REVIEW BY MARCEL CAMERON
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
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BY PETER BOYLE
SYDNEY — Seven radical left organisations — the Democratic Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organisation, the Freedom Socialist Party, the Workers League, the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (Australian branch),
BY JASON MARK
Eron Domingos de Rocha used to work in a shoe factory in the Franca district of Sao Paolo. He earned 220 reales a month there (about US$110) — not enough, he says, to "allow you to survive". Then he met an organiser with Brazil's
The Industrial Relations Commission has endorsed the ability of unions to collect a "service fee" from non-unionists who benefit from union-negotiated pay rises.
"Fee for service" unionism was adopted as policy at the 2000 ACTU national congress.
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — The Democratic Socialist Party's newly established Melbourne West branch is to open a new Resistance Centre in the city's western suburbs.
While there have been members in the west since the party was founded in
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Workers in the power stations and coal mines of the Latrobe Valley have launched a new division of their union, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, which will give them substantially more autonomy and
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — After eight years of attacks on workers' rights and living standards Western Australian Premier Richard Court's Coalition government is no more, swept from office by a backlash against its increasingly obvious
BY BERNIE WUNSCH
LISMORE — Recent heavy rainfall on New South Wales' north coast resulted in the flooding of the region. Lismore, Moree, Grafton and Coraki were under a metre of water. While the floods produced minor damage — and some fun for
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 NORM DIXON
Workers in Papua New Guinea have threatened to take action to have an increase in the minimum wage restored after it was revealed that members of parliament, ministers, judges and top public servants were secretly awarded massive pay
BHP fire crew strike
WOLLONGONG — Eighty Port Kembla fire, ambulance and security workers at BHP's Port Kembla mill went on strike for 24 hours on February 12, forcing the company to stand down 2000 steelworkers whose safety could not be
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — TAFE teachers set up a picket line outside Shellharbour TAFE College on February 15 to protest management's decision to close the innovative Engineering Flexible Training Centre. The teachers have vowed it will
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