Groups come together
PERTH — Sixty representatives of 30 community action groups met here on May 27 to share ideas and experiences and explore ways of working together on environmental and other community issues. The meeting, initiated by Greens
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Country Labor: a new direction?
BY SUE BOLAND
Excited by the Victorian Labor Party's victory in the state Benalla by-election in May, federal Labor leader Kim Beazley announced that the ALP would register the name "Country Labor" federally. Is
Who's a naughty boy?
I'm afraid Winston is in the bad books. Everyone's favourite dummy has been a very naughty boy. (Haven't we Winston?) He sure has. Winston has been so naughty that I've locked him in his case until he apologises. He can
The final major hurdles to China's attempts to be fully reintegrated into the global capitalist trading system have been removed. In late May, the US House of Representatives granted China permanent "normal trade relations" status and a bilateral
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Interest rates
Why have interest rates been going up?
One argument is that as rates rise overseas Australia must follow suit to access an adequate supply of the world's savings. This is a bad argument.
The
Internationalism in the new century
Links number 15New Course Publications, May 2000127pp. $6.50 By Allen Myers
The latest issue of Links, the "international journal of socialist renewal", features Marxism 2000, the second Asia Pacific Solidarity
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is not used to losing. The wily septuagenarian is using every trick in the book to make sure that the popular trade union-backed opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), does not win a majority at
ATLANTA — The trial of Immigration and Naturalization Service official Mariano Faget has been under way for more than a week in Miami, and everything that has come out in court confirms that the case is a politically motivated frame-up. Cuban-born
FIJI: West threatens split
The claim by the terrorists who have kidnapped Fiji's prime minister and government that their actions are supported by most "indigenous" Melanesian Fijians has been dealt blow by the announcement that Melanesian Fijians
Bridge walk 'must be built upon'
BY MARGARET ALLUM
On May 28, a human sea of goodwill made its way across an Australian
icon, the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The largest mobilised expression of solidarity
with the Aboriginal people for
"The Australian government should immediately impose the comprehensive sanctions on trade, shipping, travel, mail, banking and sporting links on Fiji called for by the Fiji Trades Union Congress. They should be maintained until the 1997 constitution
Led by metalworkers and nurses, more than 70,000 workers from more than 140 trade unions joined the first day of a general strike which swept South Korea on May 31, according to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which organised the
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