Davids strike: 'They want to do as they please'
A strike at Davids Limited by about 300 members of the National Union of Workers has lasted for more than three weeks. The company wants to reduce workers' conditions through casualisation, increasing
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Puerto Rican telephone strike
The Puerto Rican telephone workers' strike against the sale of the company is at a critical stage. After a victorious general strike on July 7 and 8, and after getting strong support from the people, workers'
By Jon Land
During the visit of foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer to Indonesia on July 9-11, the federal government's reluctance to make any significant change of policy on East Timor became clearer. Against the trend of other governments
A report released this month by Te Puni Kokiri — New Zealand's Ministry of Maori Development — shows that in employment, wealth, health and other areas, the gap between Maori and non-Maori has widened since the late 1980s.
Spreading protests undermine Indonesian military
By Max Lane
Eight weeks after the forced resignation of President Suharto, a strong campaign by human rights groups has forced the Habibie-Wiranto regime to admit that the elite commando corps,
By Sue Boland
Any indirect tax, like the Coalition's planned goods and services tax, is inherently inequitable because it taxes every individual at the same rate on their purchases, regardless of capacity to pay. Moreover, low income earners have
By Saffron Howden
In News of a Kidnapping, Colombian novelist and journalist Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez described journalism as "fortunately, power without the throne". Such a view presents a myriad of problems, not the least of which is
By Rebecca Meckelburg
Resistance and the "No Jabiluka Mine" media collective issued a joint statement on July 7 condemning the Northern Territory University's decision to confiscate a bus hired by the Resistance Club at NTU for club activities,
East Timor independence rally
By Adrian Gibbs
CANBERRA — About 300 East Timorese and their supporters marched under the unity flag from Parliament House to the Indonesian embassy on July 19. The event marked the anniversary of East Timor's
A short history of Maori struggle The following is abridged from a talk given to the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference in Sydney at Easter by Maori activist Hone Harawira.
By Jim Green
Anti-Hanson, anti-racist protests — in particular the secondary school walkouts organised by Resistance — have received a deluge of media attention in recent weeks. Nowhere has this been more than in Sydney, following an
By Regan Davis and Tim E. Stewart
BRISBANE — "Anti-racists on your feet! Join the march on Boundary Street". This was the call of Democratic Socialists as they marched through cosmopolitan West End here on June 25.
Chants of "Hanson, Howard,
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