[To the tune of "The Time Warp" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.]
It's astounding, how prejudice is growingand xenophobia takes its tollListen closely for it's about time you did soRacism is taking controlIt's just a jump to the rightAnd then a
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BY LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE — Despite an (unofficial) election campaign that had dragged on for nearly six months, on the night before polling day in the South Australian elections, 10% of voters had not decided who they would vote for. This was
Who owns Palm Sunday?
On February 11, for the second time in two weeks, I found myself excluded from a meeting of the Working Group to Stop War and Terrorism (the committee organising the 2002 Sydney Palm Sunday peace rally).
I attended the
If you have received a letter from the NSW State Electoral Office in the last six weeks requesting confirmation of your membership of Socialist Alliance, please reply NOW!
To succeed, the alliance's application for electoral registration in NSW
BY NICOLE COLSON
CHICAGO — In his State of the Union address, President George Bush piously declared that "America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity" — including "respect for women". But in the two weeks
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Since his meteoric rise to cabinet five months ago, the NSW Labor government's minister for police Michael Costa has implemented a series of initiatives that will send more people to jail.
One of his more subtle changes
BY CRISTINA SACCO
WOLLONGONG — Residents of Sandon Point, near Thirroul, the controversial site of a proposed upmarket housing development by Stocklands Constructions, were woken by the roar of bulldozers at 5am on February 12. Immediately "phone
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — The metalworkers at Tiemans couldn't remember the last time they had been on strike. The older ones had hazy memories of the 35-hour week campaign 21 years ago. But on February 1, when the boss sacked three young workers
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — President George Bush's "war on terrorism" is leading to some complex and contradictory reactions among African Americans.
Like an overwhelming majority of Americans, blacks reacted to the heinous crime of
LumumbaDirected by Raoul PeckWith Eriq Ebouaney, Maka KottoScreening at Valhalla and Chauvel Cinemas, Sydney, and Lumiere Cinema, Melbourne
REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT
Lumumba ends as the film begins, with a heart-wrenching dramatisation of the brutal
BY KATIE NEVILLE
MELBOURNE — As thousands travelled to Canberra to protest the government's inhumane refugee policies, solidarity protests also occurred across Australia on February 12.
Four hundred people gathered outside immigration
BY JUDE McCULLOCH & DAMIEN LAWSON
It is 30 years since Bloody Sunday, when British paratroopers, suppressing a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, opened fire and killed 14 unarmed civilians — half of them teenagers. Though these
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