Communist Party's vision to change Japan
KIMITOSHI MORIHARA, vice-head of the Japanese Communist Party's international
department, took part in the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference in Sydney
over Easter. He outlined the JCP's analysis
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MUA alleges sabotage
BRISBANE — Waterside workers who triumphantly returned to work at Patrick's
wharves at Hamilton and Fisherman Island on May 8 have alleged that the
non-union work force damaged facilities, including the boom of a
By James Vassilopoulos
After a month of mass pickets, wharfies are back at work at the major Patrick operations, following the Maritime Union of Australia's win in the High Court. Mick O'Leary, national organiser of the MUA, told Green Left Weekly
By Marina Carman
SYDNEY — On May 1, Luke Whitington from the Labor left was declared the new president of the University of Sydney Students Representative Council. An electoral appeal had previously removed the conservative Adair Durie, elected
May Day has been a day of celebration of working-class struggles and victories, and of protest against the ongoing exploitation of working people, for 112 years. This year it was marked amidst an economic crisis across Asia, general strikes in
Regarding the last 30 years
And so we go ever forward sentenced to make the best of what we find. The years pass and with their passing we may sometimes forget what we have won and lost. Yet, I cannot help feeling ...
— Is this going to
PADDY CRUMLIN is the Maritime Union of Australia assistant national secretary. He was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by ANA KAILIS and IGGY KIM. Question: Where does the dispute go now, after the High Court decision and the return to work?
It
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Under intense criticism, including from within its own ranks, the Queensland Liberal Party has hesitated over its plan to allocate preferences to Pauline Hanson's racist One Nation party ahead of the ALP. On May 8, the
By Sarah Stephen
PERTH — State MP Cheryl Davenport's private member's bill to remove abortion from the WA Criminal Code, which passed through the upper house last month, was finally passed by the lower house on May 7. It remains the Davenport
Burmese dictatorship targets students
By Jon Land
The military dictatorship in Burma announced on April 29 that it had sentenced six student activists to death. A statement released by the ruling State Peace and Development Council claimed that
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