It's time to be offensive
COMMENT BY DALE T. MCKINLEY
"If you're not angry, you're not paying attention" — anonymous It's disgustingly consistent. Open the newspaper, turn on the television or radio, access the internet and you are more than
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BY GEORGIA CLARK
SYDNEY — "The first Mardi Gras in 1978 was a political protest at which many came onto the streets to fight for queer rights, and experienced police brutality and vilification in the media simply for fighting for our right to
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Interest rates
Why have interest rates been going up?
One argument is that as rates rise overseas Australia must follow suit to access an adequate supply of the world's savings. This is a bad argument.
The
UNITED STATES: Appeal from a militant unionist
CALIFORNIA — John Reimann was a member of the Carpenters Union for almost 30 years. He has just been expelled for life from his union. Reimann served as recording secretary for Local 713 of his union
Mosh with a message
Mark MarkHeiferAvailable from <http://surf.to/heifer>GlisterGlister4-track CDAvailable from <http://fly.to/glister> Review by Barry Healy
Triple J listeners will be familiar with western Sydney mosh masters
Motives! Chantes de Lutte (Songs of Struggle)TactikollectifLCR-TactikollectifAvailable from Resistance Bookshops (addresses page 2) Review by Stan Demidjuk
Motives!, in French, means to be or become motivated and on this CD it means "Mobilise!".
"The Australian government should immediately impose the comprehensive sanctions on trade, shipping, travel, mail, banking and sporting links on Fiji called for by the Fiji Trades Union Congress. They should be maintained until the 1997 constitution
BY DAVE ANDREWS
FREMANTLE — A new shift roster, introduced on a trial basis for permanent waterside workers employed here by P&O Ports, has angered many in the container division. The workers have been suffering erosion of their working
The wolf's teeth
Unions in a Contrary World: the Future of the Australian Trade Union MovementBy David PeetzCambridge University Press, 1998243pp., $34.95 (pb) Review by Jonathan Singer
Unions in a Contrary World is an academic yet readable book
Support the right to organise
On May 29, the Federal Court fined two union officials $20,000 each for refusing to apologise to the court after being found guilty of contempt.
The court had earlier found Dean Mighell and Craig Johnston, both
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