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CUBA: Socialist government guarantees workers' rights

Gilda Chacon, head of the international section (Asia-Pacific Region) of the Cuban Federation of Workers (CTC) and a member of the Cuban parliament, is touring Australia at the invitation of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union

Cuban unionist: 'solidarity is oxygen for us'

Annolies Truman, Perth Cuban and Australian unionists pledged to step up mutual solidarity at a public meeting on July 15 with Gilda Chacon, head of the international section (Asia-Pacific Region) of the Cuban Federation of Workers. Chacon, who

ACEH: Government declares sixteen organisations 'illegal'

James Balowski, Jakarta Less than two weeks after the House of Representatives passed the Aceh governance bill — which the government says will pave the way for greater autonomy in Indonesia's northern-most province — on June 21, the Aceh

SOUTH AFRICA: Tripartite Alliance reaping what it has sown

Dale T. McKinley, Johannesburg The alliance is dead! Long live the alliance! That about sums up the politics of the organisational marriage between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of

Further set back for Coles workers

In the wake of the sacking of 1000 warehouse workers in Sydney and Melbourne by Coles, the company has further betrayed those sacked. After suggesting that positions would be available for those workers wanting to be redeployed, it announced on July