Korean workers offer wage cuts to save jobs
By Eva Cheng
On August 6, the occupation by about 3000 workers of Hyundai Motors' key plant in Ulsan entered its 18th day. Hyundai Motors is South Korea's biggest car maker. The workers are trying to
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By James Vassilopoulos
SYDNEY — On the night of August 6, two truck drivers attempting to break the picket line at Davids' Blacktown warehouse jumped out of their truck and assaulted picketers. One discharged a fire extinguisher at the workers
SA workers to support anti-racism rally
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The South Australian United Trades and Labour Council has voted to call a two-hour stop-work on August 28, from 2 to 4pm, in solidarity with high school students walking out of
Doing time for Jabiluka mine
By Adam Nelson
DARWIN — Protests against Jabiluka uranium mine are intensifying with more than 390 arrests to date at the Jabiluka blockade. Ten activists have been remanded in Berrimah Prison. Many others have
By James Balowski
Although military suppression of national liberation struggles in East Timor and West Papua are well known, equally violent incidents have occurred in the Indonesian province of Aceh, North Sumatra. With the military coming under
By Jim Green
Behind the federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor lie a set of national interest/security arguments. Essentially, the government wants to maintain a pool of nuclear expertise in order to monitor nuclear
By Peter Boyle
Resistance's successful anti-racist campaigning among secondary students has been furiously attacked by several conservative newspaper columnists and by the editor of Sydney's Daily Telegraph, Piers Akerman, for "manipulating" and
An invitation
Each month, distributors of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly organise fundraising events — dinners, film showings, band nights, jumble sales — to help keep the paper in production. Being a non-profit paper which campaigns against sexism, racism,
Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes, Waterfront Leader Edited by Tom BrambleVictoria University PressAvailable from One World BooksBox 68-419, NewtonAuckland NZe-mail <books@oneworld.org.nz>NZ$36 (includes postage) Review by
On July 24 and July 28, in the largest secondary student action of its kind in Australia's history, more than 14,000 students walked out of class and publicly demonstrated their opposition to racism and the policies of the One Nation party. It was
Population policy: no answer to environmental problems
By Francesca Davis
Opposition leader Kim Beazley on August 3 responded to the focus on immigration occasioned by Pauline Hanson and One Nation by renewing the ALP's call for a population
Burmese rally for democracy
CANBERRA — More than 400 Burmese and their supporters protested outside the Burmese embassy in Canberra on August 8. The action was part of actions worldwide to commemorate the August 8, 1988 uprising in Burma in which
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