Maritime Union of Australia stop-work meetings held around Australia last week to update members on the Webb Dock dispute showed that wharfies and seafarers are angry, determined to win and not alone. The meetings all voted for a $50 levy on members
306
By Russell Pickering
CANBERRA — The Democratic Socialists are the only progressive party contesting the ACT election who will be recommending where their supporters direct their preferences. Sue Bull, Democratic Socialist candidate for Molonglo,
World trade union network against Rio Tinto launched
World trade union network against Rio Tinto launched
By Norm Dixon
Trade unions with members in the Rio Tinto corporation have launched a worldwide network to defend workers' pay and
Anti-war activists around the country have quickly mobilised to oppose another US-led war against Iraq. Anti-war coalitions have been formed in many cities, and pickets and protests have been organised. In Melbourne, reports Ben Reid, 300 people
Sydney action to defend abortion rights
An emergency meeting of abortion rights campaigners in Sydney on February 14 decided to organise an action to protest against the charges laid in WA. The action will be held on Friday, February 20, at 5.30pm.
Fee boycott at SCU
By Bernard Wunsch
LISMORE — The administration of Southern Cross University has imposed an up-front fee of $18 on all students enrolling this year. In response, the Students Representative Council is organising a boycott. SRC
Democratic Socialists: time to put the unions on a war footing
"Corporate Australia sniffs a decisive victory at Webb Dock", Dick Nichols, the Democratic Socialist Party's industrial convenor said last weekend. "That's why the union movement has to
IWD forums debate feminist issues
In preparation for International Women's Day, forums on issues confronting women have been held in Perth and Adelaide. In Perth, Shannon Buckley writes, approximately 30 women and men participated in a one-day
[Printed here are excerpts from three articles in Socialist Appeal analysing the British Labour government's social policies.] 'Welfare to work'?
The Labour government intends to introduce workfare for the long-term unemployed. Workfare is an
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Part of the Russian "soul", western tradition holds, is a unique bent for passive suffering. Centuries of peasant revolts, not to speak of other convulsions, give the lie to this myth. Nevertheless, it still gets
Treading Our Own Paths: A book of writings by people from the Canberra region who have experienced psychiatric illnessEdited by Robin DavidsonFootsteps Press, 1997.92 pp., $10 (includes postage)ACT Writers Centre, PO Box 23, Griffith, ACT 2603Also
No new Gulf War!
By Allen Myers
US President Bill Clinton, reported Prime Minister John Howard, was "very grateful" for the Australian government's backing as the US prepares an attack on Iraq. US presidents were similarly grateful the last time
- Page 1
- Next page