BY LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY — Spearheaded by the Sydney Morning Herald, the corporate media has launched an attack on the display of union solidarity which helped 40 strikers at the Morris McMahon can manufacturing plant win their dispute.
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BY CHANTAL CARUSO The Western Australian Labor government has conceded that its contentious Prostitution Control Bill will not be passed by the upper house, and has therefore decided to shelve the bill. Through the bill, police minister Michelle
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The Wilderness Society has relaunched a major campaign to save the Styx "Valley of the Giants" from logging on the 20th anniversary of the High Court's confirmation of the legality of the government's decision to
BY DOUG LORIMER
Nigeria remains locked in a general strike, after talks between the government and the country's main trade union federation, the Nigerian Labour Congress, broke down on July 3. "The strike continues", declared NLC president Adams
BY JEFF SHANTZ
The death toll from the ongoing war in the Congo, which began in 1998, is higher than in any other since World War II, with an estimated 4.7 million killed in the last four years alone. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), an
"Far too many young boys are growing up without proper role models", a concerned John Howard told parliament on June 24. "They are not infrequently in the overwhelming care and custody of their mothers", the prime minister added, motivating a
BY JOHN PILGER
America's two "great victories" since September 11, 2001, are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without US guns. Al Qaeda has not been defeated, and
BY LYNETTE DUMBLE MELBOURNE — Tahmeena Faryal from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), and Surma Hamid from the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights (CDIWR), will speak at a public forum at Trades Hall on
BY EVA CHENG
Between 500,000 and 700,000 people flooded the streets of Hong Kong on July 1, in an angry protest against the scheduled finalisation of an anti-subversion law on July 9.
The Hong Kong government pressed ahead with the legislation,
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS MELBOURNE — More than 700 workers mobilised on July 3 at Footscray's Whitten Oval, as part of a campaign to win a new enterprise bargaining agreement across the Victorian manufacturing industry. This round of pattern
BY KEIRAN LATTY
Danny Fairfax's article "profiting from death" (GLW #543) rightly highlights the relationship between arms spending and the economy, but the picture is more complex than he paints.
In the past, military expenditure and war have
The Indonesian government has an almost "pathological hostility to separatism", Dr Ed Aspinall, lecturer in South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University, told a forum on July 2.
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