

BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — Indonesian union leader Romawaty Sinaga, of the the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggle (FNPBI), and Francisco Pascual, of the Philippine People's Development Resource Centre, are the two international guest

New activist centre in Fremantle

BY IAN JAMIESON FREMANTLE — A new Resistance Centre has opened its doors in this Western Australian port city. The office is the culmination of many months of concerted effort by members of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance. Although

BRITAIN: Labour's elitist education

Earlier this summer, a comprehensive school student from the north-east was refused a place at Oxford University, despite having exceptionally high examination grades. The Labour Party, in a populist outburst which even by their standards of cynicism

Marxism on main street

Marxism on main street BY ADAM LEEMAN NEWCASTLE — Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party have officially opened their new office and bookshop here. Located in Newcastle's main street, at 472 Hunter Street, the building is close to City

Looking Out: I really need your help!

I really need your help! "I get by with a little help from my friends." — Paul McCartney Yes. Help is what I need. Immediate help. Regular readers will know that I am currently working on three manuscripts, one of which is an autobiographical

Why Howard hates sole mothers and lesbians

Why Howard hates sole mothers and lesbians BY LISA MACDONALD When Prime Minister John Howard announced on August 2 that the federal government would move to allow states to outlaw single women's and lesbians' access to in vitro fertilisation

... and ain't i a woman?: Life in us yet

Life in us yet Being a left activist and a feminist can be inspiring, sometimes frustrating, sometimes exhilarating, but it does not necessarily lead to exhaustion. Political "burn-out" is by no means inevitable. Many activists of the left