Australians are in for a treat this spring! Revolutionary feminist poet and organiser, Nellie Wong, will visit for five weeks. Nellie Wong, who currently resides in San Francisco, is a… Read more »
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Chicano struggle for liberation provides lessons for all
Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance by Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish, Red Letter Press (2008), 368 pages. ISBN 0-932323-28-6. Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish have… Read more »
Ending Imperialism’s non-stop war on humanity
Of the 36,524 days of the twentieth century, not one was free of war. It’s impossible to know if actual fighting occurred every day, but somewhere on the planet armed… Read more »
Neocon Ideologues and University Politics The RMIT Dismissal of Robert Austin
In its crusade to re-construct higher education institutions as free-market monasteries populated by conformist academics and demobilised students, the Howard Government has enacted legislation to publicly fund only those universities… Read more »
Reproductive rights coalition leads offensive against anti-woman onslaught
On June 30, 120,000 unionists marched with banners and umbrellas through the centre of Melbourne. Working people — old, young, women, men, queer, straight, of many colours and many pushing… Read more »
Resisting the Bush War Machine
“For these reasons, it is absurd to condemn the resistance to the U.S. occupation in Iraq as being masterminded by terrorists or insurgents or supporters of Saddam Hussein. After all… Read more »
Sexism Never Scores!
Who could forget the image of Indigenous Australian Football League (AFL) player, Nicky Winmar, lifting his jumper and pointing to his black skin in defiance of racist taunts from the… Read more »
Ugly Americans: Abu Ghraib shakes U.S. complacency
When news broke in late April about American soldiers torturing and humiliating Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison, the U.S. public reacted with revulsion and dismay. The photographs and accounts of… Read more »
Genetic Engineering and the Patenting of Life
Basmati rice, potatoes that glow when “thirsty” and a highland man from Papua New Guinea would seem, on the face of it, to have little in common. In fact, they… Read more »
Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American Liberation
My hometown, Guilford Connecticut, had one African American family. The only other family of colour was from Puerto Rico, brought in as cheap labour for Pinchbeck’s prosperous rose farm, just… Read more »
