Mary Merkenich

  • Melbourne teachers achieve a victory

    MELBOURNE — Australian Education Union members at Mill Park Secondary College in Melbourne's north-west recently stopped an erosion of their working conditions. Mill Park is the second largest state secondary college in

  • Victorian Labor blames teachers

    Victorian Labor blames teachersMELBOURNE — Earlier this month, Victorian ALP leader John Brumby announced his "zero tolerance" education policy. The policy attacks teachers, ignores the real causes of illiteracy and is much

  • 'True blue' Australia

    MELBOURNE — On August 8, as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, a panel debated the High Court's May ruling to allow New Zealand television programs to be included in the Australian content standard. The panel

  • Teachers stop work in Victoria

    Teachers stop work in VictoriaMELBOURNE —Victorian Australian Education Union (AEU) members struck on May 27 as part of a campaign the AEU has been waging to win a certified agreement with the state government and to get the

  • Victorian teachers to stop work

    Victorian teachers to stop workMELBOURNE — Victorian state school teachers will stop work on November 12 as part of a campaign for a certified agreement with the government. The Australian Education Union (AEU) is seeking

  • Victorian teachers stop work

    Victorian teachers stop workMELBOURNE — Around 4000 Victorian teachers stopped work on February 27 and attended a mass meeting at the Sports and Entertainment Centre to show their anger at the continuing

  • Victorian teachers vote for industrial action

    MELBOURNE — Four thousand angry teachers defeated the Australian Education Union leadership's attempt to exclude industrial action from a campaign to stop school closures at a stop-work meeting on November 21.

  • Is Germany going fascist?

    At first glance, one could be forgiven for thinking, that the federal Republic of Germany is heading in the same direction it did in 1933. However that would be an over-simplification. The German

  • German government persecutes Kurds

    BOCHUM — A thousand people on April 23 took to the streets here, in the heart of Germany's Ruhr Valley. The demonstrators demanded no deportations of Kurds, an end to the criminalisation of Kurds by the Bonn government,

  • German fascists threaten opponents with violence

    BOCHUM - A 17-year-old pupil in Aurich, in the state of Niedersachsen, has had to go into hiding and receive police protection after neo-Nazis terrorised him and his family. This pupil is among 250 German citizens who, because

  • German media smell blood

    BOCHUM, Germany — Large sections of the German media have smelled blood, and now they are going for the kill. Tragically, in the case of one PDS (reformed communist party of the East) parliamentarian, this is literally the

  • German Greens an obstacle, says Ditfurth

    HATTINGEN, Germany — The German Greens are no longer a vehicle for social change, according to Jutta Ditfurth, the prominent "Fundi" who led a walkout from the party's congress in April. Speaking to Green Left, Ditfurth