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WORLD ECONOMY: Big trouble for Big Auto

BY EVA CHENG The world's automobile industry is headed for big trouble again. Having triggered each of the eight recessions in the United States since the second world war, the US auto industry is plagued once again by a crisis of

UNITED STATES: Rich get even richer

SAN FRANCISCO — The richest US citizens are paying a declining share of their income even as their incomes grow more rapidly than everyone else's does. Yet President George W. Bush announced a budget that includes a tax cut proposal that will give

Mirotone tries to break 35-hour week

BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS SYDNEY — Paint company Mirotone has extended the lockout of its Queensland and NSW work force for another fortnight in an increasingly bitter campaign to break the 35-hour week and force workers out of the union and onto

Grrrrr — Sexism at Griffith Uni

Universities are back in full swing here in Queensland, and what better way to kick off a new semester than with a blatant and petulant attack on female students? Student paper Gravity, the publication of the Griffith

SOUTH AFRICA: 'Every day of delay costs lives'

BY DR COSTA GAZI [The following statement was written on behalf of the AIDS Babies Battling AIDS (ABBA) Trust by Dr Costa Gazi, the outspoken critic of South Africa's African National Congress government's policy of refusing to supply

'S11 spirit' boosts DSP

BY JACKIE LYNCH& AMANDA PEARSON MELBOURNE — Fifty members and supporters of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance celebrated the opening of the DSP Melbourne northeast branch's new Resistance Centre on busy High Street, Northcote, on

Selling nationalism to rip off workers

BY TRISHA REIMERS Big Kev is excited — and he should be, because he's discovered that, just like sex, nationalism sells (in his case, sells cleaning products). Big Kev is just another Aussie capitalist who's telling workers that they should

M1 hits the headlines

BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — M1 Sydney's plans for a blockade of the city's financial district on May 1 took a significant step forward on March 8 with a successful media launch outside the Australian Stock Exchange's Bridge Street offices. Two

and ain't i a woman?: Sexism, Hanson & the media

The media coverage of Pauline Hanson has certainly built the following of One Nation. The media focus on Hanson during the lead up to elections in Western Australia and Queensland was astonishing. Following WA election night, the journalism in the

Stonemasons get union support

The case of eight stonemasons, who were kept in a barbed wire enclosure and paid $145 a month, has highlighted the exploitation of foreign workers in Australia.

America's vengeful Vietnam fantasies

REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Vietnam and Other American FantasiesBy H. Bruce FranklinUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2000256 pp, $59.95 (hb) Elvis is alive and living in Los Angeles. Our planet is regularly visited by extraterrestrial beings who

EUROPEAN UNION: Blair and Amato lead attack on UN refugee convention

BY ALISON DELLIT "In all that we do, we will honour our obligation to provide protection for those fleeing persecution. We must not allow such tragic loss of life to continue." With this blatant lie British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian