MUA: Rank and File challenge warmly received
By Dick Nichols
For Dave Cushion, the National MUA Rank and File candidate for Victorian branch secretary, the Maritime Union of Australia election, which began on April 14, is about "reestablishing
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More charges thrown at Pinochet
ON APRIL 7, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon decided to accuse Augusto Pinochet of 11 more cases of torture allegedly committed between 1988 and 1990. The latest charges bring to 60 the total number of charges pending
Buffalo Music: benefit for East Timor
MELBOURNE — Buffalo Music, a six-hour musical spectacular to promote solidarity
with the people of East Timor, will be held at Trades Hall on May 1.
The concert features the Natural Mystic, Painters
By Jonathan Singer
The two April 11 NSW Sunday papers carried the same screaming headline: "Invaded". What was the force and intent of this invasion? At last count, 59 people, sailing in a rusty tugboat, had apparently run aground in northern NSW.
Speak-out on Balkans war
By Bea Brear
SYDNEY — The socialist youth organisation Resistance organised a snap speak-out at Town Hall on April 16 against the NATO war on Serbia and Serbia's attacks on Kosova. Resistance organiser Sarah Peart spoke
US/NATO hypocrisy exposed as Turkey attacks Kurds
By Norm Dixon
Turkey, a member of the US-led NATO alliance that is bombing Serbia with the claimed aim of ending the oppression of the Kosovar people, is viciously escalating its attacks on the
Polemical theatre without gimmicks
Face To FaceBy David WilliamsonDirected by Sandra BatesEnsemble Theatre, SydneyUntil May 8 Review by Brendan Doyle
David Williamson goes back to his working-class roots with his latest play, Face To Face, which
... and ain't I a woman?: Harassment is never OK
Two recent cases involving sexual harassment in the workplace had very different outcomes. In Italy, a compensation claim by a woman alleging that sexual harassment forced her to leave her job
Devilishly clever
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Sarcasm ... [is] in general, the language of the Devil ... I have long since denounced it." — Thomas Carlyle Carlyle's words seem appropriate her. While we all have our own opinion about what is, or is
Honoured leadership
"Today's [party room] meeting will be happy to let George stay, because no-one would want his job anyway." — A NSW National Party source, predicting to the Sydney Morning Herald the re-election of state National leader George
Timorese meet to plan development policies
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — About 100 people representing East Timorese communities, non-government organisations and international aid agencies met from April 5 to 9 to discuss policies to be put
Rape Crisis Centre in crisis
By Stephanie Roper
EESYDNEY — The NSW Rape Crisis Centre has been threatened with loss of funding after operating in deficit for the last two years. The centre says it has been forced into a budget deficit by the
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