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Roxby to test law on union access

Roxby to test law on union access By Philippa Stanford ADELAIDE — The Roxby Downs uranium mine in South Australia is shaping up as a major test site of the Howard government's new industrial relations laws. Western Mining Corporation

Letter from the US: Immigrant workers fight back

Immigrant workers fight backImmigrant workers fight back By Barry Sheppard On March 8, hundreds of workers at two plants in the San Francisco Bay Area, and their supporters, held rallies and pickets in a fight to win union

Life of Riley: Parliament: a class act

Parliament: a class actParliament: a class act When was the last time MPs took industrial action? Doctors do it. Lawyers are thinking about it. Teachers and nurses strike. But MPs? I don't think so. Why? Is it written "I say unto

Save Redfern Block campaign continues

Save Redfern Block campaign continues By Chris Spindler SYDNEY — Rumours of the appearance of bulldozers from March 17 circulated as Aboriginal Redfern Housing Coalition members mobilised for an Aboriginal Housing Company meeting on March

One-way 'mutual obligation'

One-way 'mutual obligation' Federal cabinet last week approved plans to double the size of a work for the dole scheme announced by PM John Howard last month, and to introduce tougher penalties for young people who refuse to participate or drop

Postmodern socialism?

Globalization and Its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern SocialismBy Roger Burbach, Orlando Nunez and Boris KagarlitskyPluto Press, London and Chicago, 1997, £12.99. Review by Paul Clarke It should be universally recognised that in the

Stephanie Wilkinson

Stephanie Wilkinson Stephanie Wilkinson, the founder of Australians Against Executions, died of cancer in Sydney on March 8. She was 62. Stephanie — half her friends knew her as Stephanie, the other half as "Jill", a nickname given to go

and ain't i a woman?: Anti-feminist 'socialists'

Anti-feminist 'socialists'Anti-feminist 'socialists' The establishment media's coverage of International Women's Day on March 8 focused, not on the thousands of women who marched demanding better wages, child-care services and access to

Socialists do well in Brisbane election

Socialists do well in Brisbane election By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "The vote of more than 6% for Democratic Socialist candidates in the Brisbane City Council election on March 15 shows that a sizeable number of people are beginning to look

Mass campaign saves Rosebery hospital

By Tony Iltis HOBART — Last June, the Tasmanian Liberal government announced the closure of the hospital in the isolated West Coast community of Rosebery. However, a mass campaign by the local community has brought it a reprieve, although its

Beazley's back flip on Hindmarsh Island condemned

Beazley's back flip on Hindmarsh Island condemned By Carla Gorton ADELAIDE — The Kumarangk Coalition, which has been campaigning against the Hindmarsh Island bridge proposal since 1993, says that the federal ALP's decision to support the

Australian military aid to PNG will not be cut

By Norm Dixon Following a meeting between Australian PM John Howard and PNG PM Julius Chan in Sydney on March 9, Howard hinted that military aid to PNG may be boosted and more Australian army "advisers" sent to replace the hired guns from