May 1 is May Day, and since the 1890s workers have marched and rallied on this day to demand better wages and conditions. All around the world, people will take to the streets to show that despite the austerity drive by conservative governments in
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ISTANBUL — The multinational oil company Shell has systematically polluted a huge underground reserve of drinkable water in an aquifer near the city of Diyarbakir in south-east Turkey, where up to 2 million people live, Greenpeace revealed at a
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — As Kate Carnell, chief minister of the ACT, begged the Legislative Assembly for an extra $14.2 million to fix the hole in the 1995-96 ACT budget, unions considered whether to reimpose industrial action. During the last few
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The decision to place the "Pinkenba Six" police officers on probation after an internal inquiry into their dumping of three Aboriginal boys at Pinkenba in May 1994 has been denounced by civil libertarians and the
Alliance offers New Zealanders a choice
A national conference of the New Zealand Alliance was held at Easter in Wellington. Here we reprint major excerpts from Alliance leader JIM ANDERTON's speech to the conference. We joined the Alliance to
By James Vassilopoulos and Nick Fredman
SYDNEY — In a historic united action, NSW teachers from state schools, TAFE colleges, independent schools and Catholic schools are set to strike on April 23. The central demand of the strike is for a 12%
By James Balowski
Indonesia's intention to go nuclear was made public as far back as 1992. But domestic and international concerns over issues such as safety, waste disposal and economic viability seemed at the time to have persuaded the government
By Rupen Savoulian
SYDNEY — Peter Perkins, a delegate from the Sydney sub-branch of the Public Transport Union (PTU), says that enterprise bargaining agreements have laid the basis for the corporatisation of the public transport system in New
By Dick Nichols
Industrial relations minister Peter Reith is refusing to talk numbers, but the Coalition government is clearly planning massive redundancies in the public service. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) believes that at least
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — A March 27 meeting here of 301 factory-based union presidents, representing 76,634 union members, launched a campaign to increase the take-home pay of workers by demanding the scrapping of income tax on workers. The
Workers join forces with Timor activists
By Barry Sheppard
Readers of Green Left Weekly have followed the struggle against the Indonesian military's occupation of East Timor for many years. But here in the US, this important struggle is not
By Norm Dixon
A representative of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) in Australia, Otto Ondawame, has called for the withdrawal of all Indonesian troops from West Papua (called Irian Jaya by Indonesia). He also criticised the Australian government for
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