By Jim Green
The nuclear power industry is experiencing "a meltdown of historic proportions", according to a recent report from the Worldwatch Institute. After growing more than 700% in the 1970s, and 140% in the 1980s, nuclear power capacity has
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Solidarity or a sliding scale of oppression?
By Bronwyn Jennings
The way forward for women's liberation — or even if there is a need to keep fighting for collective liberation — continues to be debated within feminism. In recent years, there
East Timor delegation calls for solidarity
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — Belinda Morieson, branch secretary of the Australian Nurses Federation, and John Cummins, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union construction division branch
Stop press: PRD offices attacked
At 11.20pm on July 3, the office of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) in Yogyakarta, Central Java, was attacked by an unidentified group of men carrying machetes and swords. One carried a Molotov cocktail. The
Woman wins pregnancy discrimination case
By Robyn Marshall
In 1997, Colette Johnson, then 28 years old, was hired by the Ipswich office of Gloria Marshall Australia, the infamous weight-loss firm. Three weeks later she found out she was pregnant.
Gordonstone miners still 'standing tall'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The miners' union is considering a High Court appeal after the Federal Court ruled on June 25 that, while sacked mineworkers at the Gordonstone mine in central Queensland were
By Sue Boland
Membership ballots to determine party policy and select party leadership — surely these measures guarantee party members' control over elected politicians? It seems not: the Australian Democrats have such a structure but have
By Kate Carr
SYDNEY — On June 29 it was revealed that, despite the federal Coalition government's efforts, its proposed "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation will not be debated during this sitting of the Senate. With the changed balance
By Emily Citkowski
YOGYAKARTA — More that 80 Indonesian farm workers and organisers
met here on June 25-27 to re-establish the National Peasants' Union (STN
— Sarakat Tani Nasional). This was the STN's second congress. The founding
By Jill Hickson
DILI - In June, three 10 year-old boys found a grenade in their playground in Dili, the capital of East Timor. They pulled the pin and it exploded. Two of the boys were blow to pieces. The third was rushed to the church clinic in
Pakistani workers condemn war
By Farooq Suleria
LAHORE, Pakistan — On June 25, 500 workers attending the annual general meeting of Itehad (Unity) Carpet Industry Workers Union of Pakistan condemned the war efforts of the ruling classes of both
Colombia features in Comrades Bar
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — The second 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly Politics in the Pub at the Electrical Trades Union's Comrades Bar on June 30 focused on Colombia. It discussed whether Latin America's next
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