DOROTEA WILSON, a leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and a member of its National Directorate, is on a tour of Australia, speaking about the issues of land rights and autonomy. She is from the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua and
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Editorial: Beware of soft cops
Beware of soft cops
The wharf dispute must be pretty serious: after a couple of decades indoors, be-suited ALP politicians have been appearing on (well, alongside) picket lines. Last week, Kim Beazley did a photo
By Peter Montague
Since 1993, scientists worldwide have been trying to understand why frog populations are reported to be steeply declining in relatively unspoiled environments on several continents. And since 1995 scientists have been struggling
By Trevor Acfieldand Paul Glenning
ROCKHAMPTON — "Super dams" being energetically promoted by the state government for central Queensland will be a massive subsidisation of the cotton, grain and coal industries. The government intends to spend up
By Nick Everett
BRISBANE — Three thousand unionists met in City Hall on the April 16 and resolved to "mobilise against the unfair and unjust federal and state legislation and to prepare for an industrial campaign to ensure that trade unions can
The Two Bums
The bum on the road is an enemy of mankindThe other is driven around to his club, is feted, wined and dinedAnd they who curse the bum on the road as the essence of all that's badWill greet the other with a winning smile and extend the
International solidarity with the wharfies
News of actions in other countries in solidarity with the sacked waterside workers is beginning to come in. In addition to the actions being organised by participants at the Asia Pacific Solidarity
Russian wages crash
Two University of California at Berkeley sociologists have discovered that real wages in Russia have declined by 50% since the fall of communism. The study, due to be published in the July issue of the American Journal of
Thousands join Melbourne picket lines
By Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — Mass pickets over the last week and a half at East Swanson and Webb Docks have generated amazing solidarity among workers. On the morning of April 8, as the news filtered
Join the wharfies' picket
Bravo to those who did the hard work behind the recent Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference. It was great to see it full to capacity. The speakers on the morning I went, especially Mari Alkitiri, were an inspiration. It
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