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Organising students and youth in the PhilippinesA new socialist youth organisation called the Ligang Sosyalistang Kabataan or Socialist Youth League (LSK) was launched in the Philippines late last year. The Philippine student

MELBOURNE — In a decision handed down on January 27, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission found that Mervyn Vogt was unfairly dismissed from his job with Telstra, and ordered his re-instatement with back pay. Vogt, a

MELBOURNE — The Student Unionism Network held a teach-in on fighting voluntary student unionism on February 3. The final plenary session was a discussion about strategies for fighting the government's attack on student

Gough Whitlam: * Supported Australia's intervention in Vietnam in 1965. * Met Suharto over dinner during his first year as Indonesia's president. During that year, up to 1 million people were massacred. Decades later, Whitlam still referred to

Thousands expected for anti-Jabiluka rallyADELAIDE — Thousands of people are expected to turn out for the anti-Jabiluka uranium mine rally planned to coincide with the WOMADelaide festival on February 21. The rally will start at

It's time to uncover the real WhitlamHave you ever been in the middle of a free education rally and heard someone yell out from the crowd "Bring back Gough"? To some, former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam personifies the

Life after Patrick: back to the 'hungry mile'? GRANT HOLDEN is a job delegate at P&O Ports, West Swanson Dock, in Melbourne. He was interviewed by SUSAN PRICE for the February 5 Friday Breakfast Show on Melbourne community radio 3CR. The

SYDNEY — More than 4000 teachers braved pouring rain to rally outside Sydney's Town Hall on February 9. The action was part of a statewide one-day strike called by the NSW Teachers Federation to pressure the Labor and Coalition

Marina Carman, Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Port Jackson in the March 27 NSW election, warned on February 13 of more protests against Sydney Airport before the Olympics. "Yesterday's announcement by transport

By Anthony Benbowand Bronwen Beechey ADELAIDE — For the last 12 months, the Olsen Liberal government has been trying to privatise the state Electricity Trust (ETSA). A community and industrial campaign has so far thwarted Olsen's plan to ram the

Correction In last week's Green Left Weekly the article on the resignation of Queensland MUA organiser Jeff Langdon contained the following sentence: "Langdon claimed the branch leadership did not send copies of his resignation letter to ships

SYDNEY — Not long after she was elected leader of the NSW Liberal opposition, Kerry Chikarovski told the Sydney Morning Herald that she "believes in a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy safely, because New South Wales