BY CAM PARKER
SYDNEY — Federal communications minister Richard Alston has told the ABC to "cut its cloth" to cover the shortfall in government funds for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He said the ABC should drop some of its "esoteric"
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Striking workers attacked
Striking workers at plastics manufacturing company PT Mepoly, near Surabaya in East Java, were attacked by hired thugs and police on November 1. The company employs some 600 workers, 50% of whom are women.
Two trucks
The following Palestine solidarity actions were confirmed as of November 5. Further actions may be called in your city. For more information, contact your nearest Resistance Centre (details on page 2).
ADELAIDE — Action planning meeting. Wed Nov
An opportunity for Aboriginal children?
What makes a boat float? Children from Philadelphia School District spent part of this past school year at the Philadelphia Wooden Boat factory attempting to find the answer to that question. — messing
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
SYDNEY — The 70 people who attended a seminar entitled "The Communist Party of Australia: Lessons for the 21st Century" on October 22 agreed that an anti-capitalist movement can be built: the September 11-13 (S11) protests in
S11 and M1
Janet Burstall (Write On, GLW #426) suggests that it would be better for the S11 movement to focus on actions against specific global corporations instead of making its major next focus the proposed M1 (May 1) global strike against
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
Globalization: Neoliberal Challenge, Radical ResponsesBy Robert WentTranslated by Peter DruckerPluto Press170 pp, $42.80
With Ernest Mandel, the respected Marxist economist, as one of its founders, the Amsterdam-based
BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT — The largest union meetings in the history of the University of Ballarat have supported a proposal for a campaign of industrial action. Meetings at the School of Mines and the Mt Helen campus on November 2 brought
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I'd like to apologise to all you young people out there for my previous dose of spirituality. While I now wholeheartedly recommend dialectical materialism (look it up!) as the way to go, in hindsight my remorse rests primarily on my daily
The final part of a three-part eyewitness report on the protests against
the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting in Prague, in September,
by Russian socialist BORIS KAGARLITSKY. Parts one and two were printed
in GLW issues #425
While BHP's proclaims that "prevention is better than cure", the company is pressing ahead with investigations into dumping in the ocean wastes from the proposed Gag Island nickel project, 150 kilometres west of West Papua in Indonesia.
In 1996,
Companies operating in the oil and natural gas rich Timor Gap include some of the largest multinational and Australian-based energy corporations. Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, US-based Phillips Petroleum and Australian players such as Woodside Energy and
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