By Steve Rogers
CANBERRA — Public Sector Union members in the ACT have delivered a stunning rebuff to the incumbent leadership in the current branch executive elections. The PSU Challenge team campaigned on a wide range of issues including
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By John Clancy
The 30-year US blockade of Cuba, recently condemned by the United Nations General Assembly, fits into a long history of US interference with the island. This is excellently summarised in Noam Chomsky's book Year 501, which devotes
Unexpected
"A very disappointing result and most unexpected. We will go on, because we are fighting a battle for the civil liberties in this country." — Entrepreneur John Elliott on the Federal Court's refusal to stop the National Crime Authority
By Norm Dixon
A new opinion poll, released in early November, predicts that the National Party (NP) will be thrashed in the April 27 general elections. The poll, by Integrated Marketing Research, was specially weighted to include squatters,
Police on November 19 shot dead Raimal Punya Vasave, a 15-year-old tribal youth, during a protest against the giant Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River in Maharashtra state. Three other tribal people were seriously injured.
The villagers
Hindmarsh picket continues
ADELAIDE — Support for the Friends of Goolwa and Kumarangk — opposing the proposed Hindmarsh Island bridge and associated developments — is growing.
Unions supporting this broad coalition now include all
By Freddy Alexis in Jakarta and Max Lane
On November 25 the Suharto regime finally gave in to demands of demonstrators who had been protesting for several weeks against a decision to extend the life of a state lottery system notorious for its
Vic Trades Hall doges campaign on holidays
By Jason Cheng
MELBOURNE — A Victorian Trades Hall Council shop stewards/job delegates meeting on November 24 voted to endorse action against the Kennett government's latest attacks on Workcover
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