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Blue Mountains turn red

BY SUSAN BARLEY SYDNEY — "From the Sierra Maestra mountains to the Blue Mountains" was the theme of the inaugural Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly solidarity dinner in the Blue Mountains, held at the Mid-Mountains Community Centre on July 28. Ricardo Andino

Feast inside, soup kitchen outside

BY SEAN HEALY SYDNEY — The contrast was obvious and deliberate. Inside, in the warmth of the luxury ANA Hotel, was World Bank president James Wolfensohn lecturing a $150-a-plate dinner on the joys of "globalisation"; outside, in the cold and

INDONESIA: 'I just don't believe in her'

BY PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER I don't blame President Sukarno for my arrest in the early 1960s. I blame the army. But being a political prisoner in the early 1960s was very different from being a captive of later regimes. Sukarno's political opponents

COLOMBIA: US fuels dirty war against unions

Castro Zapata, Julio Alberto Otero, ADIDA, United Steel Workers of America, Dan Kovalik, Leo Gerard, USWA, DAVID BACON"> COLOMBIA: US fuels dirty war against unions BY DAVID BACON The Bush administration's call to step up US reliance on fossil

INDONESIA: Free the Bandung 19

Urgent solidarity action is needed from supporters of democracy worldwide to secure the release of activists held by police for organising against the Indonesian regime. Particularly urgent is the case of the Bandung 19, who have imprisoned as

Laborites admit error on agency bargaining

BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — The Community and Public Sector Union branch conference here on July 26 voted to support centralised bargaining for wages and "core conditions" in the federal public service. It accepted the need for "some flexibility"

Knowledge Nation: Labor's plan to corporatise universities

BY VIV MILEY 2001 began with allegations that full fee-paying students' marks were being adjusted upwards, bending the rules to encourage more income from fee-paying students. While the allegations have not been fully resolved, it left egg on the

Activists in training for blockade

BY DIANA RANKIN MELBOURNE — This city's 19 consecutive weekly blockades of Nike superstore, and the coming Commonwealth Business Forum protest on October 3, prompted Resistance activists to get into training on July 28. Resistance activist

Incat workers fight on

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has called for a 5% pay rise for Incat workers, following the July 24 announcement that Incat has won a contract with the US military. The contract involves chartering

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Students launch hunger strike

BY SEAN HEALY At least a dozen students at the University of Papua New Guinea in the capital, Port Moresby, have launched a hunger strike to demand the removal from the country of representatives of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Long-grass and proud

BY RICK MOLON DARWIN — A boisterous 120-strong crowd met outside Parliament House at lunchtime on August 3 to protest against the recently passed Northern Territory Public Order and Anti-Social Conduct Act. The act will empower police to

Raids on 'illegal' workers a denial of rights

BY SARAH STEPHEN While hunting for the 46 escapees from Villawood detention centre, immigration officials raided a factory in a western suburb of Sydney, arresting 21 immigrants they claim were working illegally. The group was taken to Villawood on