Residents tour ADI site
SYDNEY — Members of the ADI Residents Action Group on May 18 were given a guided tour of the Australian Defence Industries site, between St Marys and Penrith in Sydney's west, where developer Lend Lease has proposed to
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Bendigo residents oppose open cut mining
By Kerryn Williams
BENDIGO — Driving along Kangaroo Valley Road, it is impossible to ignore the sentiment of residents against the proposed open cut gold mining project in Kangaroo Flat. Large
Protest against cheap labour in garment industry
By Margaret Allan
SYDNEY — The Fair Wear Campaign, launched in April by a coalition of churches, community organisations and unions, held a speak-out outside the Sportsgirl retailer in the
New WA Legislative Council
PERTH — A rally of around 100 Greens and trade unionists on May 27 celebrated the end of Coalition control of the state Legislative Council. A new upper house elected in mid-December included three Greens WA
By James Vassilopoulos
Up to 1000 jobs will be lost under Qantas plans to contract out its customer service and ramp services work at Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth airports. According to the Australian Services Union (ASU), almost all workers
Since the invasion of southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) by 80,000 Turkish troops backed by tanks and helicopters on May 14, a series of protests have occurred around Australia. Arty Killis and Maurice Sibelle write from Melbourne that more than 100
The 'new, open' CIA
By Barry Sheppard
The Central Intelligence Agency recently declassified 1400 pages from its files on the coup it engineered in Guatemala in 1954, installing a corrupt military regime that waged war on its citizens
Email workers' victory a test case
By Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — On ABC-TV's Lateline program on May 28, Metal Trades Industry Association spokesperson Bert Evans said the Martin Bright workers' victory here was an example of the weakness of
TomorrowBy Ric ThrossellMelbourne: em Press, 1997. 289 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Ric Throssell's latest novel is a fictional re-creation of the life of the Communist Party of Australia from the late '30s to the party's dissolution
The People's Champion — Fred Paterson, Australia's Only Communist Party Member of ParliamentBy Ross FitzgeraldUniversity of Queensland Press, 1997.312 pp., $26.95 (pb) Review by John Nebauer
In 1944, Fred Paterson was elected as the member for
By Norm Dixon
Seemingly oblivious to the fact that Laurent Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (ADFL) achieved more in the struggle against the Mobutu dictatorship in eight months than the Kinshasa-based
WA unions continue campaign against 'third wave'
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — The next stages of the campaign against the state government's anti-union "third wave" legislation are being planned by the WA Trades and Labour Council. Half the
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