NTEU strikes to 'stop the rot'
By Andy Gianniotis
WOLLONGONG — Academics at the University of Wollongong struck on October 26-28 to protest against the erosion of working conditions and quality of higher education. The strike, dubbed "Stop the
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The revolution capitalists still fear
By Allen Myers
"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism", wrote Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in the Communist Manifesto in 1848. The same spectre continues to haunt the entire capitalist
Can the market plan?
In information technology, few issues appear as boring as telecommunications policy and the related field of electromagnetic bandwidth (the internet equivalent of TV and radio airwaves) allocation. To keep the subject dull, its
Pangea unwelcome in Perth
PERTH — Four hundred people attended a Pangea Unwelcome rally, held at the Esplanade here on October 27. The midday rally, across the road from Pangea's new office, was organised by the Anti-Uranium Coalition of Western
Performance pay takes a tumble at ANTA
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — The practice of paying performance bonuses rather than wage rises in the Australian Public Service was dealt a small but significant blow recently. Staff in the Australian
By Jon Land
On October 25, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution adopting the proposal by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the creation of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). It is expected that
On November 6, under pain of a $50 fine, we will all be marched off to the polling booths to vote on whether Australia is to become a republic. The absence of popular excitement is deafening, and with good reason: the choice before us has been
Indonesian trade union seeks legal recognition
Indonesia's economic crisis has, over the last two years, dramatically increased levels of unemployment and reduced the capacity of Indonesian workers to meet basic living costs. At the same time, the
By Lilliam Riera
Cuba's favourable geographic position, with little change in the sun's intensity from January to December, permits it to tap a clean and renewable energy source throughout the entire country equivalent to 20 billion tons of oil
ACT cuts college funding
By Nick Soudakoff
CANBERRA — Secondary colleges in the ACT plan to cut courses and student services, and increase class sizes, because of a $1.8 million funding cut by the ACT government. Canberra's eight colleges
By Melanie Sjoberg
The national officials of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), threatened by a rank and file ticket in the union's elections, have resorted to rumour-mongering in an effort to protect their cosy bureaucratic niche. The
A timely look backwards
Stop Uranium Mining! Australia's decade of protest, 1975-85By Greg AdamsonResistance Books, 199947pp., $4.95 (pb)Available at Resistance Bookshops, or send payment (plus $2 postage) to PO Box 515, Broadway 2007 Review by
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