By Mary Merkenich
MELBOURNE — Australian Education Union members at Mill Park Secondary College in Melbourne's north-west recently stopped an erosion of their working conditions. Mill Park is the second largest state secondary college in
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New relevance in a long debate
Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Leninist CritiqueBy Doug LorimerResistance Books, 1998. 80pp. $6.95 Review by John Nebauer
After Lenin, Leon Trotsky was the foremost leader of the Russian Revolution. His
Remodernising Russia: the role of the left
BORIS KAGARLITSKY interviews ANATOLY BARANOV. A left journalist, Baranov in 1996 came under attack from the authorities in the Moscow municipality, after an article he had written for the newspaper Pravda
CFMEU accused of breaching Workplace Relations Act
By Michael Bull
MELBOURNE — The Construction and General Division of the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Engineering Union (CFMEU) is facing two separate court
By Keara Courtney
The Labor Party, in contrast to the Liberals, sometimes tries to portray itself as an anti-nuclear party as a way of winning votes from the anti-nuclear and environmental movements. However, the ALP's real record gives the lie to
Marxist feminism
By Kathy Newnam
"The general level of emancipation of a society is indicated by the level of emancipation of its women." This statement, drawn from the studies of Marx and his close collaborator, Engels, holds as true today as
By Mick Lambe
COX PENINSULA, NT — People Against Racism In Australian Hotels (PARIAH) was created to expose and challenge escalating racism and bigotry here. This is one of the few places in Australia where indigenous people are still in the
WA plans boot camps for addicts
By Stuart Munckton
PERTH — Western Australia's Liberal government is considering using "boot camps" to deal with the drug problem in the state. Under the plan, a heroin addict convicted of a criminal offence
How can we stop the logging?
[The following is abridged from a statement being circulated in Western Australia by Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party.] More than 80% of Western Australians want an end to the clear-felling of old-growth
By Kylie Moon
PENRITH — Sydney's urban sprawl is relentless. One proposed project is at the 1535-hectare Australian Defence Industries (ADI) St Marys site, bordering Penrith and the Blue Mountains. The site, the largest remaining tract of