By Dick Nichols
The latest Western Australian Maritime Union of Australia Rank-and-File Bulletin (number 3) is a special issue mainly devoted to letters from seafarers and retired MUA members. The issue provides a sharp insight into the issues that
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And I should know
Take your everyday unemployed person. Now there's a sight! Round shouldered, pig ignorant, doesn't know chalk from cheese. And surly! You wouldn't believe how surly! And they wonder why they can't get a job. According to them,
By Edwina Foster
The fashion industry might lead the way in cashing in on women's bodies, but the sports industry is close behind. Men's sport has always been taken more seriously and given more attention than women's. But recent efforts to
East Timor: independence now!
By Jon Land
The announcement by the Habibie regime on January 27 that it is prepared to "relinquish" East Timor as part of Indonesia marks a new turn in the struggle for independence. For the first time in the
By Norm Dixon
While the west is lauding the Nigerian military dictatorship's "transition to democracy", the regime has launched a campaign of murder and rape to crush an uprising by the peoples of the Niger River delta in the south. Led by militant
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Racism
GLW (January 20) quotes Acting Queensland Premier Jim Elder, commenting on a 14-year-old Aboriginal girl being locked up in a police watch-house for a week, saying "The simple solution is don't break the
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Academic freedom
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Responsible journalism is journalism responsible in the last analysis to the editor's own conviction of what, whether interesting or only important, is in the public interest." — Walter Lippmann,
Thousands mark Invasion Day
The capitalist establishment and mass media organised spectaculars throughout the country on January 26 to celebrate the uninvited arrival of a bunch of scruffy British naval officers, prison guards and convicts at
Correction
The review of the book Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age printed in the last issue of GLW was incorrectly attributed to Robert Hodder. The review was in fact written by Maree Roberts.
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