By John Rainford
If organising the working class is narrowly construed as organising workers into unions, then it must be said that we've gone from being pretty good at it to being pretty crook. Australia was once the most highly unionised country
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Dorf and Beauty Ware picketers defiant
By Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at the Beauty Ware and Dorf factories in Melbourne's south-east are maintaining picket lines in their battle to save their jobs.
JAKARTA — Shalar Kosi is the secretary general of the Socialist Party of Timor (PST). In an interview with 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, he stressed that the crucial question for socialists in East Timor is building bases among the people.
By Iggy Kim
Since prehistoric times, humanity has been on the move. Driven by material compulsion, we have made the entire planet our own, adapting to all manner of climate and topography along the way. With the rise of class society, migration
By Chris Latham
Voter registration for the August 30 ballot on autonomy or independence for East Timor finished on August 6. Around 427,000 people registered. The large number of registrations is significant, reflecting the refusal of the East
By Farooq Sulehria
LAHORE — Since Pakistan and India have gone nuclear, August 6 — Hiroshima Day — has become an important day for peace activists. In both India and Pakistan, socialists are in the forefront of the peace movement. Hiroshima
Sex and education
By Brandon Astor Jones
"These kids knew that what they were doing was ... not right, but they did ... [not] know it was as bad as it was ... There was a naivete about the legal and moral consequences." — Bill Myers, police
Pangea campaign begins
By Grant Coleman
PERTH — The relocation soon of the head office of Pangea Resources, the company that has proposed the construction of an international high-level nuclear waste dump in Australia, indicates its interest in
In the three decades that film director Ken Loach has steadfastly championed the British working class, his work has lost none of its sting.
By Lachlan Malloch
SYDNEY — Staff employed at Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes across NSW are desperately trying to fend off severe funding cuts and job losses. As part of the state Labor government's June budget, $35 million is
By Sean Healy
Scores of Indian villagers are threatening to drown themselves in the rising waters of the remote Narmada River in protest against the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam. The villagers, organised in the Narmada Bachao Andolan
Megawati, Habibie and political alternatives
By Max Lane
JAKARTA — On July 29, Megawati Sukarnoputri addressed a select group of supporters at the national office of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). The speech was to lay
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