BY ANTHONY BENBOW
AND MELANIE SJOBERG
Workers employed at BHP operations in WA's Pilbara region must be
feeling a bad sense of dj
vu. In January last year, they were
forced to fight to defend their jobs and hard-won conditions when
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Reprinted below is the introduction which appeared in the first thing ever printed under Green Left's masthead, its "issue 0", January 1991.
This special Green Left broadsheet has been produced as a response to the Gulf War. Coverage of the war by
BY PETER BOYLE
Activists in every capital city in Australia have begun organising
around calls for a worker-student strike and blockade of the stock exchanges
on May 1. The M1 coalitions have brought together veterans of the S11 blockade
The Democratic Socialist Party's 19th congress held January 3-7 unanimously endorsed the following statement in support of the Yallourn power workers.
The DSP pledges its full support for the Yallourn power workers in their struggle to keep their
BY NORM DIXON
On December 6, the Australian government released its long-awaited defence white paper, "Defence 2000 — Our Future Defence Force", to almost unanimous acclaim from ruling class commentators and the big business media's op-ed
BY KIM BULLIMORE
MELBOURNE — After much successful campaigning in New South Wales, the Indigenous Students Network has relaunched itself as a national network for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Corrie Hodson, a founding member
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XIIBy John CornwellPenguin430 pp, $22 (pb)The Catholic Church and Nazi GermanyBy Guenter LewyDa Capo Press416 pp, $38.95 (pb)
If Pope John Paul II has his way, the next newly minted
Is marriage doomed in the 21st century? asks Jane Smiley in "Money marriage & monogamy", in the January 6 issue of the Sydney Morning Herald's lifestyle magazine, Good Weekend.
Unlike anti-feminist Bettina Arndt's ravings which regularly grace the
BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN
NEWCASTLE — Mining company Colrock has followed in the nefarious tradition of National Textiles and Steel Tank and Pipe (STP) by sacking workers without paying them their entitlements.
Colrock, whose parent company is the
BY VIV MILEY
At 5am on the morning of December 19, Turkish military units stormed prisons across the country in a bid to force political prisoners to end a hunger strike. The operation, code-named "Return to Life", involved the use of machine guns,
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