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Plans to break Maritime Union

By Chris Spindler SYDNEY — The Australian newspaper on April 27 carried advertisements for waterfront workers. These workers are part of the federal government's plan to break the Maritime Union of Australia by encouraging new stevedoring

Gulliver revisited

Gulliver's TravelsBy Jonathan SwiftEdited by Christopher FoxBoston: Bedford Books of St Martin's Press1995. 480 pp.Reviewed by Graham Milner Why should activists on the left be interested in reading Jonathan Swift? Wasn't he the reactionary Tory

New anti-uranium group forms

By Zanny Begg BRISBANE — On April 29, around 45 people squeezed into the miscellaneous workers' union hall and decided to form a new group, the Coalition Against the Mining and Export of Uranium (CAMEU). The meeting was attended by a range of

Rolling stoppages by SA education workers

Stoppages by SA education workers By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE South Australian schools began term two on April 29 with last minute attempts to prevent industrial action being thwarted. The South Australian Institute of Teachers and Public

Fighting back against the Liberals: the Canberra experience

CANBERRA — In the last 13 years, there have been few big industrial actions to defend wages and conditions. TIM GOODEN, NOEL BARTONE and STEVE CROFTS are Community and Public Sector Union workplace delegates in the ACT government. They explain why

Loose cannons

Democrat — 1 "If somebody wants to risk burning this country to ashes, let them arrest me." — South African Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi in response to evidence before the murder trial of former defence

NZ Alliance campaigns to save the forests

By John Percy New Zealand Alliance leader Jim Anderton outlined a bold plan to rescue the country's remaining unsold pine plantations at the party's national conference, held in Wellington April 6-7. A week prior to the conference, the National

Socialists almost win Irish by-election

By Steve Jolly The recent Dublin West parliamentary by-election has stunned political observers. Militant Labour's Joe Higgins won 23% of the first preference vote and lost by only 370 votes. Australian Militant and Irish Militant Labour are both

The winning back of Rusden

By Viviana Sacchero MELBOURNE — Rusden is an intimate campus of Deakin University on which a mere 2000 students reside. Last month its students came close to being losers in the federal government's agenda of education cuts. On April 22, at a

Public servants in ACT call for action

By Leslie Williams CANBERRA — Community and Public Sector Union members around the country met last week to vote on an initial union response to the federal government's attacks. Public sector workers are losing jobs, suffering budget cuts and

Lighting the dark corners of our world

SkylightBy David HareDirected by Roger HodgmanThe Wharf Theatre, Sydney, until June 15Reviewed by Brendan Doyle This Melbourne Theatre Company production of British left-wing playwright David Hare's latest play is one of the theatre highlights of

Bougainville leader exiled to Netherlands

By Norm Dixon According to a report in the Port Moresby Post-Courier, Martin Miriori, the representative of the Bougainville Interim Government based in the Solomon Islands, has been forced to fly to the Netherlands, where he has been granted