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The connections between racism and revolution

REVIEW BY ALISON THORNE Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American LiberationBy Richard Fraser and Tom BootRed Letter Press, Seattle 2004224 pages, $28.00 (pb)Available in Australia from Feminist Education Association, PO Box

On the box

Message Stick — Sydney Aboriginal artist Brooke Andrew challenges the stereotypical image of Indigenous art. ABC, Friday, October 22, 6pm. Cuban Missile Crisis Declassified — Tells the story of 13 days in 1962 when the world stood on the brink

Arundhati Roy to donate US$50,000 to Aborigines

SYDNEY — In an interview printed in the October 14 Bulletin magazine, Indian writer and anti-globalisation campaigner Arundhati Roy, comparing Australia's Aborigines to India's untouchables, said she wanted to donate her $50,000 Sydney Peace Prize

A woman's place is in the struggle: Marry and multiply, says Family First

Coming out of the October 9 federal elections, it seems that Family First candidate Steven Fielding may have the balance of power in the Senate, after receiving just 42,560 votes, because most parties, including Labor and the Democrats, preferenced

CDU management under fire

Kathy Newnam, Darwin Postgraduate students at Charles Darwin University have declared their determination to continue to fight university management attempts to relocate 35 postgraduate research students to what they are calling "holding pens".

An account of forced deportation

This is a man's account of Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) and immigration department (DIMA) staff's attempt to forcibly deport him from Villawood detention centre. I'd been informed by the DIMA for the first time on 11 October 1999 I am

National convergence for refugee rights

Sarah Stephen Plans are underway for a national convergence on Canberra on November 16, the first sitting day of federal parliament since the October 9 federal election returned the Coalition to government. The convergence is a joint initiative

The irresistible resistible Arturo Ui

REVIEW BY JESS MELVIN The Resistible Rise of Arturo UiA play by Bertolt BrechtDirected by Erin ThomasPACT Theatre, Erskineville, Sydney. October 7-30Tickets $24/$18, bookings (02) 9699 344Concession tickets available for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly readers.

Howard has no mandate!

PM John Howard now claims a mandate for a raft of reactionary measures that he didn't even mention during the federal election campaign. Before polling it was all about security, trust and "rewards". Just four days after the election, treasurer

IRAQ: US holds fire for election

Doug Lorimer The Los Angeles Times has reported that US officials have told it the Bush administration has decided to delay a major offensive to recapture rebel Iraqi cities until after the November 2 US presidential election. A week earlier,

Timor: Australia's real role

REVIEW BY VANNESSA HEARMAN Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East TimorBy Clinton FernandesScribe Publications, Melbourne 2004138 pages Clinton Fernandes, a Melbourne-based writer on politics and international

Our Common Cause: Taming power — no more crying on election night

I have a friend who, along with his family, actively opposes the Howard government's iniquitous policies — the ones that throw asylum seekers in concentration camps and turn Australians into US lap dogs, making us targets for acts of retaliation.