BY MARCEL CAMERON
BRISBANE — "One hundred years of ALP control of the trade unions is enough" — Community and Public Sector Union delegate Jim McIlroy, who is the Brisbane secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party, told a May 18 seminar.
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John QDirected by Nick CassavetesWith Denzel Washington, Anne Heche, Robert Duvall and James WoodsAt major cinemas
REVIEW BY MARTHA GRUELLE
John Q is a drama about a man's love for his child and his desperate attempt to save the boy. But the
And ain't i a woman?: Fleeing domestic violence
Naima Khawar and her three children came to Australia from Pakistan on visitors' visas in June 1997. She applied for refugee status in September, because she had suffered 11 years of domestic
BY KAREN FLETCHER, JO WILLIAMS & JORGE JORQUERA
HAVANA — Former US president Jimmy Carter's historic May 12-17 visit to Cuba has highlighted the differences within the US ruling class over how to defeat Cuba's socialist revolution.
The wing
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry, headed by Terence Cole, was accused on May 16 of using secretly taped evidence to discredit construction workers and their unions.
John Cummins, Victorian
BY RATHEESH KALIYADAN
KERALA — Plachimada has never been singled out as a village that exemplifies the "Kerala model of development". It is a tribal area that is highly crowded with destitute people. Families own tiny plots of land. The only jobs
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — At the next Tasmanian state election, the word "socialist" will appear on ballot papers for the first time since 1976. The Socialist Alliance was registered by the Tasmanian Electoral Office on May 16 and is one of only
Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, mining and energy division, Tony Maher, Ramallah, SUE BOLTON">
Unions and the war in Palestine
Unions and the war in Palestine
BY SUE BOLTON
Israels
brutal
BY JON LAND
As the official festivities wind down in East Timor following the May 20 independence celebrations and the international dignitaries fly back to their comfortable and privileged lifestyles, a beckoning question for most East Timorese
BY AMY McDONELL
On May 13, the day before the federal government's budget was delivered,
students mobilised around the country to demand more funds for education
and social services. The national day of action was called by the National
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