BRISBANE — Workers at garage-door company Gliderol became a test case for Howard's new industrial relations laws. According to Darren Needham, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) delegate at Gliderol, the company refused to negotiate
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Alby Dallas
Hendrik Ervan Baldus from the People's Democratic Party of Indonesia is the chairperson of the Papuan National Student Front. He attended the 35th Resistance national conference, giving greetings from both organisations.
Baldus
Today, more people are deeply disillusioned with the capitalist system than for many decades. The permanent wars, gross inequality and ecological unsustainability of the system are undeniable. There is widespread awareness that something is
Simon Cooper, Istanbul
In three successive days, criminal investigations were launched against five leaders of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) by Turkish government authorities. The alleged crimes are of "praising and aiding" the
Andrew Hall
Nearly five years after their boats entered Australian waters, 45 Afghan asylum seekers, along with many others including children, remain trapped in dehumanising Australian-funded camps in Lombok, Indonesia.
Twenty-three-year-old
Tony Iltis, Melbourne
Following an emergency demonstration of 150 people on July 5 to call for a halt to Israel's military assault on Gaza and recognition of Palestine's national and democratic rights, a second rally supporting these demands and
MELBOURNE — The annual Network of Women Students Australia conference was held at Melbourne University on July 10-14. The national conference brought together more than 60 women students for a week of discussion around the theme "Pushing
Lisa Macdonald, Sydney
Braving heavy rain, around 100 people rallied at Sydney Town Hall on July 15 to demand "Close Guantanamo", "Stop the torture" and "Bring David Hicks home".
The action, organised by Sydney's Stop the War Coalition, the
Lisa Macdonald
The Howard government's wide-ranging assault on democratic rights was last month extended into the electoral arena. On June 22, federal parliament passed amendments to the electoral laws that make it even more difficult to challenge
The following is abridged from a statement issued on July 10 by Friends of the Earth International.
Friends of the Earth International, the Climate Justice Programme and Greenpeace have reacted angrily after the World Heritage Committee refused to
The revolutionary history of Indonesia is one of youth and student struggle against imperialism. The great radical Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer relentlessly asserted the special role revolutionary youth can play in changing the world into
Noreen Navin, Sydney
After a drawn-out absence from
Community TV Sydney (TVS), Actively Radical TV (ARTV) has
been reinstated to the community station, Channel 31. However, the conditions imposed by TVS management are unnecessarily onerous.
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