Issue No 121 | 30 November 2001 | |
NewsActivists Notebook
All the latest details on actions, workshops and conferences for anyone interested in labour politics. ******************** REFUGEE RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS Speakers; Doug Cameron, National Secretary AMWU, Salbatore Scevole Ethnic Communities Council, Thang Ngo, Failfield Councillor and Unity Spokesperson, Mas Lane, Action in solidarity with Asia-Pacific MONDAY 3 DEC, 7PM Granville Town Hall Carlton St Granville Organised by Free the Refugees Campaign ***************** Book Launch 'Together With Us' a personal glimpse of the Eureka Youth League, 1920 -1970 will be launched on the 9th February, at 2.30 pm Writer's Centre, Callen Park, Rozelle. Drinks and nibbles plus old friends will be provided. Enter opposite Cecily St and follow signs. Copies of the book, 264 pp + 20 photographs at $25.00+ packing & postage can be obtained from Barrie Blears, 23 Mount St, Leura, 2780. Cheques and money orders only. Available February. The EYL had a long history of association with the Trade Union movement. Barrie Blears. ************* An evening with John Pilger 8:00pm Friday 14 December Valhalla Cinema, 166 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Contact: Action in solidarity with the Asian Pacific. 9690 1032 or 1800 634 206 www.asiet.org.au
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Interview: Back to the Battle Federal Labor's new industrial relations spokesman Robert McClelland outlines the challenges for the next three years. Politics: The Baby and the Bath Water ACTU secretary Greg Combet gives his take on the debate over the ALP's relations with the union movement. Unions: We're Solid Bradon Ellem charts the history of the Pilbara dispute, and finds a revitalised grass-roots unionism challenging BHP's individual contracts bulldozer Organising: Benidgo Pioneer Comes Up Trumps ACTU Delegate of the Year, Leonie Saunders, is living proof of the way unions are adapting to life under the strictures of a hostile Government. Technology: India: Cricket, Computers and Corruption Russell Lansbury cuts through the hype to look out the so-called hi-tech revolution on the sub-continent. International: Soul Searching The party of labour in Canada � the NDP - is right now undergoing a massive struggle for its heart and soul. History: A Timeless Debate The ALP and unions - it's a debate that's raged for years as this extract from a 1947 Lloyd Ross pamplet shows. Review: In Fear of Security Launching his new book, Anthony Burke argues that the cry of "security" is the last refuge of the political scoundrel
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