Telstra workers resist forced transfers
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — One hundred and fifty Telstra workers attended a protest meeting on January 30 after the company announced a plan to centralise its faults-recording network in Melbourne, forcing
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Socialism — the way forwardBy John PercyResistance Books, 199730pp., $3.50Available at all Resistance Bookshops Review by Pip Hinman
While the early 1990s was marked by a propaganda offensive about the end of "socialism", as we near the end of
NT TLC condemns Labor leader over Jabiluka
By Tim E. Stewart
DARWIN — Support for the campaign against the proposed uranium mine at Jabiluka has been strengthened after the NT Trades and Labour Council at its January meeting condemned NT Labor
By Alison Dellit
NEWCASTLE — A decision by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on January 29 refused workers at Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley No. 1 mine access to arbitration to resolve the long-running dispute at the mine. The dispute
Sex scandal diverts attention from threat to Iraq
By Barry Sheppard
For the past two weeks, the allegations that President Bill Clinton had an affair with a young woman working in the White House has drowned out other major news. The scandal
By Michael Bull and Ben Courtice
MELBOURNE — On January 28, the government's latest offensive against maritime workers was launched. National Farmers Federation front companies established a non-union beachhead on the Melbourne waterfront. Part
1997: the warmest year in this century
By Norm Dixon
A study released on January 23 reveals that 1997 was the warmest year in this century, further evidence that the planet is getting warmer due to the greenhouse effect. A team of scientists
Charity and change
By Emma Murphy
I recently spent six weeks in India. I stayed at a Sisters of Charity convent in the south with my aunty who has been a missionary for 60 years. Her days are spent trying to help the vast numbers of people
Asian crisis: powers seek to cobble together a remedy
By Eva Cheng
In mid-January, when Asia's economic crisis took a new turn for the worse, Washington sent an urgent call to invite key imperialist countries to meet in February on
By Jon Land
Recent reports from East Timor indicate that unless long-awaited monsoon rains arrive soon to break the drought, there may be a severe famine within the next few months. Speaking in Darwin on January 24, East Timorese resistance
ACT restricts democracy in elections
By Russell Pickering
CANBERRA — The Democratic Socialists, who are standing three candidates for the seat of Molonglo in the February 21 ACT election, are experiencing the difficulties encountered by
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"I guess there are very few new ideas in journalism." — Sydney Sun-Herald editor Alan Revell after his paper and the Sunday Telegraph both front-paged an "exclusive" beat-up claiming there is widespread issuing of fraudulent medical
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