Women unionists support Indonesia campaign
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The "Free Dita Sari" campaign has obtained the support of a group of women trade unionists who met on November 4. The group includes representatives of the Community and
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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
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — 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
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
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
Politicians have talked about democracy for 300 years and now people have come to expect it. Ask any American and they'll tell you that democracy is a self-evident truth. It's even written down somewhere.
The authority of the state is so tarnished
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
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
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — 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
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
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ 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.
ZANU-PF drops Marxism
Zimbabwe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has formally dropped allegiance to Marxism-Leninism from its constitution, the party's newspaper announced on October 26. Party spokesperson Eddison
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