Iraq's strike wave
Reprinted from Solidarity 3/68facebooktwittergoogle+whatsappemailprintPublications: WL Aus 37Around the world: IraqTrade Unions: Iraqi trade unions
View ArticleAfter the new economy
Doug Henwood's book After the New Economy in review (New York, The New Press, 2003)Doug Henwood, is an independent leftwing economic commentator and critic of capitalism. He edits of the Left Business...
View ArticleBoss watch
By Lynn SmithBYE BYE AMERICAN PIE In its last days, Iraq’s US appointed interim administration mysteriously transferred US$500 million to an obscure bank in Lebanon. The loot was quietly removed from...
View ArticleElections unleash employers
Bosses seek longer hours, more exploitation, by Wayne Sonter, from Shorter Work Week News No. 26 Jan 2005Voters in Australia and United States - two countries whose workforces already work the longest...
View ArticleAustralia/Iraq Trade Union Solidarity (AUSIRAQ)
A Sydney group has been formed to raise money for and build links with Iraqi unions. In July a meeting initiated by Workers Liberty held at the Gaelic Club led to the formation of the Australia/Iraq...
View ArticleFree the Liaoyang Two!
An appeal for Chinese worker activistsXiao Yunliang and Yao Fuxin were arrested in March 2002 for leading 30,000 laid-off workers from the Liaoyang Ferro-Alloy Plant, and other local factories, in...
View ArticleIsrael/Palestine: "all of us will pay"
At the same meeting in which it decided to implement the disengagement from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government took an even more important decision: to complete the wall in the West Bank.As of now,...
View ArticleTsunami relief: social justice not just charity
The scale of the current crisis has as much to do with poverty and injustice as with 'nature'. Trade unions play an important role in education, health and community initiatives across the world that...
View ArticleThe Queensland BLF
Bob Carnegie discusses union organisation. Read the article here.facebooktwittergoogle+whatsappemailprintPublications: WL Aus 37Around the world: AustraliaTrade Unions: Union organising
View ArticleThe Australian labour movement today
The Australian labour movement is in deep trouble. Not just the left wing, or the radicals, but the whole movement.According to the ACTU: "Latest union membership figures show around 25% of them are in...
View ArticleHoward's plan: smash unions
Is it the industrial relations system that Howard is out to smash, or is it the industrial power of unions?"It seems incredible that we would see a hundred years of a fair system that has underpinned...
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