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THAILAND: Nike workers target Tiger Woods

BY DAVE GILBERT BANGKOK — Fifty sweatshop workers and students protested outside the Shangri La Hotel here on November 14 against the visit of golf champion and Nike sponsor Tiger Woods. They called on Nike to respect workers' rights to join

SWAZILAND: Workers plan blockade

The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions, backed by South Africa's trade union movement, has announced that a three-day blockade of the tiny southern African country's border crossings will begin on November 29. The goal of the action is to force

PALESTINE: UN force needed to end Israel's terror campaign

BY NORM DIXON The Israeli military's massive November 20 air and sea missile bombardment of heavily populated residential areas in Gaza — which, with the West Bank and east Jerusalem, was invaded by Israel in 1967 — had little to do with

Orwell: the decline of a middle-class radical

Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a GenerationBy Jeffrey MeyersNorton, 2000380pp, $39.90 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON "Big Brother is watching you"; "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" — these epigrams from Nineteen

Comic note off-key but tickles fancy

BY JONATHAN STRAUSS Rough CrossingBy Tom StoppardDirected by Lloyd KingNew Theatre, SydneyThursday to Sunday until December 23$22/$15, bookings 9873 3575 Since the New Theatre's establishment in 1932, much of Sydney's alternative and radical

Action updates

Picket blocks Age MELBOURNE — A picket line imposed by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Electrical Trades Union prevented distribution of the November 23 edition of the Age. The picket arose from a dispute around a

Radical alliance to run in WA election

BY SARAH STEPHEN PERTH — Radical left groups and activists have joined together to run in the next Western Australia state election, due early in 2001. Democratic Socialist candidates Anthony Benbow (Fremantle) and Roberto Jorquera (Perth),

Loose cannons

Self-obligation "... my government has sought to constantly relate ... enduring Australian values to the circumstances of our time... The first of these goes to the heart of the Australian ethos, to the heart of our national self-image and to the

A tragic decline in living standards

BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — The ACT Coroners Court was told on November 17 that it was "a tragic indictment of the system" that a Canberra man had committed suicide while holding a letter of demand from the Child Support Agency (CSA). Warren

Beattie in crisis over electoral rorts

BY JIM McILROY BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government faces its biggest crisis revelations over electoral rorts escalate. Te Shepherdson inquiry, established under the auspices of the Criminal Justice Commission following the conviction

Pilger attacks 'single-ideology state'

BY JOHN NEBAUER ADELAIDE — About 300 people packed Her Majesty's Theatre on November 16 to hear journalist John Pilger. The evening discussion, titled Hidden Agendas, was part of a series promoting the 2001 Festival of Ideas. The discussion

NEPAL: Socialists reaffirm fight against globalisation

BY SUE BULL& TIM GOODEN KATHMANDU — The Socialism 21 Conference here finished on a high note as representatives from 17 countries linked arms and led a spirited 10,000-strong rally against price hikes on November 9. The rally was organised by