'Reforming' children into hunger
By Barry Sheppard
By stating his willingness to sign the welfare "reform" bill passed with support from both Democrats and Republicans, President Clinton stepped into the vanguard of world leaders spearheading
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Coal miners are pressing ahead in a battle to force the government and coal companies to hand over wages that have gone unpaid from as far back as February. During the first week of August, more than 50,000 workers in
By Pip Hinman
While China has said it will undertake a nuclear testing moratorium from July 30, nuclear disarmament campaigners in Australia warned that the July 29 nuclear test at Lop Nor may not be China's last and called on all nuclear weapons
Knowing what's good for us
In late July, Australian columnist Judith Sloan — the employing class's Trojan horse amongst women — launched a spirited defence of the clauses in Peter Reith's industrial relations bill that deregulate part-time and
By Sandra Wallace and Neville Spencer
MEXICO CITY — From July 27 to August 3, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) hosted the first Intercontinental Meeting for Humanity and Against Neo-liberalism in the jungles of Chiapas in southern
By Barry Densley
As consumers, we implicitly trust food manufacturers and government to maintain appropriate safeguards to prevent food contamination. Australian health officials recently ordered an investigation of locally manufactured baby
Oh where, oh where has Labor's heartland gone?
By Dave Wright
SYDNEY — One hundred people gathered at the Balmain Leagues Club on August 3 to consider the question: Has Labor lost its heartland forever? The meeting was organised by the Balmain
The Social Worker
Years ago in Glasgow
callow youth
from troubled folk
and folks in trouble
I made my crust.
As Canutian agent
I turned no tides but
sometimes struck
a chord.
I recall a twelve year
young car rustler,
an
"Sometimes irony can be so socially constructive, as well as instructive, that it rises above even the highest court in the land." — Irving Elmer Bell
For the sake of irony here, try to imagine a Ku Klux Klansman who takes great pleasure in
By Kamala Emanuel and Melanie Sjoberg
Some 250 people attended a Who Cares About Child-care? rally in Newcastle on August 4 organised by Central Coast-Hunter Regional Family Day Care (FDC) to protest against the federal government's proposed
Fearful Suharto lashes out
By Max Lane
"At the present time, I think there's a strong interest in seeing an orderly transition of power there [Indonesia] that will recognise the pluralism that should exist in a country of that magnitude and
France blocks ban on toxic waste export
On July 28, Greenpeace announced that France is blocking a regional agreement that would ban the export of toxic and nuclear waste from OECD states in the Mediterranean to non-European Union countries of the
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