BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — After months of union and community pressure, tin mining company Renison Bell, located on Tasmania's west coast, finally agreed on July 12 to conduct an assessment of the risks associated with its 56-hour weekly work
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An Evergreen IslandFrontyard FilmsMade by Mandy King and Fabio CavadiniScreening on SBS, 7.30pm Saturday, July 28
REVIEW BY MARK ABBERTON
In 1989, the people of Bougainville closed down one of the world's largest copper mines, which was reaping
SYDNEY — In a big boost to the Socialist Alliance's NSW Senate campaign fundraising, a dinner attended by more than 100 people in Marrickville on July 14 raised more than $1250. It was the first major fundraiser organised by the seven Socialist
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I amin prison but i refuse to be drivenaway from the good to be done;i have risen and now my soul listensto hope's drums — change has comeI am
Today I had a talk with one of the staff members. He informed me that someone had called the
Some 300 right-wing paramilitaries from the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) seized control of Peque municipality in the northern central region of Antioquia department on July 4 and ordered residents to leave by July 7.
The
By Stephen Marks
US government officials have reacted with hostility to the possibility that Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) may be re-elected president of Nicaragua on November 4.
US ambassador to Nicaragua,
BY SEAN HEALY
Fearful of the country's deepening economic crisis, Wall Street bond traders have demanded, and received, dire austerity measures from Argentinian President Fernando de la Rua in a bid to ensure that the debts owed them will be paid
Democracy and RevolutionV.I. LeninResistance Books, 2001222 pages, $18.95
REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Resistance Books' Democracy and Revolution represents a new effort by this publisher. Previous additions to its Resistance Marxist Library
Blatant sexism and gender stereotypes in action films are not new. Nor are unbelievable feats of daring unexpected in your average action flick. Predictable and tacky plots along the lines of the film Tomb Raider's "dutiful daughter fights to fulfill
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — Staff in the Illawarra's 13 TAFE libraries, incensed at threatened job cuts and casualisation, have launched an industrial and community campaign to save the public education service they proudly deliver.
The
BY EWAN SAUNDERS
BRISBANE — The Queensland Council of Unions has backed a proposal for a march the day before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting begins here on October 6, but has refused to back a planned "people's unity march" on the
BY STUART MARTIN
WOLLONGONG — "If the Socialist Alliance is going to gain the confidence of working people, we have to make a firm commitment to our policies. It's not enough to have a great platform, we have to be supporting these campaigns."
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