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Workers take protest to five-star hotel By Vannessa Hearman MELBOURNE — A combined delegates rally involving all construction unions is scheduled later this month to discuss the growing problem of non-union labour in the industry. More than
Talking Up: Young Women's Take On FeminismEdited by Rosamund Else-Mitchelland Naomi FlutterSpinifex Press1998, 239 pp. By Zanny Begg Talking up: Young Women's Take on Feminism is a collection of essays by young Australian feminists. It was produced
Free double passes to Vince Jones' Sydney shows Five lucky 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly readers and their friends will catch Australia's leading jazz vocalist/trumpet player Vince Jones and his band free of charge. Vince will be playing at the Basement,
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — In cities and towns throughout Russia, repressive official policies have helped create a huge pool of narcotics users infected with the HIV virus. The infection is now poised to spread swiftly among young people who are
By Graham Matthews BRISBANE — "Socialism into the New Millennium" is to be the title of a conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance here over the ANZAC Day long weekend. "The conference will explore a wide range of
McSux: taking on the corporate giant By Huw Lockwood and Kim Bullimore British activists Helen Steel and David Morris, who have been fighting the fast food giant McDonald's since they were sued for libel for producing the "What's wrong with
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...Looking out: Good advice By Brandon Astor Jones "Friendship is a ... commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." — Oliver Goldsmith The Irish author's words above say a lot to us all, but to some,
It's all to plan Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before, for the benefit of those who have only recently joined us: THE HIRED HELP fly over head dropping incendiaries on selected targets. Every night it's bombs away as those
By Ruth Ratcliffe BRISBANE — Resistance and Jabiluka Action Group (JAG) activists are planning a combined high school and tertiary student walkout to protest against the Jabiluka uranium mine on April 29. The national day of protest was initiated
... and ain't I a woman?: Sexism and racism in the Balkans According to the Sydney Morning Herald's correspondent in Belgrade (April 4), the president of the Serbian writers' club, Ratko Adamovic, believes there is a cultural gulf between Serbs
French far-left election alliance raises hopes By Eva Cheng PARIS — The French far left could win four seats in the June 13 European elections. There has been an encouraging response to the joint ticket between the Ligue Communiste