BY TOM WILSON
HOBART — Forestry Tasmania should change its name to Jackboot Tasmania, if its recent antics are anything to go by. In its latest move, the authority has resorted to unlawful threats and intimidation in a desperate attempt to cover
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BY NORM DIXON
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) have escalated the violent harassment and repression of their critics. Mugabe faces a presidential poll in 2002. He will be
The Industrial Relations Commission has endorsed the ability of unions to collect a "service fee" from non-unionists who benefit from union-negotiated pay rises.
"Fee for service" unionism was adopted as policy at the 2000 ACTU national congress.
BY NORM DIXON
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has accused the British and US governments of "shifting the goal posts" by refusing to honour a deal to lift UN sanctions against Libya.
Mandela told the February 9 London Independent
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
Adelaide
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 MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — Principals, teachers and local residents met at Woonona High School on February 13 to organise the a campaign to defend public education funding in the federal seat of Cunningham.
Following the announcement of the
Fighting for global justice
ADELAIDE — Twenty people attended a public meeting here on February 10, organised by the International Women's Day collective, to discuss the theme of the March 10 IWD march and rally, "Women fighting for global
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
BY JASON MARK
Eron Domingos de Rocha used to work in a shoe factory in the Franca district of Sao Paolo. He earned 220 reales a month there (about US$110) — not enough, he says, to "allow you to survive". Then he met an organiser with Brazil's
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