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Queensland students fight upfront fees

BY SAM KING BRISBANE — Students from the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University surrounded the UQ chancellery building on August 12. The 200-strong protest, organised by Campaign Against Fees

NIGERIA: Protests spread against ChevronTexaco

BY SAM OLUKOYA ABITEYE, Niger delta — Abiteye village lies in the heart of the Niger Delta region. American oil giant ChevronTexaco has a gas plant and an oil flow station here. But for its oil installations, the company's premises could pass

and ain't i a woman: action' in the ALP?

... and ain't i a woman: 'Affirmative action' in the ALP? The National Committee of Review's report into the Labor Party, headed by former prime minister Bob Hawke and former NSW premier Neville Wran, has been angrily criticised by the

Write On: Letters to Â鶹ӳ»­ Weekly

GLW's coverage of South Africa Mazibuko Jara, the South African Communist Party's media spokesperson, states (Write On #504) that he is "rather surprised that Â鶹ӳ»­ Weekly seems to have taken a stance not to engage the SACP in a comradely and

Health workers prepare 24-hour strike

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Public hospitals in Queensland face another 24-hour strike within weeks unless the state government boosts its wages offer to non-nursing staff. Union delegates for Queensland Health employees on August 15 resolved to

A party rotting from within

BY PETER SYKES [Former Queensland Democrats state leader Peter Sykes knows all about compliance committees and getting the boot for speaking his mind. Now a veteran of the Australian Greens, he follows up his April 1998 GLW article which asked,

South Africa: SACP congress reaffirms support for ANC

BY DALE T. MCKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Not far from the predominately working-class Northwest Province town of Rustenburg, where the South African Communist Party (SACP) recently held its 11th congress on July 24-28, lies the garish ramparts

Sydney Social Forum launched

BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — On August 15, 80 people attended an information night at the Tom Mann Theatre to learn more about the upcoming Sydney Social Forum, which will be held on September 21-22 at the University of Technology, Sydney. Two

'No gladiators there!'

BY JOE MCDONALD I attended the [Western Australian] state conference of the ALP back in June. All in all, I've got to say that it was a pretty disillusioning experience — and it left me feeling frustrated as hell! So I went back home and in

Building unionist threatened with jail

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — As the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry began sitting again in Melbourne, a union leader has been threatened with imprisonment, a former union leader has condemned union activities and 5000

Progressives do well in NTEU election

BY JEREMY SMITH BALLARAT — Progressives have done well in the July 10-22 National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) elections. In the poll for national office bearers, the incumbents were returned. Carolyn Allport was returned as

Cameron sics lawyers on to GLW

BY SUE BOLTON At 2.30pm on August 7, Â鶹ӳ»­ Weekly received an email from Taylor & Scott, lawyers acting on behalf of Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron, in which they demanded that an article