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Meeting defends maritime workers

By Sarah Harris SYDNEY — Eighty people gathered to express their solidarity with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) against attacks by the Coalition government at a May 30 meeting at the Teachers Federation. The speakers were Warren Smith,

One side of Raymond Williams

Raymond WilliamsBy Fred InglisRoutledge, 1995. 333 pp., $44.95 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon As Cambridge professor of drama as well as political activist, Raymond Williams, who died in 1988, truly earned the respect that most of the left have for

Australian companies in Burma

By Jamie Parkerand Maung Maung Than Big companies such as CRA and BHP come to mind as examples of multinational destruction and exploitation. Yet in Burma, smaller companies are playing a significant part in legitimising and resourcing the

Looking out: A durable fire

A durable fire "True love is a durable fire, the mind ever burning,Never sick, never old, never dead,From itself never turning." — Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) Despite their poetic brevity the four lines above say a lot in truth above love.