Sue Bolton

  • Mighell and Marshall deliver bombshell to ALP

    At a joint media conference on March 17, Electrical Trades Union Victorian secretary Dean Mighell and United Firefighters Union Victorian secretary Peter Marshall announced that they were quitting the Labor Party. It is not

  • Qantas workers avert lockout

    SYDNEY — The two main unions covering Qantas maintenance workers, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Australian Workers Union (AWU), won a small victory on February 4 when they forced Qantas to stop

  • NEW ZEALAND: Alliance factions make compromise

    A heated dispute which broke out in November within the New Zealand Alliance over its MPs support for the sending of SAS troops to participate in the US-led war in Afghanistan appears to have ended in a compromise. After a vigorous

  • NEW ZEALAND: Alliance torn apart by Afghan war

    AUCKLAND — When the New Zealand parliament voted on October 3 to offer Special Air Services troops and other military assistance to the US-led war in Afghanistan and declared that it "totally supports the approach being taken by the

  • Why unions should oppose the war

    Since September 11, many Muslims and migrants from South Asia and the Middle East have copped racist abuse, and even violence, on the street. But that's not the end of it: many have even suffered harassment from workmates or

  • Not even a pretence of impartiality

    If you thought that the federal Coalition government's royal commission into the building industry is meant to investigate corruption, you're wrong. The terms of reference of the royal commission, and federal minister for workplace

  • Building workers protest Abbott's kangaroo court

    BY CHRIS SLEE& SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — Between 8000-10,000 building workers marched through central Melbourne and converged on the Collins Street headquarters of the federal royal commission into the building industry on October 10, the day of the

  • Unions oppose military retaliation

    Following in the tradition of unions which took a strong stand against the Vietnam War, some unions have adopted motions opposing US military retaliation for the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11. The

  • Ansett workers refuse to go quietly

    MELBOURNE — Thousands of Ansett workers and supporters demonstrated at major airports throughout Australia on September 21. By continuing to demonstrate, as well as turning up ready to work their shifts, the workers are refusing to

  • 'A historic moment for the left'

    "An historic moment for the left in Australia" was the most common comment made by participants in the founding conference of the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne over the August 4-5 weekend. This is not the first attempt to unite

  • Socialist Alliance votes for action

    In line with its perspective that the Socialist Alliance needs to give support to extra-parliamentary campaigns, the conference voted to support the protests being organised against the Commonwealth Business Forum in

  • GST bites working people

    The truth is out about just what the GST is doing to working families. Before the 1998 election, the government didn't just unleash a barrage of misleading, even lying, propaganda about the consumption tax, it also prevented the