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[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an
Inessa, Lenin's Mistress By Michael Pearson Duckworth, 2001 257 pages, $65.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When Inessa Armand met Vladimir Lenin in a Paris caf‚ in 1909, so began one of the most speculated about love affairs on the
BY KAMALA EMANUEL  HOBART — Four hundred nurses rallied on the Parliament House lawns on May 25 to protest the failure of the state Labor government to live up to an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) under which all nurses with
BY SHANE BENTLEY SYDNEY — Striking workers at the Dayson compressor maintenance plant in Rydalmere have rejected a management offer of a 4% pay increase in August and a further 2% in December, as part of a non-union agreement. The workers have
ALP ranks respond to mass pressure on refugees The rumblings in the ranks of the ALP about the partyÂ’s disgusting sell-out of refugees are increasing. In Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, ALP state conferences passed motions
GLW #494 incorrectly stated that Doug Cameron is the national president of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. He is the national secretary. GLW apologises for the error. From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, June 5, 2002. Visit the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
BY EVA CHENG The rulers of India and Pakistan — both nuclear-armed allies of Washington in the US-led "war on terrorism" — are terrorising each other with the threat of nuclear war. The Pentagon estimates that a full-scale nuclear exchange
BY SUE BOLTON The ballot for the position of national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union food and con- fectionary division has still not been decided. The ballot closed on May 20 and counting was carried out on May
[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — Supporters of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly are once again having to defend their right to distribute the papers in public space. The latest attack on that right has come from Mindil Beach Sunset Markets Association (MBSMA). GLW
BY TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — A non-violent blockade of a meeting featuring immigration minister Philip Ruddock, extreme right-wing Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt and anti-immigration academic Bob Birrell was violently attacked by police in front
BY ROHAN PEARCE Media-monitoring group Electronic Intifada has released a report by Nigel Parry into media coverage of the April 2-May 10 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, during which seven Palestinians were killed, and