The ILO Asian and Pacific Regional Workers Education Seminar on the Social and Economic Services of Trade Unions was held in Singapore from October 5th to 15th 1983. The Seminar was jointly sponsored by the ILO and the Singapore National Trade Union Congress (SNTUC).
The prevention of war is a goal that everyone is, at least theoretically and emotionally, in favour of. However, when it comes to questions of ‘how can this be achieved?’ and, in given situations, ‘What should be done?’ there is a chatter of confusion.
When Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon was published in France its importance could be measured by the French Communist Party’s response, which was to purchase thousands as they ran off the press for the sole purpose of burning and destroying them.
After reading B.A. Santamaria’s criticisms of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace’s policy statement on World Disarmament I am more than ever convinced that peace advocates should be careful in their arguments.
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and called upon all member countries to publicise the text of the declaration widely. Today, 32 years later, there are countries where trade unions are banned outright.
Open your newspapers any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable able to his or her government.
25,000 people “disappear” in one country and 15,000 in another; in a third, a trade unionist is detained by police for the 24th time in two years; in a fourth, released prisoners tell of the torture of a 14-month old baby girl held with her mother in a clandestine military camp for the “disappeared.”
Bob Carr’s article (Bulletin, November 13) concerning the decision by the management consultants J.P. Young to coach businesses on how to lock their doors to trade unions was excellent reading.
Dr Cairns has been accused of obscurantism because his writings are supposed to be infected with distorting ideological conceptions;1 facts are the Ark of the Covenant, and Cairns evades the empirical evidence likely to contradict his views. It is the purpose of this paper to:
Published in Wide Open, Sydney Technical High School Journal, St George Call, Kogarah [Sydney], 1972. Awarded school Literature Prize.