Job insecurity is growing
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Successive Queensland governments have boasted of being the nation's leading job creator. But 50% of all new jobs created in Queensland since 1988 were casual or part-time, according to a
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The bombs
By Brandon Astor Jones
[Editor's note: In last issue's "Looking out" column, we accidentally omitted the drawing described in it. We are therefore repeating the column, with the drawing.] "Bombing cannot be a solution ... but the
Support Abdullah Ocalan
SYDNEY — The Australian Kurdish Association organised a 60-strong demonstration
outside the Law Society building on May 25 to call for the release of Kurdistan
Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan and a
By Trish Corcoran
MELBOURNE — On May 21, 150 people attended an Earthworker public meeting featuring Jack Mundey. Earthworker is a Melbourne-based organisation that mobilises trade unionists around environmental issues. Many of the objectives of
LAHORE, Pakistan — The Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) organised a successful demonstration against the arms race on May 27. The action attracted more than 250 people despite police and government harassment. It was the only such demonstration
By Lachlan Malloch
SYDNEY — "The mass movement for full democratic reform in Indonesia over the next 12 will grow", Max Lane, national coordinator of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET), told a forum here on May 29. Forty
Liz Wheeler
PM John Howard has made many comments over the past month about the East Timorese people's need for security and stability. His concern about East Timorese people in Australia's backyard is welcome, but he appears to have forgotten
The Cordillera people's armed protest
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — After driving for 22 hours, on narrow roads which cling to the sides of spectacular mountain ranges, we were greeted in the dead of night by armed fighters of the Cordillera
By Eva Cheng
Two days after the close of the May 12-16 rolling general strike led by hospital and metalworkers, the South Korean government issued arrest warrants for many union leaders, including those who led the nine-day subway workers' general
By Michael Karadjis
There is considerable contention on the left about the Kosova Liberation Army's relationship to NATO and position in the Balkans war. It is charged of being an extreme nationalist organisation that would "slaughter" the Serbs if
Protesters condemn Democrats
BRISBANE — A picket against the GST was held outside the Fortitude Valley offices of the Australian Democrats on May 29, the day after their dirty deal with the Coalition was announced. Called by the Democratic
Adelaide Sorry Day commemoration
By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — Around 500 people gathered on May 26 for a "Journey of Healing" to mark the first anniversary of Sorry Day and the second anniversary of Bringing Them Home, the report on the
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