BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — In an effort to get back in the black, bankrupt Daewoo Motors confirmed on February 16 that it will proceed with the sacking of 1785 workers. This follows the sacking of more than 3500 in recent months. In response, the
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International Women's Day Collective meeting. Sat Feb 17 (& every Sat), noon-2pm. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, Nth Adelaide. Ph 8231 6982.
Women fighting for global justice against corporate tyranny. International
BY JIM GREEN
Federal industry and science minister Nick Minchin announced on February 8 that the Howard government no longer intends to co-locate a store for long-lived intermediate-level radioactive wastes alongside the planned underground dump
BY MARTIN ILTIS
MELBOURNE — The local Brunswick community has reaffirmed its support for workers at the Chef whitegoods factory, holding a solidarity demonstration outside the factory on February 14.
Despite being profitable, the factory faces
By Anne O'Casey
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" asked feminist science fiction writer Ursula LeGuin. Her literary explorations of extra-terrestrial worlds make a vivid commentary on the inhumane state of our society.
McNews: Would you like lies with that?
BY MARCEL CAMERON
For the past week Green Left Weekly's dedicated bands of street sellers in Melbourne have had competition from an unlikely source on this city's street corners. Scores of teenagers in blue
REVIEW BY MARCEL CAMERON
Cuba as Alternative: An Introduction to Cuba's Socialist RevolutionBy Neville Spencer et. al.Resistance Books 2000116pp, $11.95 (pb)Order at <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm>
When the Soviet Union collapsed in
The January release of the Tiananmen Papers — the purported leaked documents and transcripts of important top-level meetings of China's leaders concerning the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre — appears to be aimed at discrediting President Jiang Zemin before he steps down from two of China's three most powerful positions.
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — Peter Wilson, a local organiser for on the NSW Teacher's Federation, was elected unopposed as president of the South Coast Labor Council. Wilson replaced Mike Dwyer, who was forced to resign due to ill health.
The
BY SEAN HEALY
Under concerted attack from increasingly vocal protest movements on its left flank, the International Monetary Fund may now face a new threat from its right flank — in the form of the new US administration of President George W.
BRISBANE Latin American entertainers came out on February 3 to support
the survivors of the January 13 El Salvador earthquake. The benefit was
organised by Australia Aid for El Salvador and supported by Committee in
Solidarity with
By Lauren Carroll Harris
Everyday, women are oppressed by capitalist society's ideal of "beauty" and are told that what we look like is more important than what we think.
Meanwhile, millions of migrant women work in sweatshops, "honour" killings
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