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Queensland coal strike suspended

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Striking unionists at the Dalrymple Bay coal loading terminal near Mackay voted on June 21 to return to work from June 23, to allow a hearing by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to proceed on their demand to

Unemployment benefits loan scheme?

By Carla Gorton The Howard government's plans to shift the cost of social spending from government to individuals will bring about a major increase in the personal indebtedness of low income earners. Students got a taste of this user-pays approach

Why are Victorian police so violent?

By Kim Linden MELBOURNE — "Victorians Under Siege? The Case for an Inquiry into the Victorian Police", a report by the police issues group of the Federation of Community Legal Centres, examines policing under the Kennett government since its

Left On-line

New additions to the Marx/Engels Internet Archive (http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/) — The text of the following Marxist classics have been transcribed for access from the M/E Web site: Lessons of October by Trotsky (1924); Capital Vol. 3,

Bougainville braces itself for PNG attack

By Norm Dixon The Papua New Guinea government is openly preparing a major military offensive against strongholds of the pro-independence Bougainville Revolutionary Army in the island's central and southern regions. Port Moresby has told villagers

Loose cannons

Efficiency "An evacuation of small island nations threatened by rising sea levels might be more efficient than forcing industrialised countries to reduce emissions ... [said the] executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and

An eloquent novel of war and human values

Novel Without a NameBy Duong Thu HuongTranslated by Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPhersonPicador, 1995. 289 pp., $16.95Reviewed by Brendan Doyle Author Duong Thu Huong was 21 when she led a Communist Youth Brigade to the most heavily bombarded front of

Looking back on the Tiananmen Square massacre

On June 4, 1989, troops, armoured personnel carriers and tanks of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) forced their way through human and constructed barricades into central Beijing, taking control of Tiananmen Square. In the process, according to an estimate by Amnesty International soon afterwards, approximately 1000 unarmed protesters were gunned down or otherwise killed.

Numerous eyewitness accounts confirmed the extent of the massacre.