By Larry Douglas
On July 26, 1993 the San Francisco Labor Council voted to oppose the US blockade of Cuba and endorsed the US Cuba Friendship Caravan which is delivering supplies to Cuba.
The council, which represents trade unions
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Neil Murray
Aurora Records through Festival
Reviewed by Ignatius Kim
It must be firm evidence of the anarchic nature of the market oriented recording industry when a singer-composer like Neil Murray has difficulty obtaining
By Hugh Williamson
Japan's economic boom of the late 1980s has run into trouble. Workers are the first to bear the burden — lower wages, higher unemployment, worsening working conditions, and so on.
Wage increases agreed to late March
July 31 marked the 72nd anniversary of the South African Communist Party. After it had been outlawed for 40 years, 50,000 people attended the public launch of the SACP as a legal party, outside Soweto in July 1990. Since then its membership has
By Anthony Brown
A Brisbane solicitor specialising in immigration law has called on the federal government to replace its policy of detaining undocumented boat arrivals with a supervised release program.
South Brisbane Immigration and
The Australian Medical Association and the Colleges of Paediatricians and Obstetricians have commissioned an "Inquiry into Foetal Welfare" by the Faculty of Law at the Australian National University. The primary aim is to determine guidelines of
Call to 'ground Garuda'
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — On August 6 the Campaign for an Independent East Timor (CIET) held a protest vigil outside Garuda airlines highlighting the gross human rights violations of the Indonesian
Old sexism: new perspective
In the United States, about a year ago, the prisoners at the Georgia Women's Correctional Institute, in Hardwick, Georgia, brought a civil suit against that institution. The prisoners allege that the institute's
Unemployment and NESB
Unemployment, especially for mature aged people who have always had a job, is particularly difficult to cope with; but if you come from a Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) and find it difficult to communicate and
By Dave Riley
Rural Australia, not renowned for subtle language, generated a bumper sticker a few years back. "Eat more meat, you bastards!", it read. "Ten thousand dingoes can't be wrong!"
Crudely put, but the farmers had a point.
By Shush Mula and Shlomo Tsazanah
JERUSALEM — In the centre of the city, children between the ages of 8 and 14 are working in a child slave market. It's the Mahane Yehuda market. The children, residents of East Jerusalem, work there every
By Michael Tardif
Labor promised a "business as usual" education policy at the last federal election, and if current proposed cutbacks are any indication, they intend to remain true to their record. Having already destroyed free education,
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