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Philippines unions: 'The strike's on'

By Reihana Mohideen MANILA — "The strike's on", announced the leaflet distributed by striking workers here on June 18, as they started their industrial campaign around the demand for comprehensive tax reforms. Some 568 factory-based unions in

CPSU branch urges action on job cuts

By Maree Roberts CANBERRA — At the June 26 CPSU ACT branch conference, delegates voted for the branch leadership to organise a mass meeting as soon as possible to put a motion to the members for strike action against the cuts. It has become

Moves to democratise Tasmania's upper house

By Sarah Stephen HOBART — The May 25 election of three members of Tasmania's upper house, the Legislative Council, came under the spotlight this year because of the ongoing debate over gay law reform. This year three of the 19 council seats were

With our pens, brushes and art

Story and photos by Sujatha Fernandes We will make you account for your repressive activities, one dayWe will answer your sticks and bullets, one dayUntil that day comesUntil this place is developedThe flame of revolution will keep burning in

Call for lesbian and gay men to fight Howard's attacks

Call for lesbian and gay men to fight Howard's attacks By Samantha Lazzaro and Nick Everett BRISBANE — Four hundred people rallied here on June 29 as part of the annual Pride Festival. The theme of this year's rally and festival was "One

National Audit exposes Liberals' real agenda

By Pip Hinman and Jennifer Thompson The National Commission of Audit's report, released on June 21, provides the framework for the Coalition government's budget cuts. Just as most of the Liberal state governments commissioned an audit soon after

$50 billion missing in Latin American scandals

As of April 12, 21 nations had signed the Organisation of American States' (OAS) first regional convention to fight bribery and corruption. An editorial in the Washington Post praised the treaty, which the US and Canada had still not signed: "... For

Loose cannons

Overwhelming mandate "If 14% of Russians trusted [Alexander] Lebed, we may consider he has passed the exam giving him the right to work professionally in big politics." — Russian President Boris Yeltsin on the defeated presidential candidate

Making it a little easier

Ready or Not: Stories of Young Adult SexualityEdited by Mark McLeodRandom House, 1996308pp., $14.95Reviewed by Jen Crothers Being a young adult is never easy. There are the inevitable conflicts with "old adults" about school, work, drugs and

Apocalypse 1975-79

The Pol Pot regime: race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79By Ben KiernanNew Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 477 pp., $63 (hb)Reviewed by Helen Jarvis As rumours circulate once again about the death of Pol Pot, the

Good prospects for British left

KATY TYRRELL, a member of British Militant Labour and leader in UNISON, the biggest trade union in Europe, visited Australia in May. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's LISA MACDONALD interviewed her in Sydney. Question: What will the election of a Blair-led Labour

NSW hospitals under the chop

By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — With shouts of "Sack the government" and "We'll fight to the end", more than 1200 angry people packed into St George Leagues Club in Kogarah in Sydney's west on June 27 to protest against the ALP state government's