Police attack Joy Mining picket
BY CHRIS LATHAM
MOSS VALE — Police forcibly removed people from a picket line at the Joy Mining heavy machinery manufacturing plant on April 27 to allow the removal of the plant's hydraulics workshop equipment.
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Live cattle trade blocked
BY MARGARET SETTER
Prompt action by a newly formed alliance between Animal Liberation, the Maritime Union of Australia and the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union has, for the moment, defeated plans by Elders
ZIMBABWE: MDC, farm workers Mugabe's real target
Despite the populist rhetoric of President Robert Mugabe — seemingly bolstered by the criticisms and exaggerations of the British Labour government, the Western mass media and, in Australia,
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — Students at Melbourne University have had a resounding victory over the right-wing dominated Student Council. Over three days from April 17, students approved four referenda proposals, by margins of up to 90%, to
UNITED STATES: Elian's rescue a blow to 'Miami Mafia'
ATLANTA — Almost five months after he was found adrift on the high seas near Florida, six-year-old Elian Gonzalez has been reunited with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, at a resort near
BY VIV MILEY
SYDNEY — Protests around the globe, from Seattle and Washington to Jakarta and Bolivia, have highlighted growing discontent with corporate "globalisation" and imperialism. From June 29 to July 2, the socialist youth group Resistance
The talking cure
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
Both the ALP and the Democrats have focussed on the "flying nanny squads" of the federal government's nine-point "Stronger Families" plan. This is a mistake. The allotted sum, $65.4 million over four
SRI LANKA: Unity in opposition to war
The Sri Lankan government of Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga was elected in 1994 on a promise to withdraw the Sri Lankan armed forces from the Tamil homeland and achieve an "honourable" solution to the
Maritime College locks out academics
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Academic staff were locked out of the Australian Maritime College (AMC) in Launceston on April 20 and April 26 in response to industrial action by the academics' union. This was
Coober Pedy says no to radioactive waste dump
BY KATE DECKLEMAN
COOBER PEDY — The Coober Pedy Against Radioactive Waste Repository Committee and the local Aboriginal women elders, the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, joined together to demonstrate at
RUSSIA: Down with the new code of slavery!
MOSCOW — The following call for solidarity, issued last month by the coordinating committee of the All-Russian Campaign in Defence of the Labour Code, is addressed to "all progressive organisations of
JAKARTA — April 15 marked the first anniversary of the establishment of an extraordinary organisation, the Indonesian Institute for the Study of 1965-1966 Massacre (YPKP). Its chairperson is Sulami, who was second secretary-general of Gerwani (the
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