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Melbourne teachers achieve a victory

By Mary Merkenich MELBOURNE — Australian Education Union members at Mill Park Secondary College in Melbourne's north-west recently stopped an erosion of their working conditions. Mill Park is the second largest state secondary college in

Washington's hidden war on Iraq

Washington's hidden war on Iraq Imagine the United States is involved in its most intense air war since the 1991 Gulf War, and its most protracted since the Vietnam War. As it bombs its “enemy” many times every day, it kills several dozen

A history of Liberal attacks on student unions

By Sean Healy VSU didn't drop from the sky in 1993, when the WA and Victorian legislation was first floated. Rather, it has a 20-year history originating in attempts by right-wing students and governments to muzzle student organisations. The first

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Tas Uni VSU debate HOBART — Fifty people attended a fiery debate about "voluntary student unionism" at Politics in the Pub at the University of Tasmania bar on March 10. Anti-VSU speakers Nikki Ulasowski from Resistance, Chris Heppel from the

5000 rally for the WA forests

5000 rally for the WA forests By Marcel Cameron Perth — Five thousand people marched on Parliament House on March 9 to demand an end to the logging of old-growth forest in WA. The lively protest was called by the WA Forest Alliance, an umbrella

CFMEU accused of breaching Workplace Relations Act

CFMEU accused of breaching Workplace Relations Act By Michael Bull MELBOURNE — The Construction and General Division of the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Engineering Union (CFMEU) is facing two separate court

Xanana: 'political solidarity still needed'

On April 10, Green Left Weekly's MAX LANE spoke by telephone to East Timor resistance leader XANANA GUSMAO, who is still under house arrest in Jakarta. The telephone answered "Cipinang Prison" when I rang Xanana's house. Xanana had been imprisoned

Fight over water privatisation in South Africa

Fight over water privatisation in South Africa By Anna Weekes JOHANNESBURG — Attempts by the African National Congress government to privatise the water of Dolphin Coast municipality in kwaZulu-Natal province, in breach of a national agreement,

Ain't I a woman: Family values Alabama-style

Family values Alabama-style Feel like a little mechanical stimulation? If you're in the mood in Alabama, in the United States' deep south, lock the doors, turn the lights out, get under the covers and try to keep the noise to a barely audible moan.

Plumbers' union campaigns for increased apprentice wages

Plumbers' union campaigns for increased apprentice wages By Vannessa Hearman A year ago the Plumbing Division of the Communication, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) lodged a wage claim with the Industrial Relations Commission to increase

Fighting racism on the Cox Peninsula

By Mick Lambe COX PENINSULA, NT — People Against Racism In Australian Hotels (PARIAH) was created to expose and challenge escalating racism and bigotry here. This is one of the few places in Australia where indigenous people are still in the

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Overproduction Allen Myers' (rather esoteric) essay "Reinventing the Labor Party" (GLW #350) raised interesting points most of which I agreed with. He could have developed further the aspect of making "Australia" more competitive. With