'Unions need a political alternative'
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — Sixty people attended a Democratic Socialist Party forum on August 10 to discuss the state of the trade unions and strategies on how to rebuild the movement.
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By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The 11 miners buried underground after an explosion at the Moura No 2 coal mine on August 7, along with their suffering families, are the victims of the profit drive of BHP and other corporate mining giants.
Twinkletoes
Lion Theatre, Adelaide
Starring Carol Scarlan
Reviewed by Stephen Spence
Jennifer Johnstone's Twinkletoes is about "everything and nothing".
Carol Scarlan's strong performance of this piece for the Third International
ADELAIDE — An August 11 Adelaide university debate on women's rights to abortion, Resistance and the pro-choice campus clubs versus the "pro-life" group, ended abruptly when National Action forced its closure. National Action, an extreme right-wing
1500 rally for the forests
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Undeterred by driving rain, 1500 people attended the Gathering for the Forest in Forrest Place on August 9. The rally called on the federal government to stop woodchipping in old growth
PT launches Brazilian agriculture program
On July 24, the Brazil Popular Front, the coalition supporting the Workers Party (PT), launched its program for Brazilian agriculture — Land, Work and Food for Brazilians — in two regions with a
Repeal all anti-abortion laws!
By Kath Gelber
Actions were held around Australia in the second week of August to coincide with an National Day of Action for Reproductive Rights. The actions focussed on the bid to repeal all anti-abortion
A glimpse behind the figleaf
A good deal of the decisions that most affect our lives are made in secretive and confidential meetings by senior corporate executives — those with the power to invest, speculate, close down factories and
Police powers questioned after night club raid
By Scott Lewington
MELBOURNE — Forty armed police burst into popular city gay and lesbian nightclub, Tasty, on August 7, detaining 463 patrons and staff for up to three hours and strip
Greens contest Parramatta by-election
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — On August 27, voters in the state seat of Parramatta, once a piece of Labor's "heartland" and now a marginal seat, go to the polls. Some commentators estimate the outcome will
By Mairi Petersen
SHELLHARBOUR — For the past ten years the right-wing Labor-controlled Council here has been promoting a plan to destroy a 780-metre popular family beach at South Shellharbour near Wollongong by building a boat harbour.
Andrea Rieniets alive
By Penny Farrow
Adelaide-based artist Andrea Rieniets' Open Cheque Book Performance at the Proscenium on July 29 was a fundraiser to produce her own CD.
Andrea is accompanied by her computer which is programmed
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