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
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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
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>.
Korean workers offer wage cuts to save jobs
By Eva Cheng
On August 6, the occupation by about 3000 workers of Hyundai Motors' key plant in Ulsan entered its 18th day. Hyundai Motors is South Korea's biggest car maker. The workers are trying to
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
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
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
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 Jim Green
Behind the federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor lie a set of national interest/security arguments. Essentially, the government wants to maintain a pool of nuclear expertise in order to monitor nuclear
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
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,
Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes, Waterfront Leader Edited by Tom BrambleVictoria University PressAvailable from One World BooksBox 68-419, NewtonAuckland NZe-mail <books@oneworld.org.nz>NZ$36 (includes postage) Review by
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