Congratulations to the Melbourne Pride March organisers for moving beyond party themes, choosing the more political “Peace through Pride.” Adopted by InterPride, the international body for Pride March organisations, this… Read more »
Editorial
Standing in solidarity with Muslim women
Bush’s “War on Terrorism” has the sickening stench of racism — as wars for profit always do. In the previous world war, Uncle Sam saved “Western Civilisation” from “Asian hordes.”… Read more »
When in doubt, blame the driver: the scapegoating of Patrick Fernandez
Danger signals. A red traffic light means stop and wait for green, but not on the railway! Many travellers died before signalling regulations were imposed. The idea was that only… Read more »
High Court legitimises dispossession: Racist judgement denies existence of Yorta Yorta Nation
In 1992, Indigenous Nations celebrated the Mabo Judgement, which finally recognised, partially, their traditional ownership of their country. Since then, both major parties have stacked the High Court with judges… Read more »
East Timor: A victory to celebrate and a struggle ahead
When the Freedom Socialist Party established a branch in Melbourne in 1983, one of our first affiliations was with the Australia-East Timor Association. Nineteen years later, we were overjoyed to… Read more »
ALP must NOT fudge on mandatory detention
The ALP leadership is tying itself in semantic knots. It now wants to politically distinguish itself from the Coalition over refugee policy while at the same time continuing to support… Read more »
Howard’s agenda for Indigenous people is assimilationist
Aboriginal leaders are right to be outraged by the Howard Government’s blatant ideological assault on the right to self-determination. At the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Policy Conference last… Read more »
Immunity from prosecution: International Criminal Court can’t touch the real war criminals
The definition of a crime against humanity is often a question of politics. It depends upon which side of the class divide one stands. Take the question of Palestine. Capitalist… Read more »
Fully paid maternity leave now! Women must not fund motherhood
Australia and the United States are the only two wealthy countries which do not provide a national paid maternity leave scheme. Compare this to Haiti and Jamaica, where women not… Read more »
The right to dissent — use it, before we lose it!
Alert! The Howard government plans to use the climate of fear resulting from the September 11 attacks in the United States to follow the lead of Canada, New Zealand, the… Read more »
