By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's organised working class expects the new government to be thoroughly accountable to its supporters and will resort to mass action if workers' interests are betrayed. These are some of the findings of
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By Chris Albertyn
Mounting pressure has prompted the South African defence ministry to move quickly in addressing a small rural community's grievances concerning land which had been so badly polluted by military activities development plans
[This is the edited transcript of a talk given by Left Business Observer editor Doug Henwood at a panel sponsored by Monthly Review during the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York City in April.]
Four years ago, I sat on one of these panels
intro = The Balkanisation of the West
By Stjepan G. Mestrovic
Routledge
Reviewed by Phil Clarke
In 1989 US state department academic Francis Fukuyama shot to fame proclaiming "the end of history" in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Strike over redundancy packages
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — Workers in the Engineering & Water Supply department have struck over the state government's refusal to extend conditions provided to other government workers in separation
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Hundreds of rural labour tenants — impoverished communities who exchange labour on white-owned farms in return for the use of land — have begun a campaign of strikes and marches in the Piet Retief region of the
By Kate Minnett
CAIRNS — The federal minister for environment, John Faulkner has announced he will visit the construction site of the $30 million tourist Skyrail in early August to make a first-hand assessment.
Conservation group and
Rwanda: how Canberra can really help
Canberra's belated decision to spend $10 million for aid to Rwanda, although welcome, is a pittance compared to the amount rich Australia could and should contribute. Putting the figure in proportion, $10
Give-aways to Go Fish
Go Fish, an all out lesbian date movie, is a hip lifestyle comedy that follows the lives of five women as they go on dates, have fashion crises, oversleep, wish for and deal with love. Rose Troche's stunning directorial
By Joan Coxsedge and Gerry Harant
The ongoing process of rewriting the history of Australia's labour movement pervades David McKnight's book Australian Spies and Their Secrets, reviewed by Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly some weeks ago.
The book is based
Electrical workers fight for jobs
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — One thousand Electrical Trades Union members are taking industrial action over the proposed introduction of contract labour by the Electricity Trust Supply A. An 80-member
By Reihana Mohideen
Despite heavy rains around 40,000 people protested in Manila against the Filipino version of a consumption tax, the Value Added Tax (VAT), which the Ramos government is threatening to introduce during the next session of
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