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Protests against SA water privatisation

By Hendrik Gout ADELAIDE — In two months' time a multinational consortium will take control of the state's water supply. United Water, a French, English and Australian firm, has the contract to deliver water to every house, shop, office, factory

NSW TAFE teachers' strike

By Karen Fletcher SYDNEY — NSW TAFE teachers will strike for 24 hours on November 14 to protest the state ALP government's application of national competition policy to vocational education and training (VET) — which expressly goes against ALP

A force for good in the world

If This is a Man and The TruceBy Primo LeviAbacus, 1995. 398 pp., $16.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon The poisonous Demidenko/Darville rewriting of the history of the anti-Semitic horror of European fascism needs an antidote. There are none better

Student Underground

By Katie Hepworth On November 6 the first full-length edition of Student Underground was sent out to schools all over NSW. The newspaper was produced by the Secondary Student Anti-Nuclear Network (SSAN) and joins a large number of student papers that

Invaluable reference for the solidarity activist

East Timor: Genocide in ParadiseBy Matthew Jardine with introduction by Noam ChomskyOdonian Press, 1995Reviewed by Jon Lamb Matthew Jardine is a US-based journalist and researcher who visited East Timor in July 1992, six months after the Dili

The Mexican murder mysteries - 3

Four leading members of Mexico's ruling elite have been assassinated over the past two years. Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and six other people died in a gun battle at Guadalajara's Miguel Hidalgo international airport

Guess who gains from national competition policy?

By Paul Oboohov Assistant federal treasurer George Gear puts the government's line on national competition policy: it's about cutting business costs and creating a competitive and consumer-driven culture and would increase productivity leading to

The real record of Yitzhak Rabin

By Jennifer Thompson The proclamations by governments and the media of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as a courageous "peacemaker" are not surprising given his Nobel peace prize, shared with his replacement, Israeli Foreign Minister

The CPA and the unions

By John Percy The Communist Party of Australia developed a strong base in important industrial unions during the 1930s. As the depression eased, CPA members recruited from the unemployed and trained in action through the struggles of the Depression,

You can't judge a book by its cover

Transitions: New Australian FeminismsEdited by Barbara Caine and Rosemary PringleAllen & Unwin, 1995. 237 pp., $24.95 (pb)Reviewed by Carla Gorton Women's studies texts are no longer dowdy looking books your eyes skim over on the library or bookshop

Write on: letters to the editor

A development parable The World Bank decides to sponsor a developmental project in a Third World country. The project initially forcibly removes the peasants from land. A small wealthy group of neo-entrepreneurs/farmers move in to grow a cash crop

Using sensationalism to avoid the facts

By Jen Crothers On October 24, 15-year-old Anna Wood died. She had an allergic reaction to something, probably heroin, cut into the ecstasy she'd taken days before. NSW premier Bob Carr and the media have launched a hypocritical hype festival over