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What's behind the medical insurance crisis?

BY DAVE RILEY At the heart of the current medical insurance crisis is the private health-care system. Without specialist doctors on call and guaranteed liability coverage, private health care — much praised by successive Labor and Coalition

Huge salaries for witch-hunters

BY MARGARITA WINDISCH MELBOURNE — As the political witch-hunt against the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union continues in the form of the royal commission into the building industry, on May 28 it was revealed that the

Leigh Hubbard: ALP needs 'a complete re-stuffing'

[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an

Inessa Armand:

Inessa, Lenin's Mistress By Michael Pearson Duckworth, 2001 257 pages, $65.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When Inessa Armand met Vladimir Lenin in a Paris caf‚ in 1909, so began one of the most speculated about love affairs on the

Nurses fight pay injustice

BY KAMALA EMANUEL  HOBART — Four hundred nurses rallied on the Parliament House lawns on May 25 to protest the failure of the state Labor government to live up to an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) under which all nurses with

Dayson workers strike for union agreement

BY SHANE BENTLEY SYDNEY — Striking workers at the Dayson compressor maintenance plant in Rydalmere have rejected a management offer of a 4% pay increase in August and a further 2% in December, as part of a non-union agreement. The workers have

ALP ranks respond to mass pressure on refugees

ALP ranks respond to mass pressure on refugees The rumblings in the ranks of the ALP about the party’s disgusting sell-out of refugees are increasing. In Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, ALP state conferences passed motions

Correction

GLW #494 incorrectly stated that Doug Cameron is the national president of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. He is the national secretary. GLW apologises for the error. From Green Left Weekly, June 5, 2002. Visit the Green Left

India-Pakistan: Nuclear war threat grows

BY EVA CHENG The rulers of India and Pakistan — both nuclear-armed allies of Washington in the US-led "war on terrorism" — are terrorising each other with the threat of nuclear war. The Pentagon estimates that a full-scale nuclear exchange

AMWU food and confectionary election result unclear

BY SUE BOLTON The ballot for the position of national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union food and con- fectionary division has still not been decided. The ballot closed on May 20 and counting was carried out on May

Gareth Stephenson, CFMEU:'Cut the ALP adrift'

[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing

MBSMA bans GLW distribution

BY RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — Supporters of Green Left Weekly are once again having to defend their right to distribute the papers in public space. The latest attack on that right has come from Mindil Beach Sunset Markets Association (MBSMA). GLW