Dave Holmes
For the past two months Melbourne's Age newspaper, owned by the Fairfax media group, has been energetically campaigning for free public transport in the city. Former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett — who privatised public
668
Grant Morgan, Auckland
Slap workers in the face and call it a helping hand. That's the strategy behind a "work probation" bill sponsored by National Party MP Wayne Mapp.
Ross Wilson, president of the NZ Council of Trade Unions (CTU), wrote in an
The Great Labor Schism: a retrospectiveedited by Brian Costar, Peter Love & Paul Strangio Scribe, 2005 384 pages, $35 (pb)
REVIEW BY MATTHEW LAMB
Although the essays collected in The Great Labor Schism are said to be a retrospective of the
The New Caledonian islands lie 1200 kilometres off the east coast of Australia. A French territory that is co-governed by a provincial New Caledonian parliament and the French government, New Caledonia (or Kanaky) is a biodiversity
Graham Matthews
The Coalition's 11th budget delivered on May 9, which gave tax cuts to all, was an attempt to distract us from the Australian Wheat Board scandal, Work Choices, and rising fuel and mortgage costs. But of the $36.7 billion to be
NEWCASTLE — On May 12, 80 residents rallied outside the government's planning department office to protest developer Hardie Holdings' proposal to construct a "village" on a 2300-hectare site between North Rothbury and Branxton, with 28,000
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
Paramilitaries infiltrated across the border from Colombia have murdered 1700 people in the south-western region of Venezuela over the past two years, according to Luis Tascon, the May 5 daily Diario Vea
Doug Lorimer
Newly elected Solomon Islands Prime Minister Mannasseh Sogavare hit out on May 7 at Australian leaders for interfering in the internal affairs of the archipelago-nation after they publicly criticised his decision to include two
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
"The Venezuelan revolution is a very popular mobilisation, which was revealed especially in the opposition to the counter-revolutionary coup in April 2002 and the bosses' strike of early 2003", Pedro Eusse,
Solidarity rallies took place in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne as part of a May 20 international day of solidarity with Venezuela and Cuba. The day was initiated by social justice and solidarity groups in the US opposed to their
The Vote: How It Was Won And How It Was UnderminedBy Paul FootViking (Penguin) 2005
506 pages
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
Paul Foot, who died in July 2004, began this ambitious book in 1990, and completed it shortly before his death, having been
James Crafti
On May 12 Sydney resident Phillip Reiss was shot with a "rubber" bullet in the back of the head while demonstrating in the Palestinian village of Bil'in. The misleadingly named "rubber bullet" — a metal cylinder covered by a
- Page 1
- Next page