Grosby workers demand jobs
By Ray Fulcher and Rachel Evans
MANILA — A picket of workers retrenched by the Australian-owned company Grosby GTP Footwear has been encamped outside the factory in southern Manila since losing their jobs on
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Jervis Bay victory
By Jon Land
The federal government announced on April 20 that it will not go ahead with plans to relocate the East Coast Armament Complex (ECAC) at Jervis Bay on the NSW south coast. The state government has also proposed
By Tyrion Perkins
SYDNEY — "Resource Security Sucks" read the banner over a demonstration against the state government's proposed Timber Industry (Interim Protection) Amendment Bill. About 200 people attended the demonstration, organised by
Harassment, not pornography
On April 21 the WA Equal Opportunity Tribunal awarded a $92,000 in damages to two women construction workers. The women complained of harassment by their workmates who made sexually suggestive comments, verbally
US environmentalists oppose GATT
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US environmental groups have announced their opposition the Uruguay Round Agreement of GATT because it lacks measures to protect the environment and promotes policies that will contribute to
Where the Boys are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left
By Van Gosse
Verso, 1993. 270 pp., $49.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
On January 1, 1959, the Batista-Mafia alliance that ran Cuba fell under the weight of its own
NSW forest assessment challenged
The North East Forest Alliance has strongly criticised the April 14 announcement that the NSW State Forests environmental impact statement program will be "upgraded". NEFA described this as a token attempt to
Telecom halts work at old brewery site
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Telecom has halted cable-laying at the old Swan Brewery site. The brewery, built on Aboriginal religious ground in the 1890s and virtually given to Multiplex Constructions
A Season Inside God's Bunker: The Story of the Hebron Massacre
By Micha Peled
SBS TV, Tuesday, May 3, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Nikolai Haddad
This documentary is a chilling look at life in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba,
By Emma Webb
(Continuation of a debate)
Diana Evans (Green Left, April 13) says that in my earlier article I put the environment at the end of what she refers to as a wish list of human needs (health care, education etc). Contrary to this, she
DSS staffing dispute
Robert Johnson
BRISBANE — The ongoing dispute over jobs in Social Security looks set to escalate.
Management has unveiled plans to axe jobs in a number of offices in Queensland. Twenty-four jobs have been
By Michael Karadjis
The impression that Greeks are unanimously behind the Greek government in its campaign against Macedonia has been widely fostered in Australia, by both the Greek media and the establishment media. The reality is vastly
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