By Jeremy Smith
On August 20 the federal Industrial Relations Commission handed down an important decision on tenure and conditions for casual and contract staff working in tertiary education. Since 1995, the National Tertiary Education and
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"This special Green Left broadsheet has been produced as a response to the Gulf War. Coverage of the war by the mass media has highlighted the need for a real alternative source of news and analysis." Those words introduced Green Left Weekly to the
By Nick Soudakoff
CANBERRA — More than 200 people attended the Strategies Against Racism forum at the Workers Club in Canberra on August 23. The forum, coordinated by the Council for Civil Liberties of the ACT, the Ethnic Communities Council
Chinese dissidents denied rights
By Eva Cheng
Jailed dissident Wang Dan is suffering from severe pain, which doctors suspect is caused by a brain tumour, but officials have turned down Wang's repeated requests for a test. Wang is in weak
ACTU: rhetoric versus reality
This week the ACTU is holding its biennial congress in Brisbane. If previous congresses, and the agenda of this one, are anything to go by, delegates (very few of them from the grassroots of the union
By Adam Hanieh
RAMALLAH — Fighting has escalated in the last week in areas of southern Lebanon occupied by the Israeli army. Since August 20, Israel has launched four air strikes against forces fighting the occupation. This brings the number
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Since the days of perestroika, the US government, working through quasi-independent aid bodies and the main US labour federation, the AFL-CIO, has spent millions of dollars trying to fashion a new Russian labour
Not much change in the world
The Way of the WorldBy William CongrevePerformed by the Victorian College of the Arts School of DramaDirected by Robert DraffinGrant Street Theatre, VCA, MelbourneUntil September 6 Review by Bronwen Beechey
For
Is there a God?
Some thinkers — all locals, all of them conservative, some unruly — have confessed to discerning a striking resemblance between John Howard and the pope.
True, resemblances, there are. Both have other names. The
Comment by Peter Robson
Student unionism is vital to the protection of students' rights and education standards. For a union to be truly effective, it must be active and capable of voicing student opinions, and it has to be democratic. It's
Wall Street — How It Works and for WhomBy Doug HenwoodVerso, 1997, 372 pp. Review by Eva Cheng
The US-based progressive periodical Left Business Observer has for years been a valuable source of information and sharp analysis of the US economy
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm.
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