MUA fight: the CPA failed a crucial testMy articles in 91̳ Weekly issues 322 and 323 on the deal between Patrick Stevedores and the Maritime Union of Australia were aimed at stirring up some open debate about the most
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Communist Party backs waterfront dealHow do you think a party which calls itself "communist" would assess the deal between Patrick, the Maritime Union of Australia and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, endorsed at mass
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intro = If the Maritime Union of Australia stands on the brink of a great victory, it is because workers, union activists, community campaigners and those who recognise a threat to basic democratic rights have responded to the call
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How to plug the real black holesThe following measures, which would fall most on those most able to bear them, would readily rake in funds needed to fund public health care, education and other welfare spending: Lifting the
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APEC: what it is and how to fight it[This is the edited text of a talk to the Slam APEC conference in Manila in November.] APEC brings out all the greed of Australian big business. Multinational mining companies like BHP,
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MANILA — What stance should the working people, peasants and poor of the Asia-Pacific region take towards Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the instrument of regional capitalist integration conceived by the Australian Labor
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The first three meetings of the leaders of the countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation held in Bogor (Indonesia), Osaka (Japan) and Vancouver (Canada) all went off with hardly any protest. But after last weeks meeting in
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If ever there was an abused term in the lingo of the left, it's "sectarian". For most, it just means "small" or "irrelevant". So sleek Labor MPs and trade union potentates dub all left organisations "sects": they're big and
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Sectarians help HowardOver the recent round of CPSU mass meetings, militant opposition to the losing approach of the Wendy Caird leadership would have acquired more authority in the minds of disillusioned and angry CPSU members
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The federal government has already eliminated more than 15,000 jobs in the Australian Public Service (APS). At least another 10,500 are to go by June 1997. Telstra workers are staring at job losses on a similar scale. Faced with
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The Sydney Morning Herald calls it the "return of the rally", the wave of anti-Howard actions that have convulsed politics over the last three months. But while the Herald writers look for clever explanations for this "sea-change in
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As John Howard faces his first wave of protest from students and education workers, building and waterside workers, his response shows that he's not yet confident of success. Faced with broad fronts like that of university