By Jorge Jorquera
QUITO — On November 23, thousands of Amazonians marched and rode on horseback into Ecuador's capital, as part of a nationwide march "against being forgotten". Their principal demand was that US$2 from every barrel of oil
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Indonesian generals unlikely to be punished for genocide
By Pip Hinman
Following a fact-finding tour to East Timor, Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has announced it will subpoena senior Indonesian generals, including
Wages lag behind profits, managers' pay
By Jonathan Singer
Wages are still falling relative to executive pay and profits. Afraid of "some resentment in the community" at the seven-figure annual salaries for managing directors of many
New Realism, New Barbarism: Socialist Theory in the Era of GlobalizationBy Boris KagarlitskyTranslated by Renfrey ClarkePluto Press, 1999166 pp., $38.95 Review by Allen Myers
This is the first of an intended three volumes aiming "to provide a
Life on the wharves
By Robert Darcy
SYDNEY — Everyone knows a story or two about how "lazy" and "unproductive" wharfies are. That's what I found out when I started work on the waterfront a few months ago. "Wharfies earn $100,000 a year for 12
'Where did the opposition go?'
By Richard Ingram
"What ever happened to the federal opposition? There was talk about one shortly after the 1996 election, but nobody's heard a peep out of anything that could be called an opposition for months now.
By Kerryn Williams
SYDNEY — The Marxism 2000 Asia Pacific Solidarity and Education Conference initiated by Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party will be a major forum for discussing youth and student issues and campaigns. Along with the
Speech's arrested development
HooplaSpeechTVT Records through Mushroom Review by Norm Dixon
In the early 1990s, an unpretentious and very political hip hop band briefly achieved worldwide popularity. Arrested Development starkly contradicted the
Members First wins good hearing in CPSU elections
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — Members First, a rank-and-file team making its first foray into Community and Public Sector Union elections, has performed well in contests in the Centrelink section
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