By Anthony Brown
Despite much talk about a youth "crime wave", statistics show that youth crime is not out of control and that young people themselves are often the victims of crime. It is true that most criminal offenders are young people. The
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Win for pay equity in Canada
By Margaret Allum
In a monumental victory for women's rights, the Canadian government agreed on October 29 to implement the July 1998 findings of a human rights tribunal which ruled that there existed a discrepancy in
In Dili, more than 10,000 East Timorese marched through the streets on November 12 in a solemn commemoration of friends and relatives killed in the 1991 massacre by Indonesian troops at the Santa Cruz cemetery. It was the first such commemoration
The Susan G. Komen race for the cure
By Brandon Astor Jones
I have before me the first page of the D-section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It carries a photograph of Atlanta's Piedmont Avenue. From curb to curb it is covered with
By Boris Kagarlitsky and Renfrey Clarke
In the East there is a proverb: "Don't brag when you're on your way to war". Russian President Boris Yeltsin's generals have obviously never come across this saying. They still have not won a major battle in
Telstra walks out of negotiations
By Tim E. Stewart
In an effort to secure an enterprise agreement without union endorsement, Telstra management walked out of negotiations with unions on November 5. The following week, management express-posted
By Kate Carr
"Identity politics" emerged from British and US feminism towards the end of the 1970s. It developed in reaction to the failure of liberal feminism to adequately incorporate or acknowledge the differing experiences and demands of women
East Timor benefit
CANBERRA — On November 6, Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union organised a benefit for East Timor at the University of Canberra bar. The folk-rock
US blockade aids Iraqi regime
FARIS MAHMOOD, a member of the politburo of the Workers Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) is in Australia until early next year. He spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's PAUL BENEDEK. In Iraqi-occupied Kurdistan (in the north),
Networker: Why prosecute Microsoft?
Why is the US Justice Department engaged in a court battle with Microsoft Corporation, the country's most highly valued company? On November 3, Judge Thomas Jackson attacked Microsoft's conduct toward Netscape,
East Timor: defeat or victory for the left?
By Allen Myers
"John Passant's Requiem for the Left" is the title of a peculiar article in the November issue of Workers Online, the internet magazine of the NSW Labor Council. Passant, who describes
By Sean Healy
The republic was crushingly defeated on November 6; 55% of the electorate voted "no", and not a single state approved it. The preamble was rejected by 61% of voters. The biggest losers are the "official", minimalist republicans —
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