CPSU funding cuts
In July, members of the Community and Public Sector Union ACT branch rejected a proposal by the union's national officers that the national union take over the organising of major agencies currently covered by the ACT branch. In a
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Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform EraBy David ZweigME Sharpe, 1997. 365 pp., $45 Review by Eva Cheng
The title of David Zweig's book, Freeing China's Farmers, is consistent with one of its main underlying assertions — the
By James Vassilopoulos
SYDNEY — The Sydney Water Corporation announced on August 3 that the city's tap water was again safe to drink. Since July 30, nine days after the parasites giardia and cryptosporidium had been detected in Sydney's water
Regional area students
If you are interested in organising a walkout against racism in your region on August 28, get in touch with Resistance: phone (02) 9690 1230 or e-mail <resistance@peg.apc.org>.
By James Vassilopoulos
SYDNEY — On the night of August 6, two truck drivers attempting to break the picket line at Davids' Blacktown warehouse jumped out of their truck and assaulted picketers. One discharged a fire extinguisher at the workers
New left unity in the Philippines
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — The "State of the Nation" address is an important day
in the Philippine left's calendar, demonstrations being held outside the
opening of Congress in the new financial
SA workers to support anti-racism rally
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The South Australian United Trades and Labour Council has voted to call a two-hour stop-work on August 28, from 2 to 4pm, in solidarity with high school students walking out of
By Sue Boland
Despite the miles of newsprint and the hours of discussion on radio and television about the need for tax "reform" and the "need" for a goods and services tax (GST), there is deafening silence about the only genuinely equitable method
By James Balowski
Although military suppression of national liberation struggles in East Timor and West Papua are well known, equally violent incidents have occurred in the Indonesian province of Aceh, North Sumatra. With the military coming under
By Peter Boyle
Resistance's successful anti-racist campaigning among secondary students has been furiously attacked by several conservative newspaper columnists and by the editor of Sydney's Daily Telegraph, Piers Akerman, for "manipulating" and
Doing time for Jabiluka mine
By Adam Nelson
DARWIN — Protests against Jabiluka uranium mine are intensifying with more than 390 arrests to date at the Jabiluka blockade. Ten activists have been remanded in Berrimah Prison. Many others have
An invitation
Each month, distributors of Green Left Weekly organise fundraising events — dinners, film showings, band nights, jumble sales — to help keep the paper in production. Being a non-profit paper which campaigns against sexism, racism,
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