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Networker: Clubbing the competition

Clubbing the competition Picture this: two computer operating systems are fighting it out for control of millions of personal computers around the world (the operating system is the fundamental piece of software which allows a computer

TURKEY: Western investors trigger economic earthquake

BY SEAN HEALY "An absolutely classic emerging market panic" was one Western investment banker's cold-blooded diagnosis, but for 65 million citizens of Turkey the February 22 collapse of their currency, the lira, was a disaster which may rival in

The nuclear industry invites itself to dinner

BY ANNA BARNES& BETTINA QUATACKER BRISBANE — Steritech, the company that has proposed the construction of a nuclear irradiation plant for Narangba in Brisbane, has applied to the Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) to allow the nuclear

INDONESIA: Nike forced into self-criticism

BY PIP HINMAN The recent well-publicised report by Global Alliance for Workers and Communities on sexual harassment of women workers in Nike factories in Indonesia is hardly earth-shattering news. By now, Nike's legendary exploitation of

Campaign launched to free the refugees

BY DANTE TAGLE SYDNEY — "There is no such thing as an illegal refugee", Iraqi community leader Zainab Al Turkey told the 50 anti-racists who crammed into an upstairs room of Parramatta's Town Hall on February 26 to launch the Free the Refugees

3CR: on air and in the street for IWD

BY GERALDINE CAHILL MELBOURNE — Every year, community radio station 3CR serves a feast of women's programming, music and performance to celebrate International Women's Day. This year, 3CR's banquet will bigger than ever. It will kick off at

ZIMBABWE: Socialist MP survives challenge from MDC right

BY NORM DIXON Munyaradzi Gwisai, the leading member of the International Socialist Organisation who was elected to Zimbabwe's national parliament last June under the banner of the trade union-backed Movement for Democratic Change, has survived

Unionists back Daewoo workers

SYDNEY — The mass sackings and police repression of protesting Daewoo workers in South Korea prompted a solidarity rally outside the South Korean Consulate in Martin Place on May 1. Organised by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the rally

Write on

Unionists for IWD I'm writing to wish good luck to the members of the International Women's Day Collective 2001 in your march and rally. The AMWU remains one of the most male-dominated unions in the country, with 86% of our members being male. I

Campaign to release refugees escalates

BY TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — About 150 people rallied outside the Maribyrnong detention centre on February 25. It was the first in a campaign of weekly vigils that will occur every Sunday until it is closed down. Victorian Trades Hall Council

Action updates

Union delegate sacked MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at the McConnell Dowell concrete silo construction site in Fisherman's Bend walked off the job on February 27 after their new shop steward, Jose Zuniga, was

Loose cannons

If you can't beat them ... I "I hope we have moved on from keeping the bastards honest to also giving them a few good ideas." — Democrats leader Meg Lees defending her record on February 28. If you can't beat them ... II "If I wanted to be