Slavery
George Bernard Shaw is famous for saying that under socialism no-one would be allowed to be poor. Guild socialist G.D.H. Cole, when asked what was the greatest evil, responded: not poverty, but slavery.
It is tempting to remark that the
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Comment by Zanny Begg
SYDNEY — Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) was established to organise against attempts by the Liberty Christian Ministry (LCM) to hold a "Coming out of homosexuality" conference here on September 25. The conference
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — Early in September, the main theme of political forecasts in Russia was the supposedly imminent resignation of President Boris Yeltsin. Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of Yeltsin, however, regarded all this
'Take today what tomorrow never brings'
Review by Leigh Hughes
The Battle of Los AngelesRage Against the MachineEpic Records through Sony After a long absence, Rage Against the Machine has blasted back onto the political music scene with its
By Chris Spindler
GEELONG — After six days on the picket line, 10 workers at the Geelong site of Metalcorp Recyclers won the right to be recognised as a union site and to take action on health and safety concerns. They achieved an enterprise
Comment by Sue Boland
Most Labor Party voters at the last election hoped that the ALP would resist the Coalition agenda. Instead, the Labor "opposition" is preparing a deal with the government to pass its package of corporate tax cuts. The
By Alex Robinson
BRISBANE — Activists picketed the Law Courts here on October 25 about homophobia in the legal system after two men convicted of bombing the Townsville Aids Council office were sentenced to only nine months in prison. Joanne Ball,
Unionists 'living underground'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Unionists on October 27 held a picket outside a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the federal government's second wave workplace relations bill, being conducted in the City Hall
Kumarangk demonstration planned
By John Nebauer
ADELAIDE — Activists opposing the building of the bridge to Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) are planning a series of peaceful actions, following a green light to construction work given by the courts
Performance pay takes a tumble at ANTA
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — The practice of paying performance bonuses rather than wage rises in the Australian Public Service was dealt a small but significant blow recently. Staff in the Australian
Public service anger over performance pay bonuses
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — Staff in the commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care will soon be voting on their next certified agreement. An unpopular attempt to introduce performance pay
On October 29, thousands of women and their men supporters took to Australia's streets in Reclaim the Night marches. Reclaim the Night was started in the 1970s by women in England who were told by the police to stay inside after a string of violent
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