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Legal action for West Papuan refugee

Law firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques has taken legal action against the Howard government to force it to make an immediate decision on the application for refugee status of David Wainggai, the only one of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who arrived

Ben Harper: expressing the anger from the US

Both Sides of The GunBen HarperVirgin Records REVIEW BY DUNCAN MEERDING "You whip the back of freedom till it bleeds an oil streamAnd you sailed down upon it in your killing machineOld men who send children off to die in vainThey will hear

Council caves in to right-wing Vietnamese

John Percy SYDNEY — Fairfield City Council has caved in to pressure from the right-wing Vietnamese Community in Australia (VCA) and agreed to the group hoisting the defunct flag of the old Saigon regime on council land on three occasions each

PHILIPPINES: International investigation into labour killings

Delegates from 12 countries, including Australia, will visit the Philippines in early May to investigate the killings of union leaders and the repression of worker activists. Some of the cases to be looked into include the recent killing of United

NEPAL: Anti-monarchy struggle at a crossroads

Eva Cheng Seeking to break the increasingly explosive momentum of nearly three weeks of continuous mass protests and strikes despite shot-to-kill military curfews, on April 24 Nepal's King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah announced on national television

'Let's fill the streets this May Day'

Chris Williams, Wollongong Being part of the May Day protests this year is more crucial than ever, south-coast trade union legend Fred Moore told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. "This year we've seen the most devastating industrial laws come in; our very

Racism by any other name

Live and BecomeWritten and directed by Radu MihailenauWith Yael Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Mosche Abebe and Sirak M SabahatScreening nationally REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE AND LACHLAN MALLOCH Romanian-Franco Jewish writer-director Radu

SOUTH AFRICA: 'We guard billions, but are paid peanuts'

Leo Zeilig, Johannesburg Brian Mfisa starts work at 6am each day for the international security firm Chubb. He guards a large house in the wealthy suburb of Melrose in Johannesburg. Brian sits in a small wooden box — a "guard hut" — that is

Join the fight-back contingents on May Day

Alex Bainbridge & Raul Bassi, Sydney This year's May Day march will be the first opportunity for a major show of public opposition to the Howard government's new anti-worker legislation since it became law. More than 70% of Australian oppose the

VENEZUELA: Revolutionary unionists get organised

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas A March 30 meeting of almost 1000 Venezuelan trade unionists decided to organise a national congress in May of the National Union of Workers (UNT) — the major national confederation of militant and

IRAN: No pay-off yet for Washington's UN manoeuvres

Doug Lorimer The veto-welding permanent members of the UN Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the US — remained divided over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program following the council's receipt on April 28 of a report from

Students to strike against Work Choices

Emma Clancy Inspired by the example of the French students and workers who defeated their government's attacks on young workers with mass mobilisations, the socialist youth organisation Resistance has called for a student strike against Work