By Eva Cheng
In recent years, many countries have been trying to denationalise a significant part of their public assets. Imperialist countries have been doing it, as have Russia, China and a number of Third World countries. That process speeded up
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By Allen Myers
As part of its effort to smash the MUA, the government has claimed that the situation on the docks is exceptional. With absurd stories about wharfies making huge salaries for doing nothing, it tries to convince workers in other
Progressive party planned in South Korea
In the face of escalating attacks against jobs and workers' rights following the International Monetary Fund bail-out last November, progressive forces in South Korea have come together to plan the creation
Just do it, Nike!
By John Gauci
SYDNEY — According to the footwear giant Nike's "Informed Consumer Update", Nike's factory workers in the Third World sometimes earn more than doctors and engineers in their countries. As well, Nike's policy of
Sustainable Universities Month
By Francesca Davis
The National Union of Students' national environment department has named May "Sustainable Universities Month". A national campus-based campaign will highlight unsustainable university practices.
By Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — Every day since the sacking of the Patrick workers, East Swanson docks have been filled with picketers. The largest picket line runs down Appleton Road and has become a festival of protest and solidarity. Information
According to a statement circulated by the Rubina Jamil Working Women's Organisation (WWO) last week, on April 16 the All Pakistan Trade Union Federation offices in Kashmir Road, Guberg in Lahore were attacked without warning and demolished by
By Peter Montague
The destruction of life in the oceans has progressed farther than anyone had suspected, according to a new report in Science magazine (Daniel Pauly and others, "Fishing Down Marine Food Webs", Science Vol. 279, February 6, 1998).
Experience, not rhetoric
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Forty-four percent of Black teens who date said they [have] dated a White. Thirty-eight percent said they [have] dated a Hispanic, although, in this country, Whites overwhelmingly outnumber
BRISBANE — Some of Australia's leading social change trainers will be here May 1-4 for the Queensland environment movement's first conference dedicated to training environmental and social change activists. The conference, hosted by the Queensland
By Sarah Peartand Tom Flanagan
Opposition continues to mount against the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine inside the Northern Territory's precious Kakadu National Park. Defying the clear opposition of the area's Aboriginal traditional owners, the
More than 50 Indonesian activists disappeared
By James Balowski
According to an April 14 report released at a media conference by the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH), 50 Indonesian pro-democracy activists have disappeared since January.
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