By Jolyon Campbell
MELBOURNE — As Green Left goes to press it appears construction workers have been successful in their bid for a 15% cross-industry pay rise, with 12 national building companies and 118 smaller employers signed up to grant
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By April Bragg and David Mizon
MELBOURNE — On September 21 and 22, a community picket was set up in the Braybrook public housing estate to stop the eviction of a Somali family. The Farah family of five children, their mother and her
Chiapas: the end of 'the end of history' Australian MIKE LEACH visited Mexico and Chiapas earlier this year. He reports on the ongoing struggle. A crowd of 500 Mexican protesters faces the federal army in the remote tropical jungle of southern
By Bronwen Beechey
Over the next two weeks Sydney and Melbourne will host the White Gloves National Film Festival, the only silent black and white shoot-to-show film festival in the world. First held in 1989 to mark the centenary of the
By Lisa Macdonald
Two months ago, Australian Democrats Senator John Coulter presented a bill to prohibit "the exportation of uranium-bearing ore or uranium ore concentrates, the immediate or final destination of which is, or is intended to be,
By Jennifer Thompson
In the last few weeks Greenpeace has been under fire from several fronts. While the French military and government have led the charge with attacks on Greenpeace ships in the vicinity of Moruroa atoll, the establishment
Write on: letters to the editorArrighi
On reading Jonathan Strauss' stimulating review of Giovanni Arrighi's latest book, The Long Twentieth Century (GLW #203), the question that springs to mind is: who are Arrighi's main influences? Certainly,
By Natasha Izatt
MELBOURNE — Over 30 delegates from 14 TAFE colleges discussed the major issues affecting TAFE student organisations at the Victorian TAFE Students and Apprentices Conference on September 23-24. VTSAN coordinator Maurice
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Protesters against the Eastlink power project vowed to launch a South-East Tollway-style campaign against the federal ALP government after talks with the state government broke down on September 19. They promised to
Holy TerrorThe Last PoetsBlack Arc/Ryko through FestivalReviewed by Sujatha Fernandes "When the moment hatches in time's wombThere will be no art talk:The only poem you will hearwill be the spear point pivotedin the punctured marrow of the
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