Economics are very much the starting point for understanding Australian politics in 1995. The international pattern of growth without prosperity or a large decline in unemployment very much describes the Australian economy
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"If we treated our members the same way that the ACTU treats us, we wouldn't have any members left", commented John Price, federal secretary of the Transport Workers Union, speaking to Green Left Weekly about the union's
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Results from the first stage of counting indicate that four out of the seven congressional candidates supported by SANLAKAS, a federation of progressive mass organisations, and the Student Advocates for Voter Empowerment
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In his recently published book Socialism: What Went Wrong?, Irwin Silber, long-term activist in the US left and editorial member of Crossroads magazine, argues that there has been no objective basis for socialist
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Six hundred thousand Cubans rallied in Havana's Revolution Square on August 7 to pay tribute to a 19-year-old police officer killed on August 4 while trying to foil the hijacking of a passenger boat in Havana Bay. The rally
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Despite heavy rains around 40,000 people protested in Manila against the Filipino version of a consumption tax, the Value Added Tax (VAT), which the Ramos government is threatening to introduce during the next session of
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A number of activist groups, including the People's Coalition against Vat (KOMVAT) and Kill VAT are planning major protest actions against the Ramos governments' expanded value added tax (VAT) law. The actions are being timed
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"Today is a historical day in Palestine", Radwan Abu Ayyash, chair of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, told Green Left Weekly on May 19 as the last Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza and Jericho. Under the Oslo
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The Israeli settler who massacred around 50 Palestinian worshippers on the morning of February 25 at the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron, was a well-known leader of Kach, an extreme right-wing Zionist organisation. Wearing a
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MANILA — SANLAKAS (People's Solidarity for Democracy and Freedom), a broad coalition of organisations campaigning for national freedom and democracy, held its inaugural convention here on October 29. The coalition is
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By Bergen O'Brien and Reihana Mohideen On January 1, 1991, Sue Franknel and Bill Strait (US citizens), Moana Cole from New Zealand and Ciaron O'Reilly from Brisbane — calling themselves "Anzus Ploughshares" — seriously compromised the
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John Fahey's softly, softly budgetSYDNEY — The NSW Liberal government's September 7 budget seems less harsh than the recent budget of the Goss Labor government in Queensland. The cutbacks to the public sector proposed