Adelaide
International Women's Day Collective meeting. Sat Feb 17 (& every Sat), noon-2pm. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, Nth Adelaide. Ph 8231 6982.
Women fighting for global justice against corporate tyranny. International
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Fighting for global justice
ADELAIDE — Twenty people attended a public meeting here on February 10, organised by the International Women's Day collective, to discuss the theme of the March 10 IWD march and rally, "Women fighting for global
In 1993 women contributed the monetary equivalent of more than US$11 trillion worth of unpaid household work to the global economy — equal to more than a third of the world's gross domestic product.
Today, 140 million Indonesians are living below
Adelaide: M1 Adelaide. Next organising meeting Thurs Feb 15, 6pm. 5th flr, Union Bldg, Adelaide Uni (Nth Tce). Ph 8231 6982.
Brisbane: May 1 Alliance meeting. Wed Feb 14, 6pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. Ph 3831 2644.
Canberra: Canberra
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 Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne community TV,
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Cuba as Alternative: An Introduction to Cuba's Socialist RevolutionBy Neville Spencer et. al.Resistance Books 2000116pp, $11.95 (pb)Order at <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm>
When the Soviet Union collapsed in
By Rachel Evans
If the status of women marks the success of a society, then global capitalism is clearly failing the grade. Women have always been capitalism's second sex, and globalisation has made conditions for women worse.
Globalisation is
BY MARTIN ILTIS
MELBOURNE — The local Brunswick community has reaffirmed its support for workers at the Chef whitegoods factory, holding a solidarity demonstration outside the factory on February 14.
Despite being profitable, the factory faces
BY OREN YIFTACHEL
On February 6, Israel elected its first settler prime minister. Premier-elect
Ariel Sharon, who gave his negotiators 10 days to forge a national unity
government with Labour, maintains an official residence in Old
BY MAX LANE
The Indonesian political elite is becoming increasingly fearful of a radicalisation of the country's masses, which is being provoked by a right-wing campaign to destabilise President Abdurrahman Wahid's government. It's turning to
By Lauren Carroll Harris
Everyday, women are oppressed by capitalist society's ideal of "beauty" and are told that what we look like is more important than what we think.
Meanwhile, millions of migrant women work in sweatshops, "honour" killings
You can bet on it
Have you ever wondered why, if we're doing so well, the country has a gambling problem? In terms of ockerism, perhaps you could dismiss it with references to two-up or the gee-gees. What could be more Australian than having a
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