Greg Adamson

  • Origins of the Australian anti-uranium campaign

    Opposition to uranium mining in Australia emerged as a mass movement in the 1970s. However, opposition to environmental destruction had already existed for more than a century. Campaigners for national parks, against the

  • A proud history of secondary student activism

    In the last three decades, Australian secondary students have stood up for their rights time after time. In many, probably most cases, secondary student activists in Resistance have been among their leaders. In every case, charges

  • As CPSU leaders retreat, public servants demand action

    As CPSU leaders retreat, public servants demand actionCANBERRA —Anger is rising among Australian Public Service workers at the feeble and disorganised response of the Community and Public Sector Union to the Howard government's

  • It's time for leaders to lead

    The latest round of Community and Public Sector Union mass meetings against Howard's threatened 10% cut to the Australian public sector showed that the mood for a fight is strong among broad sectors of public sector workers.

  • PSU-SPSF: a union amalgamation to reject

    Between March 4 and March 25, members of the Public Sector Union and the seven State Public Services Federation unions will vote on whether to unite into one union, proposed to be called the Community and Public Sector Union.

  • Ainslie Village picket wins support

    CANBERRA — Residents and supporters of Ainslie Village, a low-income accommodation area, have maintained a 24-hour picket since January 16 in protest at hostile management activities. The picket has drawn broad community

  • PSU witchhunts former TLC head

    CANBERRA — A fake Public Service Union (PSU) campaign over job security has focussed attention on dubious dealings in the ACT branch of the Labor Party. The PSU executive cried foul in the employment of former Trades and

  • Alternative to the 'red-back and funnel-web'

    Alternative to the 'red-back and funnel-web'CANBERRA — Democratic Socialist Party candidate Lara Pullin made an impact in her first week of campaigning for the ACT Legislative Assembly elections on February 15. The

  • Democratic Socialists launch ACT election campaign

    CANBERRA — "Stop the Labor/Liberal program of sack, slash, tax and sell!" is the slogan being raised in the February 15 ACT Legislative Assembly elections by Democratic Socialist candidate Lara Pullin. The Labor and Liberal

  • Indonesia solidarity actions planned

    MELBOURNE — A campaign for the release of students imprisoned in Indonesia was one of several national campaigns launched at a conference held here over the weekend of September 21-22. Around 70 people attended the first

  • Tough times for revolutionary Cuba

    Thirty-two years after its revolution, Cuba is training 100,000 oxen for plowing, President Fidel Castro reported earlier this year. This underlines the extreme problems faced by the small Caribbean island. Cuba's natural

  • Sydney Greens discuss elections, national links

    SYDNEY - Public transport, housing, and the lack of city-wide planning are among the issues which the Sydney Greens will be raising in the May 25 state elections. Founding member and journalist Hall Greenland has been nominated as