by Greg Patmore, Rae Cooper | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
“The critical role of active workplace organising in building the success of the Australian labour movement has become a neglected part of our history … The[ese] papers take a fresh look at the simplistic notion that Australian trade union successes have...
by Frank Stilwell | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Looking back on 2002The year has been dominated by international security issues – the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the war on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the Bali bombings, and the threatened war on Iraq. These international concerns have...
by Frank Stilwell | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Reflections on 50 issues of JAPEThe publication of the fiftieth issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy is an appropriate moment to reflect on the state of political economy. JAPE began twenty-five years ago as an outlet for critical alternatives to...
by Ron Dyer | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Valedictory speechThe Hon Michael Egan (Treasurer, Minister for State Development, and Vice-President of the Executive Council): … I thank all honourable members for their assistance and co-operation throughout the year. In particular, I thank the eight members...
by Michael T. Klare | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Deciphering the Bush administration’s motivesThe United States is about to go to war with Iraq. As of this writing, there are 60,000 US troops already deployed in the area around Iraq, and another 75,000 or so are on their way to the combat zone. Weapons...
by Michael Scott Doran | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Call it a city on four legsheading for murder …New York is a womanholding, according to history,a rag called liberty with one handand strangling the earth with the other.-Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said],”The Funeral of New York,” 1971In the weeks after the...
