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Unions give in on North West Shelf contracts

By Jennifer Thompson The ACTU and Australian Workers Union-Federation of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering Employees (AWU-FIMEE) on November 3 agreed with Woodside Petroleum on the introduction of non-union "enterprise flexibility agreements"

Action updates

BRISBANE — Queensland sugar industry workers walked off the job at midnight on October 31 in support of fellow unionists at MIM Holdings after an Industrial Relations Commission decision to reduce the number of unions covering the mining operations

Russian day of action demands back wages

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Hundreds of thousands of workers took part in nationally coordinated demonstrations on October 27, demanding that the government pay wage arrears and combat unemployment. In addition, workplace meetings and

Toxic cover-up: a million tonnes of poison

By Zanny Begg SYDNEY — In 1982 Alan Mills moved to Londonderry to find a peaceful plot on which to relax and grow native trees. Mills, who teaches maths at the local school, soon found that relaxing was the last thing he was going to be doing

Aristide calls for respect for the law

With the novelty of the US troop presence ebbing and with President Aristide holed up in the National Palace, the hard reality and underlying purpose of the second US occupation of Haiti are becoming clear. The Haitian people have begun to see

Sandinistas: 'Political differences are normal'

By Stephen Marks MANAGUA — Victor Hugo Tinoco is head of the International Relations Department of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). He was the Managua party secretary until the May congress, and previously served as deputy

Nostradamus' Media Watch

By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Films banned for

Fire with water

Fire with water By Melinda Jollie Naomi Wolf, the respectable darling of liberal feminism, author of the 1991 best-seller The Beauty Myth and the recent Fire With Fire, will be speaking in Sydney later this month to espouse her "power

Loose cannons

Peaceful penguins "[The 1987 defence white paper] also forecast that any threat to Australia would most likely come from the north." — Sydney Morning Herald, November 1. Demanding job "I think it's true that the Westminster system demands