By Rupen Savoulian
SYDNEY — Peter Perkins, a delegate from the Sydney sub-branch of the Public Transport Union (PTU), says that enterprise bargaining agreements have laid the basis for the corporatisation of the public transport system in New
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By Dick Nichols
Industrial relations minister Peter Reith is refusing to talk numbers, but the Coalition government is clearly planning massive redundancies in the public service. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) believes that at least
Workers join forces with Timor activists
By Barry Sheppard
Readers of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly have followed the struggle against the Indonesian military's occupation of East Timor for many years. But here in the US, this important struggle is not
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — A March 27 meeting here of 301 factory-based union presidents, representing 76,634 union members, launched a campaign to increase the take-home pay of workers by demanding the scrapping of income tax on workers. The
By Norm Dixon
A representative of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) in Australia, Otto Ondawame, has called for the withdrawal of all Indonesian troops from West Papua (called Irian Jaya by Indonesia). He also criticised the Australian government for
By Lisa Macdonald
The bosses' media have been having a field day since the election of the Coalition federal government. Whether the target is the unemployed or Aboriginal people, the formula is much the same: set up a soft target with a story
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
While the Indonesian military regularly massacres dissidents in West Papua, East Timor and Aceh, and the PNG military is fighting a war against the people of Bougainville to defend the interests of Australian capital, Australian policy is to support
By Stephen Marks
The mural along the back wall of the national office of the Dominican Communist Party is painted by prominent artist Silvano Lora. It depicts the people's history of the Dominican Republic. It starts with a portrait of the former
By Wendy Robertson
During the federal election campaign, the Liberals' announced that they intended to cut $180 million from social security payments over three years by cracking down on so-called social security fraud. In order to cut people off
Mick Young
Stories about Mick Young must be legion. Once a delegation fighting to save Port Adelaide Adult Matric (Saint Ethelton Behind the Wire to its inmates) from being chopped by the Bannon and Hawke governments was invited to put its spiel
By Naazreen Angullia
PERTH — Thirty Curtin University students attended a Resistance public meeting on the theme "Life under the Liberals" on March 28. The meeting was called in support of a National Day of Action against voluntary student
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