Casual workers to strike
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — Contract workers at the Victorian state government's Land Titles Office, members of the Australian Services Union (ASU), are planning to strike on November 14 and 15. The workers are
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Networker: Why prosecute Microsoft?
Why is the US Justice Department engaged in a court battle with Microsoft Corporation, the country's most highly valued company? On November 3, Judge Thomas Jackson attacked Microsoft's conduct toward Netscape,
By Eva Cheng
Despite extraordinarily brutal oppression, India's working people are resisting the new attacks that the ruling coalition, regrouped after the October election, is seeking to impose. The offensive, loaded with privatisation and
Government slashes funding to green groups
By Jim Green
On November 8, the federal government announced another round of funding cuts to environment groups. The government's funding program, which totals $1.65 million, will now include grants to
By Natalie Zirngast
High school students will walk out on November 30 in Seattle to join a protest against the World Trade Organisation (see Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly page 20). The protest is being organised by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and
By Sue Njanji Matetakufa
HARARE — More than six months after Zimbabwe's Supreme Court shocked equal rights campaigners worldwide by relegating African women to the status of "junior males" within the family, many Zimbabweans are worried about the
Rainforest projects hit the road
By John Seed
LISMORE — Ruth Rosenhek and myself, from Lismore's Rainforest Information Centre (RIC), will be doing workshops and presentations in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle in the next month to
Budiman Sujatmiko likely to be freed soon
By Max Lane
The Indonesian People's Representative Council (DPR) is likely to recommend the release of at least 44 political prisoners, including People's Democratic Party (PRD) chairperson Budiman
Telstra walks out of negotiations
By Tim E. Stewart
In an effort to secure an enterprise agreement without union endorsement, Telstra management walked out of negotiations with unions on November 5. The following week, management express-posted
Vegetarianism
I was disappointed to read an article (GLW #383) condemning vegetarianism as politically specious. It is divisive to do so, considering that there are a lot of vegetarians in social change movements, and "splitting the camp" is surely
Women's liberation discussed in Wollongong
By Nicole Hilder
WOLLONGONG — On November 6, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly held a women's liberation forum titled "It's Time to Get Angry Again". Dr Margaret Perrott from the Democratic Socialist Party outlined
By Grant Coleman
PERTH — After striking for 96 hours, hospital worker members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union have won a 5% pay rise and are now entering into arbitration. Five hundred orderlies, caterers and patient
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