By Steven Hiatt A week before the US elections, the Democratic presidential ticket of Bill Clinton and Al Gore maintains a 15% lead in national polls over Republican incumbents George Bush and Dan Quayle, while the Ross Perot's revived
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By Patricia Horn "The United States will have a third party", says Tony Mazzocchi, a founder of Labor Party Advocates and secretary-treasurer of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. Is he right? Are the times right for a third party?
When the boss is a union What about the workers' workers? VHS cassette Reviewed by Rose McCann This excellent video captures the story of this year's industrial dispute between 34 clerical workers and the management of the NSW branches of
WOLLONGONG — A fundraising dinner for Green Left Weekly, organised by the Democratic Socialist Party on October 17, was attended by more than 80 people. Pictured in Margaret Perrott, DSP candidate for Throsby in the next federal election. Photo
Madonna: sexual revolutionary? "I think that, for the last 10 years I have been trying to empower women, mostly. In all my work, my thing has always been not to be ashamed, of who you are, your body, your physicality, your desires, your sexual
Vigil against blockade By Norm Dixon SYDNEY — Fourteen-year-old Kirrallee Gillespie, braving bitterly cold wind and rain, began a lone vigil outside the Papua New Guinea consulate on October 20. She has vowed to remain until PNG's consul
Brian Pinkstone Perils of Australian trade policy The prime minister's recent remarks in Japan regarding the need for Australia to line up with that country in any international trade war could be viewed as no more than a sensible reflection
WA Inc: more heads to roll? By Rurik Davidson PERTH — The WA Inc Royal Commission's first report, tabled on October 20, is a chronicle of corruption and deceit in high places. Three former premiers — Brian Burke, Peter Dowding and Ray
The Long Day Closes Written and directed by Terence Davies Kino, Melbourne, early December Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti Unlike his acclaimed and equally personal film Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), Terence Davies' The Long Day Closes,
Vic public sector plans strike MELBOURNE — A meeting of workers covered by state awards decided on October 22 to organise a 24-hour strike against the Kennett government's plan to replace the state award system with an individual employment
By Frank Noakes CHESTERFIELD, Derbyshire —"The campaign for peace and justice begins here tonight", left-wing Labour Party MP Tony Benn told a crowd of 10,000 protesters in the market square on the cold Saturday night of October 17. At the
This tribute to the memory of Jim Percy was written by Peter Camejo, a long-time social and environmental activist in the United States who is now a member of the national executive of the Committees of Correspondence. Jim Percy lives in the
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