By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Twenty thousand striking car assembly workers took to streets in different parts of the country last week in support of demands for higher pay and the rapid elimination of race-based wage anomalies. Thousands of
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A Fate Worse than Debt
By Susan George
Penguin Books 1990 300 pp., $17
Reviewed by Jack Lance
In A Fate Worse than Debt George analyses the structure of global debt and its effects on all of us — the main ones being poverty,
Civil liberties under threat
By Jeff Sparrow
MELBOURNE — In what civil liberties campaigner Tim Anderson describes as "The most important political frame-up of the decade", the trial of the "Austudy Five" begins on August 29. The Austudy
RU486: extending women's choices
By Kath Gelber
The Catholic church in Australia has called for a halt to current trials of RU486, the so-called "abortion pill". The trials, taking place under the auspices of the World Health Organisation
ADELAIDE — An August 11 Adelaide university debate on women's rights to abortion, Resistance and the pro-choice campus clubs versus the "pro-life" group, ended abruptly when National Action forced its closure. National Action, an extreme right-wing
1500 rally for the forests
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Undeterred by driving rain, 1500 people attended the Gathering for the Forest in Forrest Place on August 9. The rally called on the federal government to stop woodchipping in old growth
Greens contest Parramatta by-election
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — On August 27, voters in the state seat of Parramatta, once a piece of Labor's "heartland" and now a marginal seat, go to the polls. Some commentators estimate the outcome will
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Picture the situation. An important economic bill drafted by presidential aides meets with strong opposition in the parliament. Efforts to find a compromise fail, and the bill is rejected by the lawmakers.
Then
Police powers questioned after night club raid
By Scott Lewington
MELBOURNE — Forty armed police burst into popular city gay and lesbian nightclub, Tasty, on August 7, detaining 463 patrons and staff for up to three hours and strip
WA Democrats expel members
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Thirteen members of the WA Division of the Australian Democrats were expelled at the end of July by the national executive. Those expelled included individuals on both sides of the
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