Chris is a labour law researcher, specialising in China and the right to strike. He spent 27 years in the SA union movement. Chris now lives in Canberra. More →
XANANA – Leader of the Struggle for Independent Timor-Leste
by Sara Niner
(Australian Scholarly Publishing)
Reviewer: Andy Alcock
Australia East Timor Friendship Association SA Inc
As a person who has been involved in the solidarity movement for East Timor since the middle of 1975, I was very excited to learn that Sara Niner had written a book about Jose Alexandre [...]
mobilizing model produces unions that are directed by fulltime paid staff, in which workers play a subordinate role. At worst, workers become almost irrelevant in a numbers game in which the size of the union is what counts, rather than creating an organization they can learn to use to challenge the employer at work to win better wages and conditions.
BOOK REVIEW by Andy Alcock: “THE LONG PATROL – AUSTRALIA & EAST TIMOR’S WARS” by Richard Plunkett (Black Dog Books 2008) $16.95
Since Timor Leste gained its independence in 1999, it seems that there is a never ending stream of books being written about the country. This is probably the case because not [...]
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