By Nick Fredman
LISMORE — Around 150 staff members of Southern Cross University (SCU) rallied on July 15 during a two-hour stoppage to demand a better offer from SCU management in enterprise bargaining negotiations. Union members were visibly
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SPP founding congress
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — The founding congress of the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (Socialist Party of Labour — SPP) was held on June 18-20. The congress opened with a rally and march, throughout which the SPP
By Jon Land
The United Nations Assistance Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) is in a severe crisis. Faced with enormous security and logistical problems, UNAMET has been unable to ensure the conditions necessary for a fair and free ballot —
Wins and losses in public transport campaign
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — The campaign against the M5 East motorway and its gigantic emissions stack planned for Turella has suffered a setback with the loss of a Supreme Court appeal against a Land and
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — A July 7 Victorian Trades Hall Council-organised meeting of about 1000 union delegates passed a resolution calling for a "sustained campaign" against the federal government's "second wave" industrial relations
Medicare
As an unemployed and part-time student, I am extremely concerned about the Howard Government's clandestine plan to eradicate Medicare.
It states in the Autumn public policy magazine that there will be a gradual removal of health care —
Palestinian woman speaks
By Penny Gillard
MELBOURNE — On July 7, Hanan Ashrawi, formerly a Palestinian national authority minister for higher education, spoke at the World Trade Centre on a number of issues facing the Palestinian national
'Let those who persecute be ashamed!'
MEXICO — The following is an abridged version of a statement issued by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation's (EZLN) Subcomandante Marcos on the eve of Mexico City's 21st Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
The 'Vietnam syndrome' is alive and well
By Barry Sheppard
The end of the air war against Yugoslavia was met by a subdued response from the US people. There was no feeling of celebration as there was when the 1991 Gulf War ended. The Gulf War was
$5000 fine for protesting
HOBART — Environmental activist Sara Bayne is refusing to pay a fine of more than $5000 for participating in a forest protest last year, even though this means she is likely to go to jail.
Bayne was one of hundreds
By Marta Russell
Disabled one day, next day you're not — that appears to be the outcome of a recent US Supreme Court ruling which has all but defined away "disabled". The judges decided to deny a group of disabled workers access to the US federal
By Maria Voukelatos
Last week, the United Nations released a report stating that global inequalities in income and living standards had widened to grotesque proportions, with the richest 20% of the world own 86% of the world's gross domestic
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