MUA election issues begin to surface
By Dick Nichols
Last week, seafarer members of the Maritime Union of Australia attending their monthly stop-work meeting were given the latest issue of Voice, the journal of the Maritime Unionists Socialist
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By Sarah Lantz
MELBOURNE — One of the bitterest disputes in the history of the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Union was resolved on February 5. Victory for the union members at Australian Dyeing Company (ADC) came after 67 days on the picket
SYDNEY — On March 3, Legal Aid's Children's Legal Service convened a meeting to discuss the announcement by the Ombudsman's Office of a inquiry into serious allegations against management and staff at the Kariong Detention Centre. The centre is the
Company sacks 550 meatworkers
By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — Five hundred and fifty meatworkers in the small town of Murray Bridge were sacked following the sale of Metro meatworks to the Adelaide-based CR&S. Workers at the plant were stood
Mermaid AvenueBilly Bragg and WilcoWarner Music Review by James Smith
"The world is filled with people who are no longer needed/ And who try to make slaves of us/ And they have their music and we have ours/ Theirs, the wasted songs of a
The after-death experience
The American Way of Death RevisitedBy Jessica MitfordVirago, 1998282 pp., $39.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
It's funerals today, something else tomorrow, warned Mortuary Management in 1961 about the perils of reform of
By Yakov Ben Efrat
Abdallah Ocalan, the revered leader of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), was abducted from Nairobi on February 15 by the Turkish Special Forces. The event spurred worldwide protests. Ocalan represents 20 million Kurds in
By Margaret Allum
In February, a French court sentenced a Malian woman to eight years'
imprisonment for the “mutilation of minors” — the circumcision of 48 girls.
Although most had been circumcised more than 10 years ago, the defendant
By Zanny Begg
On March 31, thousands of students took to the streets in rallies across Australia against the voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation. The rallies were a vibrant rebuttal of the Liberals' claim of majority support for VSU.
Profiting from rape
According to Rekha Pande, the women's studies course vice-president at Hyderabad in India, the country's Prime Minister had a special ugadi (new year) gift for women on March 19. In collaboration with insurance companies, the
Is the Communist Manifesto still relevant?
The Communist ManifestoBy Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsWith a commentary by Leon TrotskyResistance Books, 199880pp., $6.95 (pb) Review by Chris Slee
Generations of socialists have read the Moscow
By Iain Clacher
The true story of Di and Frances illustrates the hidden horror couples can face when politicians lock them out of the law simply because they are gay. Di and Frances were partners. They lived, paid bills and slept together for more
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