By Cherry Winters
MELBOURNE — Workers at the Campbellfield Nestle factory remain on the picket line after 12 weeks of being locked out. The workers belong to the confectioners division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU). Workers
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As poverty, wars and systematic human rights abuses around the world continue to create thousands of new refugees every day, over the last few weeks the Coalition federal government has signalled moves to significantly restrict Australia's refugee
New plays launched
BRISBANE — Lucky Hearts cooperative theatre group is presenting a new venture in alternative theatre from April 25 to May 18 at 588 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba, opposite the Mater Hospital.
Shadowboxing, a one-person
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 Mark Cronin
BRISBANE — About 50 people attended a picket against racism outside the office of the federal minister for Aboriginal Affairs on April 16. The picket was called by members of the Community and Public Sector Union and endorsed by 20
The good fight of Elvis and Marilyn in cyberspace
A short story by Craig Cormick
She altered my life. And when she found me, I was sitting alone in my room in my underpants, with a large file before me, hacking at my profile. It's true. It's all
By Mike Karadjis
The merciless bombing of Lebanon by Israel has again, as in 1993, resulted in the flight of 500,000 people from their homes in the south, while hundreds have been killed and wounded. According to medical authorities nearly all are
By Stephen Marks
The mural along the back wall of the national office of the Dominican Communist Party is painted by prominent artist Silvano Lora. It depicts the people's history of the Dominican Republic. It starts with a portrait of the former
[The pesticide endosulfan is used extensively to protect cotton crops in Australia. The following report from the Pesticide Action Network North America Updates Service documents serious problems with endosulfan in the United States.] In August 1995,
By Joshua Wilson and Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — As part of its campaign for freedom in East Timor and an end to the Indonesian occupation, the socialist youth organisation Resistance held a speak-out in Gawler Place on April 12. Passers-by stopped to
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
By Dave Wright
SYDNEY — Ten thousand people demonstrated on April 20 against the renewed bombing and continued occupation of southern Lebanon by the Israeli government. The rally was organised by the Lebanese Australian Solidarity Committee with
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