By Martin Khor Kok Peng
In mid-April, trade and commerce ministers from more than 100 countries will sign the Final Act of the Uruguay Round in a glittering ceremony at Marrakesh in Morocco. They will be putting the seal on a seven-year-long
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International Women's Day
Last Saturday thousands of women around Australia and internationally marched to mark International Women's Day. It is a tradition which began with a strike by women garment workers in 1908 for better pay and working
The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia
By Frank Cain
Spectrum Publications, 1993. 300 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Every radical lefty's heart has a soft spot for the Wobblies (the Industrial
Bloodwood: the art of the didjeridu
Alan Dargin with Michael Atherton
Natural Symphonies
Reviewed by Jill Hickson
This is a collection of 10 of the most unusual musical pieces I have ever heard featuring the didjeridu. The title Bloodwood
By Justin Arnold
SYDNEY — Deep down in the basement of the State Theatre, it was dark except for candlelight and empty except for the tables, which outnumbered the chairs by two to one. After a tedious search, I found a place to park my body.
By Frank Enright
Before the damming of the Franklin River became a national issue in the early '80s, Comalco would boast that its aluminium smelter at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania consumed as much power as the city of Adelaide. Although the
With South Africa's first democratic election less than two months away, solidarity with the people of South Africa is urgent. MARC NEWHOUSE and ANGIE HARTWIG, two long-time activists in the Australian anti-apartheid movement, have just completed a
Folk for instruments
Fiddling Around
Kilmarnock
Produced by Henk de Weerd
Recorded by Ian Coulls
Hard Yacka Records and 5EBI-FM
Reviewed by Gail Lord
Larrikin has announced a new distribution agreement for the Adelaide-based Hard
Nurses strike against cutbacks
By Nikki Ulasowski
Brisbane — More than 4000 nurses at 21 public hospitals statewide struck on March 10 against plans of state health minister Ken Hayward to cut 220 nursing administration jobs, in a bid to
Cooper slammed on 'dole threat'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — In a joint statement, Democratic Socialist candidates for the March 26 Brisbane City Council election Ana Kailis and Susan Price have slammed a proposal by state opposition
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In one of the largest labour protest actions in Russia for years, an estimated 600,000 coal industry workers struck on March 1 to demand payment of back wages and the allocation of new government subsidies. Reports
Woodside sacks 429
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Woodside Offshore Petroleum sacked 429 workers on February 28. One hundred and forty were from the work force of 500 at Karratha and the rest from the Perth-based staff.
Sixty-five of
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