Mercury danger continues at hospital
By Paul Jones
BRISBANE — Despite promises from Royal Brisbane Hospital, mercury spillage dangers there continue, staff have told Green Left Weekly.
In July the Division of Workplace Heath and
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Refinery workers picket Port Stanvac
By Tully Bates
ADELAIDE — Forty-five maintenance workers from the Port Stanvac oil refinery picketed the plant after wage negotiations broke down. The action, which started on October 29, has halted
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald
By Michael Wreszin
BasicBooks, 1994. 590 pp., $45.00 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The US left has an unfortunately rich history of Trotskyist and other socialist
By Jon Lamb
MANILA — The campaign launch for the Free all Political Prisoners Movement (FPPM) was held at the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus on October 19.
The campaign hopes to win the release of some 309 political
By Mikael Karlsson
New Swedish music is music with attitude. It spits in the face of authority and draws an unpolished picture of Swedish society — a picture that is anything but nice to look at. It is music with a message, directed into the
Glowing pains
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — In the bizarre world of capitalism, lobbying for more nuclear waste is portrayed as rational. The Court government is pushing to establish a national nuclear waste dump in Western Australia's
By Nick Fredman
In a manner reminiscent of the bloody anti-crime campaigns of the 1980s, Indonesian authorities have in recent weeks been clearing Jakarta's streets of beggars and other "unsightly" elements in preparation for the November 15
By Max Anderson
LONDON — On October 29, a day marked by constant drizzle and the occasional heavy shower, thousands of people marched from the Temple tube station on the Embankment to Trafalgar Square, where a CND (Campaign for Nuclear
By Zanny Begg
SYDNEY — In 1982 Alan Mills moved to Londonderry to find a peaceful plot on which to relax and grow native trees. Mills, who teaches maths at the local school, soon found that relaxing was the last thing he was going to be doing
By Stephen Robson
From 1949 until 1972, the Liberal Party held federal government. Following the decision of the powers that be to terminate the Whitlam government in 1975, the Liberal Party again governed until 1983.
By this time, the
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