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Despite their partial victory won in the Industrial Relations Commission last week, the workers at Weipa remain on strike, determined to stay out until equal pay for equal work is the certain result of their six-week struggle. Green Left Weekly's
By Shane Hopkinson In early October CRA merged with its parent RTZ to form the largest mining company in the world with an estimated $14 billion in assets. The company also has big investment plans — to the tune of $750 million in Queensland alone
With the agreement signed at Dayton air force base, Ohio, the US has managed to achieve the ethnic division of Bosnia — something that Serbia hadn't managed in three and a half years of bloody fighting, despite the West's policy backing ethnic
By Dave Holmes "The dominant impression of the massive international jamboree that marked the 50th anniversary of the United Nations", wrote Martin Walker in the November 5 Guardian Weekly, "was the extraordinary degree of resentment that the
By Peter Montague The attack on the environment by so-called "conservatives" in Congress has caused a radical re-thinking throughout the environmental community. People are recognising that they must stop working alone and start building alliances.
By Kevin Jardine or Mary MacNutt TORONTO — When France and China tested nuclear weapons this year the Canadian government expressed official "regret". However, PM Jean Chretien's effort to sell the Chinese government two nuclear reactors completely
MY FRIENDS — I'm setting forth upon a journey I'm not fleeing, I am searching For the side that will be fighting What I fear. I wish that I could stay here A moment longer, Hug you all a little harder For I know soon I must leave you On my quest.
Tom Paine: A Political LifeBy John KeaneLittle, Brown and Co, 1995, 644 pp., $48.95 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Thomas Paine was cheered by millions of common folk back in the 18th century. He wrote what were perhaps the three political best-sellers
By Brendan Greenhill BRISBANE — In a letter given to 4ZZZ, a group of low security prisoners have alleged that they receive worse treatment than murderers, armed robbers and child molesters. The fine defaulters at Westbrook Correctional Centre,
By Eva Cheng The recent Osaka heads of government summit of the 18 nations in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group was widely hailed as a success. While the meeting achieved little of substance, it revealed a major conflict of interest
Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical PoliticsPolity Press, 1994. 276 pp.Reviewed by Neville Spencer To most socialists, a title such as Beyond Left and Right, would signal a dosage of fatuous small "l" liberalism. The author of this book
This new dyke video-zine is planned to come out every two months, as a fundraiser for Community Access Technology's equipment drive. It's a low budget community production, and is on sale for $10 at Black Rose, Half a Cow and the Bookshops, Sydney.