The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions, backed by South Africa's trade union movement, has announced that a three-day blockade of the tiny southern African country's border crossings will begin on November 29. The goal of the action is to force
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BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — Demonstrations and protests are a daily feature of life in Indonesia today. "Traffic jam, pak, two demos today" is a common refrain from taxi drivers. The TV news and newspapers are also peppered with reports of different
BY NORM DIXON
The Israeli military's massive November 20 air and sea missile bombardment of heavily populated residential areas in Gaza — which, with the West Bank and east Jerusalem, was invaded by Israel in 1967 — had little to do with
PT Caltex workers go on strike
On November 21, 3000 workers at PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia in Pekanbaru, in the South Sumatra province of Riau went on strike to demand a 360% increase in wages and benefits.
Recently PT Caltex has been hit by a
Picket blocks Age
MELBOURNE — A picket line imposed by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Electrical Trades Union prevented distribution of the November 23 edition of the Age.
The picket arose from a dispute around a
BY DAVE GILBERT
BANGKOK — Fifty sweatshop workers and students protested outside the Shangri La Hotel here on November 14 against the visit of golf champion and Nike sponsor Tiger Woods. They called on Nike to respect workers' rights to join
BY AHMED NIMER
Ramallah, West Bank — At the time of writing, Israeli military forces continue their brutal assault on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has bombarded Palestinian towns with rockets on a
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a GenerationBy Jeffrey MeyersNorton, 2000380pp, $39.90 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"Big Brother is watching you"; "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" — these epigrams from Nineteen
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government faces its biggest crisis
revelations over electoral rorts escalate. Te Shepherdson inquiry, established
under the auspices of the Criminal Justice Commission following the conviction
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Rough CrossingBy Tom StoppardDirected by Lloyd KingNew Theatre, SydneyThursday to Sunday until December 23$22/$15, bookings 9873 3575
Since the New Theatre's establishment in 1932, much of Sydney's alternative and radical
BY SARAH STEPHEN
PERTH — Radical left groups and activists have joined together to run in the next Western Australia state election, due early in 2001. Democratic Socialist candidates Anthony Benbow (Fremantle) and Roberto Jorquera (Perth),
Self-obligation
"... my government has sought to constantly relate ... enduring Australian values to the circumstances of our time... The first of these goes to the heart of the Australian ethos, to the heart of our national self-image and to the
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