School bursar dispute continues
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — Locked-out school bursars met with ACT education minister Bill Stefaniak on August 3 and came away empty handed. Stefaniak maintained he would have a proposal for the Community and Public
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Web site launched for imprisoned South African poet
By Norm Dixon
The Campaign for the Release of Mzwakhe Mbuli has a launched a web site to publicise the case the renowned artist. Mbuli is known as South Africa's "people's poet" for his daring
Venting my spleen
I cannot claim to possess oodles of imagination. But I have my moments. Sometimes I can envisage such bizarre delights that I can entertain myself for hours. Perhaps I really am a creative type person. An artist. A political
Lamentable
"I would lament that." — Richard Butler, former head of the UN Special Commission on Iraq, replying to a magazine interviewer's question about whether the US government used the commission to spy on Iraq, something that Butler used to
They jail trade unionists in Indonesia
Last week, Green Left Weekly's MAX LANE spoke to Indonesian labour leader DITA SARI, who was released from jail on July 3 after serving three years of a five-year sentence for organising workers to fight for
The following is abridged from a statement by the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). US trade unionists demonstrated outside Texaco's Washington office on July 30 to protest against labour and human
By Vannessa Hearman
DILI — Pro-independence forces and United Nations Assistance Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) workers are very confident that the referendum in East Timor on autonomy or independence, now scheduled for August 30, will go ahead
Inside the Celtic Tiger — The Irish Economy and the Asian ModelBy Denis O'HearnPluto Press, London1998, 216pp. Review by Garret Mullan
"Dublin is the new Paris" was the title of a recent article in the Observer newspaper. Ireland is a centre of
By Chris Sitka
People in the progressive left usually claim to be anti-racist. Therefore, I was appalled by the blatant racism of a large group of socialist women at the recent National Organisation of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) held in
Burmese students remember August 8
By Sean Healy
August 8 is the 11th anniversary of the 1988 uprising in Burma. On the 8/8/88, the entire country rose up against the corrupt and brutal regime of General Ne Win, in power since a military coup in
By Jonathan Singer
Protests called by the ACTU against Reith's "second wave" of anti-union laws ("A Bill to amend the Workplace Relations Act" — WRA) have begun, with rallies in Perth on August 10, Adelaide on August 11 and Melbourne on August
By Alex Bainbridge
HOBART — Thirty people protested against the reactionary policies of John Howard's Coalition government during a federal cabinet meeting here on August 3. The lively action contrasted with the larger but very tame salmon
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