Union boycott of Campbells soups
By Bronwen Brook and Adam Leeman
MELBOURNE — A spirited meeting of 70 mushroom pickers employed by Campbells Pty Ltd was held in the Bundoora region on February 9.
The workers, mostly women, discussed
Issue 176
News
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Thousands of workers marched through the city on February 15 to express their frustration and anger at the Brown Liberal government's proposed changes to the workers' compensation scheme, Workcover.
The
Rally defends health system
by Janet Parker
SYDNEY — One thousand pensioners, health and community workers from across NSW rallied here on February 11 against the dismantling of the public health system.
A lively contingent from the
By Chris Martin
Released last week, the federal government's review of its five-year National Aboriginal Health Strategy has added more detail to the picture emerging from various state studies of a permanent and deepening Aboriginal health
Environmentalists 'must relate to workers'
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Green Left Weekly spoke to Bill Ethell, secretary of the Construction, Mining, Energy, Timberyard, Sawmillers and Woodworkers Union (WA CFMEU) about the woodchipping
World
Across India, more than 40 million children work in industries making such products as bangles, fireworks, matches, carpets, glass, hosiery and leather.
British companies in Amazon mahogany rip-off
Friends of the Earth revealed on February 13 that British companies are continuing to buy mahogany that has been illegally cut from the Amazon rainforests of Brazil.
Official Brazilian government
By Brian Metcalfe
LONDON Ireland's February 15 soccer fixture with England at the Lansdowne Road stadium in Dublin was abandoned after rioting organised by fascist groups. When Ireland scored the first goal after 22 minutes, English fans
By Frank Eckardt
HO CHI MINH CITY — Nguyen Rithy Ti is one of a small but increasing number of street children here. He says he left his family two years ago after he had trouble getting along with the grandmother he was sent to live with when
By Tom Griffiths
Havana — Some 5000 educators from all over Latin America, including school teachers, academics and Ministry personnel, attended the biannual educational conference in Cuba, "Pedagogia 95", February 6-10.
Co-Sponsored by
By Norm Dixon
MADRID — "In Spain we are living in the final part of a period that began in 1982, when the Socialist Party [PSOE] came into government. In the beginning, people had many illusions, many hopes for change. Those illusions are
In a surprise address televised on the evening of February 9, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon announced that he had issued orders to arrest several leaders of the rebel Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
Zedillo said
Japanese whalers hunting in sanctuary
Greenpeace has caught the Japanese whaling fleet hunting whales in the newly created Antarctic whale sanctuary.
The crew aboard the MV Greenpeace found the fleet in the Southern Ocean for the third time
By Mikael Karlsson
In international neo-Nazism today, there are two major positions, the "first position" and the "third position".
The first are political parties like National Front in Britain, Front National in France, the Republicans in
Culture
World Orders, Old and New
By Noam Chomsky
Pluto Press, 1994 311 pp., $34.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"The roots of policy lie deep in firmly established institutional structures of power". Chomsky's latest expedition to uncover the
Poem: How to write headlines that will sell the paper
By Rosemary Evans
Pregnant Nun Accused of Arson
_> Drunk MP Drives Over Bridge
Prostitute Shoots One-Legged Parson
_> Headless Body Found in Fridge.
Goldie Hawn Weds Boris
Dancing on the Edge
Los Bobos Cosmicos
Self-financed release through Disculture
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This is the first release by a new distribution company, Disculture, that specialises in promoting "self-dependent" artists — artists
They also serve
Clerks
Written and directed by Kevin Smith
Opening in March at the Kino, Melbourne
Reviewed by Chantal Wynter and Kelly Jean
Clerks is a hilarious film by 24-year-old first time director Kevin Smith. Based on the
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — WOMAD '95 (in Botanic Park, February 24-26) promises to be a more exciting and diverse event as its reputation grows on the international music scene. The International Year of Tolerance and beginning of the
Malcolm X: Make it plain
Three-part documentary, screening February 23, March 2 and March 9 at 8.30pm (8 South Australia) on SBS
Reviewed by Chris Martin
This new documentary is a fascinating and comprehensive look at the life of Malcolm X
Gatton Man
By Merv Lilley
McPhee Gribble. 194 pp., $17.95
Reviewed by John Tognolini
"I'm past seventy. I was, in a sense, born with a task. I was born twenty-one years after the event. I am the only person left on earth who could write
Editorial
Hypocrisy on refugees
Targeted at Indo-Chinese refugees, recent amendments to the legislation covering Australia's migrant intake smack of hypocrisy and disregard for human rights.
In response to the arrival of several hundred