Young & out of work A lifetime sentence to poverty? By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — "I met this lady who was going round asking everyone if they wanted a job. I said yes, and she gave me an appointment. I went up to the company and basically the
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By Sean Malloy Finishing high school used to mean the beginning of independence and determining how you want to live your life. Leaving school now means facing unemployment, debt and poverty. Those who leave school looking for a job will find
By Scott MacWilliam The need to rewrite the history of the last 10 years is becoming ever more urgent for sections of the Australian trade union movement. The need increasingly is being expressed in printed versions of "What's Wrong with the
Arab feminist group banned By Susan Mackie The international Arab Women's Solidarity Association (AWSA), based in Egypt, has been outlawed by the Egyptian government, according to the November 7 Human Rights Co-ordinator newsletter. The
By David Hall I was listening to the radio this morning. The Four Apostles — Matthew, Mark, Ringo and John — were singing "It was 20 years ago today ..." Well, maybe not exactly 20 years ago, and certainly not exactly this date, but you get
Nazism for beginners "The message of David Duke is this, basically: big government and anti-big government. Get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger: David
By Peter Boyle Question: How do you sell a tax reform that shifts more of the tax burden from the wealthy minority to the poorer majority? Answer: By making sure that everyone appears to get something more. This is the secret recipe for Dr John
By Jill Hickson and Camilo Jorquera On November 15, the FMLN of El Salvador declared a unilateral truce as a sign of good will in its negotiations with the Cristiani government. The negotiations, held in Mexico under the auspices of the United
Upstart "The Newstart program will basically force the unemployed to work for the dole", says James Basle, an activist in the Sydney Unemployed Workers Union. "In essence, the government will be subsidising the private sector with public money,
By Alexander Cockburn They said that the line in front of Lenin's tomb was longer than it had ever been — country folk visiting Moscow hurrying to catch a glimpse of the old fellow's embalmed remnants before they clear the mausoleum, pending
Timor, morality and human rights In its actions on East Timor over the past two weeks, the Hawke government has demonstrated just how hollow is its commitment to human rights, proclaimed so loudly earlier this year when George Bush was looking for
Mindarie sacred sites threatened By Leon Harrison PERTH — Aboriginal people are opposed to a new land fill dump at Mindarie which has threatened to disturb sacred sites. They say that the site contains a burial mound and Dreamtime tracks of
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