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BHP Coal faces protest as campaign continues

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — BHP Coal's head office here faces a protest by anti-corporate activists on March 16, who will act in solidarity with the struggle by BHP coalminers in central Queensland. As part of a campaign to expose "corporate

Mirotone tries to break 35-hour week

BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS SYDNEY — Paint company Mirotone has extended the lockout of its Queensland and NSW work force for another fortnight in an increasingly bitter campaign to break the 35-hour week and force workers out of the union and onto

Resistance in action

Resistance high school students' magazine focuses on M1 DARWIN — Following a successful first edition of Student Underground, which contained news on local International Women's Day events and East Timor solidarity, Resistance members here are

Loose cannons

@subh= Lucky only 5% us live in dwellings "Ninety-five per cent of the economy showed good strong growth, but it was the 5% of the economy, namely, the dwelling part of the economy [that had caused the contraction]." — Treasurer Peter Costello

Selling nationalism to rip off workers

BY TRISHA REIMERS Big Kev is excited — and he should be, because he's discovered that, just like sex, nationalism sells (in his case, sells cleaning products). Big Kev is just another Aussie capitalist who's telling workers that they should

Looking out:

Looking out: Ruddock's Racist Rhetoric “If you look at a generation, you are looking at all people of that age. The question is do you allege that all of a particular age were affected by these measures? The actual answer is no” — Philip

and ain't i a woman?: Sexism, Hanson & the media

The media coverage of Pauline Hanson has certainly built the following of One Nation. The media focus on Hanson during the lead up to elections in Western Australia and Queensland was astonishing. Following WA election night, the journalism in the

SOUTH AFRICA: 'Every day of delay costs lives'

BY DR COSTA GAZI [The following statement was written on behalf of the AIDS Babies Battling AIDS (ABBA) Trust by Dr Costa Gazi, the outspoken critic of South Africa's African National Congress government's policy of refusing to supply

On the box

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,

'Solutions, not persecution' for sex workers

BY SEAN WALSH MELBOURNE — The Port Phillip Action Group got more than they bargained for on February 25, when its "Resident Street Walk Against Street Prostitution and Drugs" through the streets of seaside St Kilda was met with 50

UNITED STATES: Rich get even richer

SAN FRANCISCO — The richest US citizens are paying a declining share of their income even as their incomes grow more rapidly than everyone else's does. Yet President George W. Bush announced a budget that includes a tax cut proposal that will give

Networker: Napster

Napster The new buzz word of the internet is P2P. This stands for peer-to-peer, and refers to the swapping of information between two people connected to the internet via their personal computers. P2P follows B2C (business to