May 28 is the international day of action for women's health. It is an indictment of global capitalism that so many of the world's women cannot access even the most basic of health services. Even in the wealthy countries like Australia I am learning
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CANBERRA — A May 10 Australian Industrial Relations Commission decision delivered a wage increase of between $6 and $148 per week to more than 15,000 childcare workers in Victoria and the ACT.
Joanne Schofield, Liquor Hospitality Miscellaneous
BRISBANE — Forty people attended Queensland's Socialist Alliance Fightback conference on May 7 to discuss and organise resistance to the federal government's planned attacks on workers' rights once it takes control of the Senate on July 1.
Among
DARWIN — Protesters gathered outside the immigration department office on May 13 to speak out against the threatened deportation of 50 East Timorese refugees, including Darwin man Jose Jongue. The protest also demanded an end to the incarceration
Rohan Pearce
Late on May 12 an armed group stormed a prison in Andijan, a town of 350,000 inhabitants in the east of the former Soviet Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan. The group liberated some 4000 prisoners, including 23 detainees accused of
Reg Keys, whose son was killed on duty in Iraq in 2003, stood against British PM Tony Blair in his Sedgefield constituency in the May 5th general election and won 10.2% of votes cast. Blair retained the seat, although his share of the vote fell by
Susan Price, Sydney
Union delegates will mobilise for mass delegates' meetings via Sky Channel across NSW on May 27, in the lead-up to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) week of action from June 27 to July 1 against the federal Coalition
The Brazilian government has released new figures indicating that almost one-fifth of the Amazon rainforest has been chopped down. In the 12 months to August 2004, 26,000 square kilometres of forest were cut down, 6% more than in the previous year.
"The federal budget steals from the poor to give to the rich. It's a sick case of Robin Hood in reverse." That's the verdict on Peter Costello's 10th budget from the Socialist Alliance, a party that mobilises in the interests of workers, the poor and
Stuart Munckton
The 2005-06 federal budget, unveiled by Treasurer Peter Costello on May 10, included "across-the-board" tax cuts. However, while high-income earners received an average tax cut of $41.58 a week, most workers will receive only a
Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job MarketBy Elisabeth WynhausenPan Macmillan Australia, 2005246 pages, $30 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When Elisabeth Wynhausen surprised her friends by taking nine months off from her job as a
In February, Venezuelan bosses' organisation Fedecamaras lodged a complaint against the Venezuelan government with the International Labour Organisation. Fedecamaras accused the left-wing government led by President Hugo Chavez of violating trade
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