BRISBANE — Queensland sugar industry workers walked off the job at midnight on October 31 in support of fellow unionists at MIM Holdings after an Industrial Relations Commission decision to reduce the number of unions covering the mining operations
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Hundreds of thousands of workers took part in nationally coordinated demonstrations on October 27, demanding that the government pay wage arrears and combat unemployment. In addition, workplace meetings and
By Zanny Begg
SYDNEY — In 1982 Alan Mills moved to Londonderry to find a peaceful plot on which to relax and grow native trees. Mills, who teaches maths at the local school, soon found that relaxing was the last thing he was going to be doing
With the novelty of the US troop presence ebbing and with President Aristide holed up in the National Palace, the hard reality and underlying purpose of the second US occupation of Haiti are becoming clear.
The Haitian people have begun to see
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Films banned for
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — Victor Hugo Tinoco is head of the International Relations Department of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). He was the Managua party secretary until the May congress, and previously served as deputy
Fire with water
By Melinda Jollie
Naomi Wolf, the respectable darling of liberal feminism, author of the 1991 best-seller The Beauty Myth and the recent Fire With Fire, will be speaking in Sydney later this month to espouse her "power
Peaceful penguins
"[The 1987 defence white paper] also forecast that any threat to Australia would most likely come from the north." — Sydney Morning Herald, November 1.
Demanding job
"I think it's true that the Westminster system demands
This week we received a letter from a subscriber. It reads:
"Dear Green Left,
"My subscription will be about up for renewal. I must abandon it. I do this reluctantly. Green Left Weekly is a first-class production, well laid-out, tightly
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald
By Michael Wreszin
BasicBooks, 1994. 590 pp., $45.00 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The US left has an unfortunately rich history of Trotskyist and other socialist
Indonesia denies visas to East Timorese
By Christine Faithful
DARWIN — A small group of Australian-resident East Timorese were refused visas to visit East Timor when they applied at the Indonesian Consulate here on November 4. The
Solidarity in Philippines
By Carla Gorton
MANILA — Amnesty International Pilipinas and Initiatives for International Dialogue, a Philippines-based NGO, organised an evening of solidarity for East Timor here on October 28.
The theme
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