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  • Education workers score 'great win'

    Education workers score 'great win' By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — Following recommendations by the Industrial Relations Commission that the government release funds for extra staffing in schools and that the Australian Education Union

  • Stop VSU: we will not be silenced!

    Stop VSU: we will not be silenced! By Wendy Robertson On December 21, federal education minister David Kemp announced that the government would introduce "voluntary student unionism"(VSU) legislation in the next sitting of

  • National Action is racist, court rules

    National Action is racist, court rulesADELAIDE — The leader of National Action, Michael Brander, has lost a defamation action after a magistrate ruled that he is a racist. Brander's claim for damages over a 1995 column by

  • Injury highlights mine safety crisis

    Injury highlights mine safety crisisBRISBANE — On January 20, mining apprentice Brant North had both legs amputated in a horrific accident at MIM's Oaky Creek mine, about 350 kilometres north-west of Rockhampton. North is in a

  • Tamils protest Sri Lankan minister's visit

    Tamils protest Sri Lankan minister's visitCANBERRA — Australian Tamils and their supporters from Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney protested outside the Sri Lankan embassy and National Press Club on January 22. About 150 protesters

  • One Nation MP in row over CJC

    One Nation MP in row over CJCBRISBANE — Queensland One Nation MP Jack Paff has pledged to introduce bills to abolish the Criminal Justice Commission and its parliamentary watchdog, the Parliamentary Criminal Justice Committee.

  • Fight the System: join Resistance

    Fight the System: join ResistanceThe system sux — but the question is what are you going to do about it? Resistance is getting organised in the knowledge that people are more powerful collectively than on their own. Resistance

  • Textile workers force company to talk

    Textile workers force company to talkMELBOURNE After 50 days of being locked out, members of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) at the Australian Dyeing Company (ADC) have won a couple of victories in

  • Resistance provokes outrage

    Last year Resistance led the high school walkouts against racism. Here is what our opponents said about the rallies:   Shaun Nelson (Queensland One Nation MP): “Putting children into the line of fire ... is child abuse ... these

  • Students prepare to fight VSU

    Sydney — On January 17-18, around 150 students, a number of academics and staff gathered at the University of Technology Sydney for an anti-VSU ("voluntary student unionism") planning conference. The conference adopted four

  • Campaign against VSU debated

    MELBOURNE — On January 18, Victoria's Student Unionism Network (SUN) met. More than 40 student activists from a wide range of Victorian universities and National Union of Students (NUS) state and national

  • International Women's Day

    The first International Women's Day (IWD) was organised by women active in the socialist movement in the early 1900s. They wanted to set aside a day on which women could organise for their demands and celebrate their