By Trisha Reimers
More than 50% of US garments are made in sweatshops. The vast majority (up to 90%) of sweatshop workers are women. In Australia, there are more than 300,000 outworkers. These outworkers are paid a few dollars an hour, or a pitiful
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German Greens
Congratulations to the very well-informed articles by Jim Green about the rotten German Greens. I almost wrote a letter in regard to his first article (GLW #444) because I felt that some enlightenment about the deeply bourgeois nature
Sexism and racism
"nigger, n. 1. Disparaging and offensive. a. a black person. b. a member of any dark-skinned people. 2. to criticize in a peevish way; carp... -niggler. n." — Webster's College Dictionary.
The "n-word": I find it so offensive
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Revelations from the troubled ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) indicate that the Australian Public Service is becoming increasingly de-unionised.
CPSU members in Canberra were astounded to see
BY BRONWYN JENNINGS & TRISHA REIMERS
The collapse of insurance giant HIH, the relocation of an Arnotts factory from Melbourne to Brisbane, and rumours of plans by retail company Target to relocate its head office from Geelong to Melbourne have
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — As George Bush escalates the new Cold War begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" are again appearing in the US
@box text intr = The Honourable Philip Ruddock, John Howard's minister for racism, plumbed new xenophobic depths this week with his full-frontal assault on a Joint Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs report on conditions in detention
BY KYLIE MOON
Behind closed doors in its Geneva headquarters, out of view of the public eye, the World Trade Organisation is currently negotiating the expansion of GATS, the General Agreement on Trades in Services. The product of extensive
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Engineering Union organised a protest outside the South Korean consulate on June 20, in solidarity with the Korean Construction Transportation Trade Union, which organises
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — "We were sacked for joining the union of our choice, a union which would actually stand up for our rights, not sit with management", says factory worker Linh Nguyen of the bitter dispute at Metroshelf, in Sydney's
BY SEAN HEALY
Queensland and federal police and the Australian Defence Force are readying for one of their largest-ever domestic operations: to protect the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which is being held in Brisbane in October.
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REVIEW BY SIMON BUTLER
The Red North: Queensland's History of StruggleBy Jim McIlroyResistance Books, Sydney 200129 pages, $3.50
Communist parliamentarians, armed rural uprisings, revolutionary soviets — this is hardly the history of Queensland
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