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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
Goodbye Delia: Huge crowd pays tribute at memorial meeting
On a hot summer’s evening, family, friends and comrades gathered at the home of Delia Maxwell, who had died from breast cancer, to pay tribute to a remarkable woman. It… Read more »
“Anti-terror” laws attack basic rights: Organise to force a repeal — now!
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when two planes smashed into New York’s World Trade Centre, those responsible committed two atrocious crimes. They killed, in one shockingly memorable moment, more than… Read more »
Dissidents with disabilities: Overcoming capitalism’s obstacles
Sharaz Kayani’s self-immolation outside Parliament House in Canberra last year was a wake-up call — not only about the plight of refugees in this country but also the treatment of… Read more »
