Victory against Rio Tinto
By Alison Dellit
NEWCASTLE — Workers at Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley No. 1 coalmine have rejected management's Australian Workplace Agreement proposal in a secret ballot. The Construction, Mining, Forestry and Energy
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Taking on the bovver boys
Cleary, IndependentBy Phil ClearyHarperCollins, 1998. 298 pp, $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Phil Cleary, a product of a Christian Brothers schooling, could have been expected to know all about human sin and divine
By Sarah Peart
"When injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty." This is the theme of the 27th national conference of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, being held in Melbourne from July 11-13. "This theme really captures what
Five days of solidarity
Activists throughout Australia held actions in solidarity with the movements
for democracy in Indonesia and freedom in East Timor. The marches, rallies,
speak-outs and forums were part of five days of solidarity
By Jon Land
Indonesian soldiers continue to carry out brutal acts of torture, murder and arbitrary detention throughout East Timor. Many of the worst incidents have occurred in the town of Baucau and surrounding districts. The East Timor Human
By Yael
GIPPSLAND — The Goolengook forest, situated in East Gippsland, north-east Victoria is threatened by unsustainable logging practices. The only government study of Goolengook forest, conducted in 1991, recommended that, to maintain
Public works key to jobs, say socialists
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "A large-scale program of public works, including schools, child-care centres, public transport and leisure facilities, is the key to creating thousands of new jobs", the
By Eva Cheng
Pro-democracy forces won an impressive victory in Hong Kong's May 24 legislative council election, its first since the former British colony reintegrated with China almost a year ago. Beijing restricted the number of popularly elected
When the political becomes personal
Diving for PearlsBy Katherine ThomsonDirected by Adam CookWith Deborah Kennedy, Danny Adcock, Steve Rodgers, Cornelia Frances and Sacha HorlerEnsemble Theatre, KirribilliUntil July 4. Review by Allen Myers
Ramos Horta: support a referendum for East Timor
By Tuntuni Battacharyya
On May 25, 300 people gathered to hear Jose Ramos Horta speak at a meeting organised by the Amnesty club of the University of NSW. Horta described the invasion of East Timor
'We must not be deceived by Habibie's tricks'
Following is a slightly abridged version of a statement issued by the
banned PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY in Indonesia on developments in their
country. It was translated for Green Left Weekly by
By Sue Boland
Compulsory military service will be declared if an amnesty fails to bring back about 15,000 army deserters, Anuruddha Ratwatte, Sri Lanka's deputy defence minister, announced in early May. The government is threatening to impose
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