By Penny Glass
BRISBANE — Teatro de los Elementos (Theatre of the Elements), founded in 1991, is a community theatre company that works in central Cuba at Cumanayagua in Cienfuegos province. Through its work, communities isolated from urban
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Competition and cooperation
By Allen Myers
Australia has to be competitive internationally, we are continually told whenever governments want to lower wages or cut social security spending. Within Australia, businesses have to be
By Jo Obronschka
MELBOURNE — Victorian public sector nurses voted at a mass meeting on August 26 to accept an agreement which includes an 11% wage rise over three years and the creation of 250 extra nursing positions in Victorian hospitals.
Mentally ill dumped onto charities
By James Vassilopoulos
SYDNEY — Walk around any capital city, and you will see more homeless people today than five years ago. The homeless you see are more likely to be younger and to have a mental
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Since the days of perestroika, the US government, working through quasi-independent aid bodies and the main US labour federation, the AFL-CIO, has spent millions of dollars trying to fashion a new Russian labour
By Shane Hopkinson
Earlier this month a groundbreaking exhibition opened at Newcastle Regional Museum. "Hunter Pride: A Celebration of the Lives and Loves of the Hunter Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Community" is the first community sponsored,
Chinese dissidents denied rights
By Eva Cheng
Jailed dissident Wang Dan is suffering from severe pain, which doctors suspect is caused by a brain tumour, but officials have turned down Wang's repeated requests for a test. Wang is in weak
By Bronwen Beechey
As a labour researcher with the metalworkers' union, Peter Ewer went to the Latrobe Valley in 1988 to run shop stewards' training courses and "convince workers of the merits of award restructuring and the benefits of higher
By Adam Hanieh
RAMALLAH — Fighting has escalated in the last week in areas of southern Lebanon occupied by the Israeli army. Since August 20, Israel has launched four air strikes against forces fighting the occupation. This brings the number
By Jeremy Smith
On August 20 the federal Industrial Relations Commission handed down an important decision on tenure and conditions for casual and contract staff working in tertiary education. Since 1995, the National Tertiary Education and
Workers rally against changes to compo
By Tim Gooden
CANBERRA — Public sector workers responded to a call on August 26 from the ACT Trades and Labour Council to rally against proposed changes to workers' compensation. The lunch-time rally
How the Liberals sheltered Nazis
By Norm Dixon
The return of Konrad Kalejs, an Australian citizen deported from Canada as a World War II Nazi collaborator and leading member of a death squad responsible for the slaughter of 20,000
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