Dump the cuts, not the books at Sydney Uni library
A PLAN to cull half a million books from Sydney Uni’s Fisher Library and make thirty staff redundant has met with a student outcry.Anger brewed when the Head Librarian,...
Four years too long—time to scrap Intervention laws
In July 2012, NT Intervention powers, such as compulsory 5-year leases and management powers over all assets and organisations within Aboriginal communities, will reach their sunset clause. Federal funding...
Welfare Quarantine spreads
Income Management (IM), first applied to Aboriginal communities through the NT Intervention, will be extended to five “disadvantaged areas” from July 2012 following an announcement in the May budget.The...
European emissions trading scam should be a lesson
LABOR IS poised to introduce a carbon price, starting with a tax that will morph into an emissions trading scheme (ETS) within three to five years. The model for...
‘SlutWalk’: Women refuse to take the blame for rape
Protests, billed as “SlutWalks”, are spreading after a cop’s sexist comment to Toronto students. Our society promotes and constantly reinforces the idea that women are to blame if they...
Qantas plans to undercut wages exposed
The battlelines are being drawn at Qantas, with management maintaining its belligerence against unions in Enterprise Bargaining negotiations. While the engineers union has postponed any strike action, there is...
NSW Liberals attack on public sector ‘worse than WorkChoices’
The NSW Public Service Association (PSA) has imposed bans on public servant overtime in response to the NSW Liberal government’s announcement of a 2.5 per cent pay cap and...
Vale Bob Gould—left and labour activist over six decades
Almost anyone who has been serious about left-wing politics of any kind in Australia has a story about Bob Gould, whether it be trawling the shelves of one of...
Eyewitness: Spain’s indignant take democracy into their own hands
An atmosphere of rebellion has swept across Spain. On May 15, tens of thousands of people took to the streets for statewide demonstrations calling for “real democracy now” under...
Facing down the regime’s crackdown in Syria
The wave of Arab revolutions appears to have stalled in Syria in the face of a massive crackdown by the regime.Opposition to the regime is united in its...
As the Arab spring jumps borders, Palestinian leaders play catch up
“THE PEOPLE want Tahrir in Palestine”—this was the chant unifying the thousands attempting to march on Israel’s borders from Lebanon and Syria and protesting in the Palestinian Occupied Territories...
Libya: the west wants a client regime
THE REAL political agenda behind the West’s so-called humanitarian intervention in Libya becomes clearer by the day. NATO’s bombing campaign has been relentless. More than 2700 bombs were dropped...
UN report confirms horror of Sri Lanka’s war on Tamils
A UN report released in March gives horrific confirmation of the terror that is forcing Tamils to flee Sri Lanka and seek asylum in Australia.It comes at the end...
Eyewitness to Tunisia’s unfinished revolution
Olivia Nigro reports from Tunisia on the challenges still facing workers in Tunisia after they toppled dictator Ben AliHistoric May Day as workers fight in the unionsMAY DAY in...
Keynes and recovery: Labor’s mixed up economics
Jean Parker looks at Labor’s muddled defence of its neo-liberal budget, and its abandonment of social democratic policies “Keynesians in the recovery”, written for the Australian Fabian News (May 2011)...
Osama’s dead, but the real terrorists are still on the loose
As the killing of Osama Bin Laden is met with patriotic zeal, James Supple takes a look at what it’s going to take to fight the world’s biggest terrorist—the...
Smoke bombs, sit-ins and sixties’ student radicalism at Monash
Review: All Along the Watchtower, by Michael Hyde, The Vulgar Press, $32.95.With this memoir, Michael Hyde opens us up to the world of 1960s revolutionary activists and gives a...
Carbon tax won’t stop new coal power
Intensive negotiations to determine the final shape of the government’s carbon tax are underway. But it is already clear that the fight to stop new coal power stations and to demand...
