CPSU protest
CANBERRA — Members of the Community and Public Sector Union protested against the Liberal government's cuts and privatisation of the public service outside the "Innovations in Public Service" conference on February 25. Industrial
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Swaziland union leaders freed
By Norm Dixon
@box text intro = As the pro-democracy general strike in Swaziland is set to enter its second month, workers celebrated the release of four senior leaders of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions on
By James Balowski
For the second time in two weeks, the armed forces' chief of social and political affairs, Syarwan Hamid, has accused the People's Democratic Party (PRD) of being behind the riots which have been rocking the country over the last
@details 3 = TelekGeorge Mamua TelekOrigin through MDS
Review by Norm Dixon
It has been a long wait for those who were captivated by George Telek's Australian recording debut way back in 1991, when his collaboration with Melbourne-based Not
By Pip Hinman
The celebrated "failure" of a media stunt in John Howard's NSW electoral office, organised by Friends of Hinchinbrook a few weeks ago, raises some interesting tactical issues for the environment movement. A protest against the Federal
Campaigns against fees
SYDNEY — Students achieved two small victories against the introduction of up-front fees last week. The council of the University of Technology Sydney met on February 27 to discuss a proposal charge up-front fees for up to
By Trish Corcoran
The women's movement of the 1960s and '70s had a profound impact and extended opportunities in virtually every aspect of women's lives. It is now much more accepted that women can have a career, that they don't have to spend their
Suppression StoriesBy Brian MartinFund for Intellectual Dissent, 1997. 171 pp. Review by Allen Myers
Brian Martin, an occasional contributor to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, has produced an intriguing and very readable account of the suppression of dissent in
Russian budget-cutters court environmental disaster
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Sergey Mund, the director of the Elektrogorsk Institute for Oil Processing, was clearly worried. On his institute's premises just east of Moscow were 663 rods of
Four minutes after their strike began at 12:01am on February 15, American Airlines pilots were ordered back to work by President Clinton under an especially reactionary labour law, the Railway Labor Act (RLA). This law authorises the President to
British socialist leader speaks in Melbourne
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the British Socialist Party (formerly Militant Labour), spoke at a public forum here on February 24. More than 90 people filled the meeting
By Norm Dixon
"The team that we have hired to train our security force members are not cowboys; they are a reputable professional company, who are part of our many-faceted strategy to reach a lasting solution to this particular crisis", PNG
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