BY SUE BOLAND
It is getting harder and harder to organise international conferences of the left these days. Rich imperialist governments have taken to routinely denying visas to delegates from Third World countries, even when those delegates have
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Bob Dylan Behind the Shades: The Biography — Take TwoBy Clinton HeylinViking, 2000780 pp, $50 (hb)
In February 1991, as the US was bombarding Iraq in a frenzy of bloodletting, Bob Dylan received a Lifetime Achievement
BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — Yallourn Energy is attempting to use the Industrial Relations Commission to force the shedding of further jobs and conditions on the workers of the Latrobe Valley. On January 18, as the commission sat, a 400-strong
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — Delegates attending the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions' 19th congress met at the Olympic Park wrestling stadium here on January 18 to elect a new leadership. While KCTU congresses meet each year, a new leadership is
BY TOM WILSON
HOBART — Faced with a rising tide of public opposition to its latest woodchip mill and wood-fired power station proposal, Forestry Tasmania has decided on a complete change of tactics. Abandoning any pretence of warm and fuzzy
BY LYNDA HANSEN
BRISBANE — Each week, US-backed counterrevolutionary groups broadcast 2800 hours of propaganda into Cuba, using a frequency that the country's government cannot block without also playing havoc with aircraft navigation controls,
EAST TIMOR: UN agency workers go on strike
BY VANYA TANAJA
DILI — Workers at three World Food Program warehouses here took strike
action on January 8 and then went to the headquarters of the WFP the next
day when the agency took no
BY JON LAND
Speculation is increasing that, after the stalemate that occurred at the first round of talks in October, the federal government and representatives of the East Timorese are readying to compromise on the future of the Timor Gap Treaty
BY PETER JOHNSTON
DARWIN — "We expect over 50% of the first elected parliament — definitely", Estanislau da Silva reassured trade unionists here on January 11, claiming that his party, Fretilin, is the only political group in East Timor with
BY SUE BOLANDÂ
“The rise of a new radical international movement against neo-liberal
globalisation could lay the foundations for a major turn in the class struggle
by tapping the pent-up dissent against the capitalists' attacks” — that
BY MOUIN RABBANI
There has been a flurry of diplomatic activity designed to achieve an Israel-Palestinian treaty prior to US President Bill Clinton's January 20 departure from the White House. On January 3, the White House announced that
BY JIM McILROY
The federal government's program to outsource public sector information technology (IT) services to private industry has taken a big hit with the release of the Humphry Review on January 12. The review criticised the outsourcing
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