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BY WILL WILLIAMS WOLLONGONG — "Seventy-nine-year-old great-grandfather, tribal initiate, retired coal-miner, unabashed socialist and enduring activist", was how the May 7 Illawarra Mercury described Fred Moore after the Wollongong Trade Union
CFMEU Gary McCarthy's tirade against the CFMEU NSW construction division [Write On, GLW #486] cannot go unanswered. The CFMEU does not claim to have led the anti-apartheid movement or the green bans of the 1970s. The Building Workers
Museworthy: Suffering, Related to Ownership' Privilege — someone else's suffering. What I should have refused before I needed to give it away. BY MTC CRONIN MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry
BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE — After 164 years of dispossession and colonisation, Yorta Yorta people have entered a new chapter of their long search for justice and land rights. On May 23, the High Court heard an appeal by the Yorta Yorta
BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — "The workers united will never be defeated", 300 unionists chanted, led by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary John Maitland, on May 22. The event was a public meeting, titled "They
BY EVA CHENG In Gujarat state, where since February Hindu fundamentalist violence has killed more than 2000 people, mostly Muslims, and terrorised many thousands more, the local government plans to force 100,000 Muslim refugees out of relief camps.
and aint i a woman: Playing the game When did you last sit down and watch hours of women's sport on TV? Probably never, because women's sport is barely visible in the corporate media. But according to columnist Miranda Devine, it is women's
BY LYNDA HANSEN & JULIE WEBB-PULLMAN BRISBANE — Latin American solidarity activists here have combined forces to launch a campaign to free five Cubans imprisoned in the United States on espionage charges. The "Miami Five", as they have come to
BY JACKIE LYNCH MELBOURNE — A joint meeting to explore the links between unionists and environmentalists was held on May 22. Jack Mundey, former NSW Builders Labourers Federation leader and environmental activist, addressed 70 people who were
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS CANBERRA — More refugee-rights activists are getting involved in the organising of a June 23 protest. In addition to the Refugee Action Committee (RAC), the ACT Council of Churches, Community Aid Abroad, Amnesty International,
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT SYDNEY — "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again" — this could be the motto of the leaders of the Bus and Tram division of the NSW Rail Tram and Bus Union. On May 20 they finally got the majority of Sydney and
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Construction and maintenance workers employed by the Queensland government public works corporation Q-Build marched through city streets on May 21 to protest low wages and inequities in superannuation and working