UNITED STATES: Elian's return home a step closer
UNITED STATES: Elian's return home one step closer
A ruling by a US appeals court on June 1 may mean that kidnapped six-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez, forced to remain in the Unites States, may
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UNITED STATES: Training Indonesian terrorists in 'anti-terrorism'
The following is a statement presented by United States journalist ALLAN NAIRN to the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Human Rights on May 11. Mr Chairman and members of
World Bank's pipeline to disaster
BY SEAN HEALY
Having given up on getting the World Bank to comply with even its own environmental and social development policies, 200 non-government organisations from 55 countries have called for the
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — On June 2, NSW teachers overwhelmingly endorsed an agreement on salaries and status recommended by the NSW Teachers Federation (NSWTF) executive, ending a long and bitter industrial dispute with the state Labor government
The following is abridged from an account of the situation in Mindanao distributed on May 29 by the Revolutionary Workers Party of the Philippines. The situation in Mindanao, and the Philippines as a whole, is becoming worse, politically and
Tales of workplace violence
A Kind of Violence - Australian workers and workplaces
By Yossi Berger
The Vulgar Press, 1999
Review by Ben Courtice
Yossi Berger has written a detailed account of health and safety conditions
Internationalism in the new century
Links number 15New Course Publications, May 2000127pp. $6.50 By Allen Myers
The latest issue of Links, the "international journal of socialist renewal", features Marxism 2000, the second Asia Pacific Solidarity
Brisbane Resistance Centre launched
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
BRISBANE — The room swayed to the melodies of the Cuban Revolution while celebrants feasted on Cuban food at the launch of the new Resistance Centre here on May 27. Forty people answered
International news briefs
Argentine unions protest IMF austerity
More than 80,000 people marched through Buenos Aires on May 31 to protest against a government economic austerity plan. Argentina's trade unions have called a one-day national
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE & KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — Tasmania's Labor premier Jim Bacon has rejected calls for state public servants to have access to three months' paid maternity leave. The calls came after state education minister Paula Wriedt's
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