Workers rally against Telstra fat cats
BY CLARA CONNOLLY
BRISBANE — Fifty Telstra workers rallied outside the telecommunications giants' Roma Street offices on May 10 to protest against 10,000 planned redundancies and the scheduled
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What are shares really for?
BY EVA CHENG
Supporters of capitalism often claim that shares are issued to channel "savings" for productive activities, which would otherwise be underfunded and "malnourished" causing the economy and jobs to suffer.
The loud complaints from the British Labour government and hysterical coverage by the international capitalist mass media have given undeserved credibility to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's populist claims that he suddenly intends to "resolve"
SAN FRANCISCO — The demonstrations in November-December in Seattle against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have rightly inspired activists in the labour movement. Many have commented on the coming together of youth and students concerned about
Serial satirist captured
Double Disillusion: Musings from a Rebel ComicBy Rod QuantockLothian Books, 1999229 pp., $19.95 (pb) By Phil Shannon
Inspector Mastiff of the Yarra turned up the collar of his gabardine coat as the wind whistled with
Security guards attack picketers
BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — Striking workers at Gordon and Gotch in Burwood have been bashed and intimidated by management's hired security guards in a dispute over an enterprise agreement. One worker was
Police attack Beverley blockade
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY & JIM GREEN
ADELAIDE — Protesters at the Beverley uranium mine in northern South Australia have vowed to continue their blockade of the site, despite violent assaults by police and private
SOUTH AFRICA: Misdirected strategy weakens workers' movement
JOHANNESBURG — The broad left (both in South Africa and internationally) has taken a cautious approach to critically analysing the program and activities of South Africa's largest and
PALESTINE: Teachers resume strike
RAMALLAH, Palestine — Palestine's teachers resumed a long-running strike on May 2 following the Palestinian Authority's (PA) failure to fulfill promises for wage rises for 25,000 teachers working in public
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — "The goal of our union is to create prosperity as a welfare state similar to that of Europe or the US", Indonesian union leader Muchtar Pakpahan told 50 unionists gathered in the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous
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