Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in low-wage USABy Barbara EhrenreichGranta Books, 2002221 pages, $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"What am I doing here?", wondered the 50ish professional writer with a PhD in biology, Barbara Ehrenreich, as she
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BY BILL SMITH
The Papua New Guinea Catholic Bishops Conference on November 6 called on the PNG government to "respect human rights and accept the need to release the refugees from detention in Manus [Island]". The bishops said that the laws of PNG
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH — Left unity was the topic of discussion at a November 12 Socialist Alliance public meeting, attended by 40 people. The speakers at the forum included Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) district secretary Nikki Ulasowski,
Christmas parade for peace
LAUNCESTON — "Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all" — As the US and its allies plan for war on Iraq and asylum seekers in Australia languish in detention, this simple Christmas message couldn't be more relevant.
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Alan Wood, in his article "World's poor at the mercy of Europe" (Australian, November 12), argued that those protesting at the November 14-15 trade ministers' meeting sponsored by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) were
BY KARL MILLER
MELBOURNE — On November 2, the Socialist Alliance held a very successful dinner. Around 110 people filled the Flemington Community Centre to celebrate achieving electoral registration in Victoria.
Every party that was affiliated
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"The young of Australia will not be deterred from travelling in the years ahead... We will continue to live the lives that we regard as the birthright of all Australians." Prime Minister John Howard made these comments during the
And ain't i a woman?: Free Raihana Diani!
On November 7, Raihana Diani appeared for the third time in the Banda Aceh court house in Aceh, Indonesia. She is a 20-year-old university student studying to be a teacher. She was arrested on June 16,
MAPUTO — The structural adjustment program under way in Mozambique since 1987, with its privatisation of well over a thousand formerly state-run companies, has led to 120,000 workers losing their jobs, according to the country's largest trade union
BY SEAN HEALY
FLORENCE — It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance-era Italian city and tell them to discuss, in half a dozen languages, the
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