Peace deal splits Bougainville independence movement
By Norm Dixon
A "permanent and irrevocable cease-fire" between the Bougainville Interim Government/Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BIG/BRA), the Bougainville Transitional Government and its
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Workers First sweeps AMWU elections
By Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — The Workers First team in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union elections won positions in Victoria won by significant margins. Frank Fairley was elected state secretary;
Netherlands meeting launches Indonesia solidarity group
Netherlands meeting launches Indonesia solidarity group
By Margaret Allan
AMSTERDAM — Just hours before the resignation of Suharto was announced, 130 people attended a public meeting on
Unloved
Dear Diary,
I have been so down to it since Wednesday. Can't sleep. Can't eat. Don't know what to do with myself ... It's getting so that each day is just so darn hard to get through.
Dear diary, must it come to this? Must your dear
By Jeremy Smith
For more than two years, the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) has campaigned to restrict the use of contract staff in post-secondary education. On May 11, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission endorsed the
East Timor
May 20 was the 20th anniversary of the formation of Fretilin. There could have been few more appropriate events to mark Fretilin's struggle for freedom and justice in East Timor than the forced resignation of Indonesian dictator
A politician's conversation with an asylum seeker
You want what!To stay in Australia?You reckon you're a refugeebecause Indonesia invaded your countryand you fled across the Timor Sea?Brothers murdered,sisters raped,mother jailedand father
In a shock move today, the federal government ordered troops on to the waterfront of the national capital, Canberra. Workplace relations minister Peter Reith announced that the judges of the High Court, on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, were to
Joke of the week
Modern management practice has just added new insight to an age-old question: When we have a half glass of water, is it half empty or half full? Down the ages it was answered thus: half empty if you were a pessimist; half full if
Comment by Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — The International Socialist Organisation (ISO) is presently touring Giles Ungpakorn around the country. Ungpakorn is billed as a visiting Thai socialist, speaking on "The Asian crisis and the struggle for
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