BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — How can you fight the boss for a pay rise when the boss locks you out of work for the next six months? This is the question workers had to grapple with at Brownbuilt, an office furniture factory in Oakleigh South.
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BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
Filled with excitement, anticipation and a fair amount of anxiety, I arrived at 6am outside Melbourne's Crown Casino on Monday, September 11 to meet up with the other marshals from the S11 Alliance to organise the blockade of
BY TYRION PERKINS
CANBERRA — On the border of the ACT lies Mount Jerrabomberra, a landmark of Queanbeyan and one of the last mountains in the region with rare native plant species. Despite its listing as National Estate by the Australian Heritage
Bougainville leaders have warned that the "peace process" may collapse if the PNG government and island leaders do not return to the negotiating table soon to resume the stalled negotiations on the future of the province.
Bougainville provincial
Using the n-word
In an article in the September 28 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, entitled "Racial slur case should caution all teachers", an overly sympathetic Mary MacDonald reports that: "The story of a [W]hite Cobb County teacher disciplined
BY MERRILYN TREASURE
SYDNEY — Having won liberation after 25 years of struggle, the East Timorese people's first challenge is to defend their right to freedom, East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao told 500 people at a "Peace and Justice in East
Workers demonstrate against thugs
On November 6, around 250 demonstrators from the Solidarity Front demonstrated outside the East Java provincial parliament in Surabaya. They were protesting against the stabbing of a fellow worker by hired thugs
The UN General Assembly on November 9 overwhelmingly passed a resolution urging that all countries refuse to comply with the 38-year-long US blockade of Cuba. It passed with the support 167 votes, with only the US, Israel and the Marshall Islands
BY CLAIRE FLYNNAND KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The "Grim Reaper" and a paper mache "loan shark" were among the 70 people at a protest, organised by the Adelaide S11 Alliance, outside an address by the managing director of the World Bank, Dr Mamphele
BY GIANNI RIGACCI
It is incontestable that the first half of the 1970s represented a cleavage in the evolution of the world economy: we then entered into what some economists defined as a long wave of stagnation. Nonetheless, since about the
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The trials of refugees charged with involvement in August's protest at the Woomera detention camp will begin on December 18, and continue daily through January. The charged refugees are being held in the Adelaide Remand
A SHORT STORY BY RACHEL LAREDNI
Watch them travel in metallic wombs, speeding along veins of the city weaving their way through metal and concrete into the heart of the grand Mecca of capitalism. Tidy men of smooth shaven faces absorbed in the lies
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