Hands off Iraq!
The government of the United States is openly planning still another military attack on the people of Iraq. Once again, the most powerful military machine in history is to be turned against helpless civilians, whose murder will be
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Telstra unfair dismissal case adjourned
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — The Industrial Relations Commission hearing of the unfair dismissal case of Mervyn Vogt has been adjourned to April 14. Vogt, a Community and Public Sector Union delegate at
Wharfies seek solidarity
By Graham Mathews
BRISBANE — Wharfies here are ready to defend their wages and conditions. With small victories over the Liberal government last year in the Cairns dispute and over the Dubai fiasco, their morale is
Russian miners die as government delays payments
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Another horrific coal mine disaster has shocked the Russian public and angered coal industry workers. Early on January 18, an explosion and fire in the Tsentralnaya
Media bash 'single mums'
By Karen Fletcher
Brisbane GP Judy Stokes has shot to media super-stardom in Queensland following her letter to the Courier-Mail calling for single mothers to be forced to give up their children for adoption after the
Telling it like it is: Land rights and the pastoral industry
Bludgers in Grass Castles: Native title and the unpaid debts of the pastoral industryBy Martin TaylorResistance Books, 1998$3.95 from Resistance Bookshops (addresses page 2) or send
New WA anti-graffiti laws
By Sean Martin-Iverson
PERTH — The state Liberal government has moved to make WA's already draconian anti-graffiti laws even harsher. The existing legislation, which allows for penalties of 200 hours of community
Socialism — the way forwardBy John PercyResistance Books, 199730pp., $3.50Available at all Resistance Bookshops Review by Pip Hinman
While the early 1990s was marked by a propaganda offensive about the end of "socialism", as we near the end of
By Jennifer Thompson
Four hundred Aboriginal people and their supporters gathered in Sydney on January 26, the 60th anniversary of the 1938 Day of Mourning and Protest by Aboriginal people at the sesquicentenary celebrations of European
NT TLC condemns Labor leader over Jabiluka
By Tim E. Stewart
DARWIN — Support for the campaign against the proposed uranium mine at Jabiluka has been strengthened after the NT Trades and Labour Council at its January meeting condemned NT Labor