The ugly logic of enterprise bargaining
It appears that the Keating government is about to strike a new deal with the ACTU to allow enterprise bargains to be stitched together without unions. At present the Industrial Relations Commission can
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The turnout of over 500 women at the 7th annual gathering of the Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA), held at the University of Queensland last month, was the biggest attendance ever for this national gathering of campus-based
Comment by John Maitland
Australia's mining corporations have been leading the crusade against the High Court's Mabo decision, which recognises native title and puts an end to the doctrine of terra nullius — the lawyers' pretence that
By Sara Ford
KUWAIT — The first word any Westerner ever picks up in Kuwait is "Inshalah". Its literal meaning is "with God's will or help". But having heard it most often when coupled with unfruitful requests for supplies, assistance,
Rosemarie Gillespie urges help for Bougainville
By Tony Hastings
Rosemarie Gillespie believes in direct action. When she heard that people were dying from lack of medicine in Bougainville because of the Papua New Guinea government's
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July 31 marked the 72nd anniversary of the South African Communist Party. After it had been outlawed for 40 years, 50,000 people attended the public launch of the SACP as a legal party, outside Soweto in July 1990. Since then its membership has
By Nilotpal Basu
A massive popular struggle is rocking Nepal. The struggle is reviving the memories of the huge people's movement for the restoration of democracy in 1990-91.
But the political forces that fought the struggle for
By Larry Douglas
On July 26, 1993 the San Francisco Labor Council voted to oppose the US blockade of Cuba and endorsed the US Cuba Friendship Caravan which is delivering supplies to Cuba.
The council, which represents trade unions
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Neil Murray
Aurora Records through Festival
Reviewed by Ignatius Kim
It must be firm evidence of the anarchic nature of the market oriented recording industry when a singer-composer like Neil Murray has difficulty obtaining
Old sexism: new perspective
In the United States, about a year ago, the prisoners at the Georgia Women's Correctional Institute, in Hardwick, Georgia, brought a civil suit against that institution. The prisoners allege that the institute's
By Hugh Williamson
Japan's economic boom of the late 1980s has run into trouble. Workers are the first to bear the burden — lower wages, higher unemployment, worsening working conditions, and so on.
Wage increases agreed to late March
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