GLW issue 164, published 1994-10-26.

National Day of Action: East Timor

On October 15, Resistance organised a National Day of Action for freedom in East Timor. Across Australia people rallied around the demands "Indonesia out of East Timor" and " Australia out of the Timor Gap". The day mobilised thousands of people and

Memorial lecture well attended

Memorial lecture well attended By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — Eighty people braved unusually cold and rainy weather to attend the 1994 Jim Percy Memorial Lecture here on October 18. The lecture, given by Dick Nichols from the

The people's politician in Adelaide

By Adam Hanieh ADELAIDE — It was enough to bring tears to the eyes of any True Believer. Two hundred people cram into the beer garden of the Exeter Hotel. The atmosphere is restless. Someone gets up and sings a few working-class songs.

The ALP left: isolated from socialism

Jim McIlroy continues a debate Roger Clarke (GLW #162) correctly describes isolation from the working class as the key problem facing the socialist movement today. In his article entitled "Isolation from the workers: the real prison for

Further

Australian News

SA public sector conditions threatened

SA public sector conditions threatened By Trish Corcoran and Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — Attacks on workers in the state public sector have been unrelenting since the election of the Brown Liberal government last December.

DSS dispute escalates

DSS dispute escalates By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — Community and Public Sector Union members in the Department of Social Security voted on October 19 to escalate industrial action in a dispute over staffing and resources.

Further Australian News

International News

European trade unionists aid Bosnia

By Norm Dixon AMSTERDAM — The besieged people of Tuzla, a large industrial and mining town in Bosnia surrounded by Serbian forces, recently welcomed the 14th convoy of trucks bringing much-needed food aid and political solidarity. The

Rabin turns Hamas attacks against PLO

By Jennifer Thompson Following the October 19 suicide bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv by Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made it clear the attack would be used as a pretext to move further toward his

Further International News

Editorial

A look into privatisation

A look into privatisation A glimpse of the wonders of privatisation was provided on October 17 when a report tabled in the NSW parliament by the auditor-general, Tony Harris, dredged up the scandal of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel and similar

Cultural Dissent

Not Mother and Son

Hotspur By Geoffrey Atherden Starring Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House Until December 10 Reviewed by Frank Noakes Freddy Brown (Garry McDonald) enters stage left, quietly ushering

A quietly subversive, eccentric spy

Graham Greene: The Man Within By Michael Shelden Heinemann, 1994. 537 pp., $45 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon The left has got Graham Greene entirely wrong. According to Shelden's biography, Greene was no friend of

Further Cultural Dissent

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