News

  • El Salvador benefit evening

    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

  • Yallourn workers launch new union district

    MELBOURNE — Workers in the power stations and coal mines of the Latrobe Valley have launched a new division of their union, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, which will give them substantially more autonomy and

  • WA voters take sweet revenge

    PERTH — After eight years of attacks on workers' rights and living standards Western Australian Premier Richard Court's Coalition government is no more, swept from office by a backlash against its increasingly obvious

  • No Sweat Nora fights for outworkers

    MELBOURNE — With the dulcet tones of Dusty Springfield singing "Anyone Who Had a Heart" in the background, the Fairwear campaign launched its latest weapon in the campaign to end the exploitation of outworkers — a super hero by the

  • South Coast Labor Council elects new president

    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

  • Union support gives boost to M1

    MELBOURNE — Major industrial unions look set to back the planned May 1 blockade of this city's stock exchange and nearby corporate headquarters, which is continuing to pick up steam both here and around the country.

  • Action updates

    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

  • Calendar

    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

  • Socialist Alliance formed

    SYDNEY — Seven radical left organisations — the Democratic Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organisation, the Freedom Socialist Party, the Workers League, the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (Australian branch),

  • News briefs

    BHP fire crew strike WOLLONGONG — Eighty Port Kembla fire, ambulance and security workers at BHP's Port Kembla mill went on strike for 24 hours on February 12, forcing the company to stand down 2000 steelworkers whose safety could not be

  • Government back-down on nuclear waste plan

    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

  • Sydney socialists celebrate new outpost

    SYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance started the year off in a big way with a well-attended opening of the eastern suburbs Resistance Centre on February 3. Around 50 members, supporters and political activists