By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — An important breakthrough, it seemed, was about to occur in the fight to defend Russian workers. On May 1, the back-to-Brezhnev Trudovaya Rossiya ("Toiling Russia") bloc was not the only formation calling its
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Get Australia working By Dr John Tomlinson Federally, Labor came to power at the height of the 1982-83 recession. During the period it has been in office, unemployment has never dropped below 6% and has averaged 9%. This has been a disaster
By Sally Low and Peter Annear Elections in France, Italy and Germany over the last two months have delivered sharp rebuffs to major parties in both government and opposition. While in all three cases increased support for far right parties
NSW Liberals in disarray By Barry Healy SYDNEY — The New South Wales government is in serious disarray as the scandal over the attempt to give Liberal renegade Dr Terry Metherell a plum Public Service job moves into its second month. The
Politics after Los Angeles Following the collapse of the bureaucratic attempts to build socialism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, propagandists for capitalism had a field day proclaiming the victory of their system. Some even
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the author of the book The Mugging of Black America and a correspondent for the US Guardian newspaper. He spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly by telephone about the underlying conditions that led to the explosion triggered in Los
By Nora Richardson Bobby Sands was born in March 1954 in Newtownabbey, a Unionist area. His first introduction to violence came when he was six. The Unionists found out that the family was both Catholic and Nationalist — and so started the
Unions in tiff with Kirner By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — A plan to corporatise state utilities, including the State Electricity Commission, the Gas and Fuel Corporation and Melbourne Water, has been endorsed by the Kirner government's cabinet
The vaudeville show In the dog days of his bitter struggle to bump off Bob Hawke, Paul Keating assured sceptical journalists that the utter lack of warmth felt for him by the Australian electorate was no problem: slap on a bit of vaudeville and
Light criticism The great tragedy of the book Politics and the Accord is that it has come too late and is conceived as a reply to Costa and Duffy's iconoclastic work Labour, Prosperity and the Nineties. I was surprised to find Mike Rafferty
Poverty in the United States The average weekly wage of non-supervisory workers fell by approximately 20% between 1973 and 1990. The real minimum wage in 1990 was worth 20% less than it was in 1980. For a full-time year-round worker the
Brisbane free speech campaign resumes By Cameron S. Boyd BRISBANE — Some 100 people rallied on May 8 in the Queen Street Mall to generate public support for the freedom of speech campaign in Brisbane. Speakers included Terry Fisher, a
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