By Jennifer Thompson
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission is hearing an application by the CFMEU mining division for exclusive coverage of production workers in the central Queensland coal port, Dalrymple Bay. The dispute heated up in
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People's Democratic Party president Budiman Sujatmiko is a hunted man. The PRD headquarters in Jakarta and Surabaya have been raided by the military. The house in Semarang of the head of Student Solidarity for Indonesian Democracy (SMID), one of the
Comment by Jonathan Strauss
A recent ad in the Macquarie University student newspaper Arena reads: "If you're sick of left-wing groups that never do anything, so are we. We have no party line, no paper sales, no nostalgia and no leaders. Greens,
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East Timor
This is to congratulate GLW, once again, on its East Timor coverage. More than any other publication I can think of, GLW challenges our assigned role as the "window-shoppers and clock-watchers of
By Max Lane
According to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly sources in Jakarta, at least 47 people were shot and knifed to death in Jakarta during the July 27 military attack on supporters of Megawati Sukarnoputri in the national headquarters of the Indonesian
By Iggy Kim
HOBART — Slow economic growth, combined with substantial cuts in federal grants, means the Liberal minority government will be wielding a very sharp razor in the August 15 state budget. The cuts are likely to badly affect public
By Beavis Marks
With the Howard government pushing its brand of neo-liberalism down our throats, training schemes and traineeships are being "restructured" for the benefit of big business. In March I was made to participate in a CES training
Clothing workers strike
By Norm Dixon
The 83,000-strong South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union began an indefinite national strike on July 25 for a 10% wage rise. Half the union's membership is in the Western Cape. Workers are also
Comment by Maree Roberts
The Community and Public Sector Union's July 25 24-hour stoppage (July 31 in Victoria) was a success — not because all CPSU members heeded the union's call, but because they participated more actively than in recent
An agreement reached between CRA and the mining division of the CFMEU on July 27 ended the nearly year-long strike at CRA's Vickery coal mine near Gunnedah in NSW. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's JENNIFER THOMPSON spoke to Vickery CFMEU lodge president Derek
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"It was a national Labor government which forged national competition policy and they did it for good and valid Labor reasons." — NSW treasurer Michael Egan, defending his policies against critics at the state ALP's
Indonesian activist on tour
By Jo Brown
Nico Warouw, the international officer of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and a leader of Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia (SMID), urged support for the growing democracy struggle in
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