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Letter from the US: Elections herald cuts in social wage

Elections herald cuts in social wage The stock markets of New York, Tokyo, Paris and London surged ahead in celebration of the re-election of President Clinton, and well they should from the point of view of the super-rich. Stability and

Russian workers strike, demonstrate for wage pay-out

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW 鈥 In one of the largest political gatherings in the Russian capital since the late 1980s, tens of thousands of workers demonstrated near Red Square on November 5 in a trade union-organised rally "For Work, Wages and

On the box

Actively Radical TV 鈥 Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 7pm. Access News 鈥 Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has

US political prisoners appeal for help

The following is abridged from a letter written by three political prisoners in Leavenworth Federal Prison, Kansas, USA. FBI director Louis Freeh [has] urged members of Congress to hold hearings concerning ways to further limit the already restricted

Chemicals linked to declining male reproductive health

By Peter Montague A lengthy new report from the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [NIEHS] describes serious deterioration of the male reproductive system in many regions of the world and suggests it may be caused by

ACT housing: 'Kickstart' to poverty

By Lara Pullin The 1996-97 ACT budget launched a new Liberal government program to move people out of secure and affordable public housing and into the private home-buyers market. The "Kickstart" program is the result of the suspension of the ACT

Write on: Letters to the editor

CTBT Before replying to Allen Myer's "CTBT: don't be fooled" (GLW #252), might I just point out that I wrote that the fate of the Soviet Union (not the fact of the Soviet Union) should be enough evidence to show that nuclear weapons do not provide

Manning Clark smear exposed

By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 The vicious smear campaign mounted by the Brisbane Courier-Mail newspaper against respected historian Professor Manning Clark over the past few months has been demolished by revelations from the Russian government that

ALP wins another union

The defeat of the Bill Ethel leadership in the elections of the Western Australian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union is a blow to the already too small left wing in the union officialdom. The prize goes to the Labor Party,

Greens and immigration

91自拍论坛 Weekly's JORGE ANDRES spoke to Australian Greens Senator BOB BROWN about the renewed debate on immigration. Question: How do you see the issue of limits on immigration? The limits have to be set according to changing circumstances.

Defeating Howard

By Dave Abbott A strategy to defeat Howard must involve as wide as possible an alliance of paid and unpaid workers, unions, community groups, academics, and others. The Senate can do little more than temper the extremes of Coalition ideology. The

Korean workers fight repressive laws

By Eva Cheng On November 4, president of the "illegal" Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Kwon Young-kil, began an indefinite hunger strike in protest at recent manoeuvres by the government and employer groups to finalise a year-long industrial