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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
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
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COLOMBIA: US fuels dirty war against unions
BY DAVID BACON
The Bush administration's call to step up US reliance on fossil
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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.
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