By Bill Mason
MIM Holdings, Queensland's biggest company, was plunged into a new crisis on September 21 when more than 800 workers at Mt Isa went on strike in the ongoing dispute over union coverage at the company's giant mine there. The 24-hour
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By Anthony Benbow
Three hundred meatworkers at the Harvey Abattoir, 100 kilometres south of Perth, have been on strike since September 19. Harvey Abattoir is owned by E.G. Green & Sons, one of WA's biggest meat processing and export companies.
The 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly $115,000 fund appeal has been given a boost by several fundraising dinners held in various cities. Particularly successful were the dinners in Melbourne (around $1300 raised), and in Sydney (attended by 265 people with $2000
By Duncan Chappie
Rather than stop valuable production, Britain's main state-owned nuclear power company risked a meltdown of a gas-cooled nuclear reactor for more than nine hours. Nuclear power is the next industry to be privatised by the
By Graham Matthews
Reading the mainstream media recently, one could be forgiven for believing that the environment movement had achieved a conclusive victory in the battle against global environmental degradation. "In just 10 short years, the
By Jennifer Thompson
The ACTU and federal government have announced that they will appeal against a non-union enterprise flexibility agreement between the Tweed Valley Fruit Processors and their approximately 45 employees. The federal Coalition
Women Out Loud: The Women's Cafe — A magazine program wrapping up the Beijing conference as well as other news and views. ABC Radio National, Saturday, September 30, 5.05pm (repeated Wednesday, October 4, 2.05pm).
The Europeans — Maria
The Delinquents (1962) Forget the Kylie Minogue film version, this novel is a total charmer. Nowadays we are fed stories of young love filtered through melodrama produced with conveyor belt efficiency. It may be hot and steamy, but the way I remember
From dream to reality
that's the prison life
You sleep and dream
to awake and find reality
inside a prison cell
thinking why you're here
you need not hide
it's clear now it's Genocide
fight the feelings
By Stephen Marks
TACAMICHE — The soldiers at the checkpoints on the road into the village made it obvious that a military occupation was under way here, in the banana plantation heartlands of northern Honduras. Because of overproduction in the
By Dave Mizon
MELBOURNE — After almost ten weeks of strike action, Bass Strait offshore rig workers voted to return to work at a mass meeting held in Sale on September 20. The return to work was based upon a settlement document proposed by
Write on: letters to the editorNUS and ISO
Colm Bryce (ISO Chippendale) was correct that he has more in common with NUS bureaucrats than with Resistance and the DSP (GLW #203). In Brisbane the ISO have entered an alliance with the ALP left in
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