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Bronwyn Jennings, Melbourne One hundred delegates and council members attended the Australian Education Union's Victorian state conference on July 16. Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Brian Boyd condemned Howard's planned industrial
The TakeBy Avi Lewis and Naomi KleinBarner Alpa Productions/National Film Board of Canada, 2004 REVIEW BY SEAN CAIN With the popularity of such documentaries as Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's The Corporation and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit
Eva Cheng The June 23 US$18.5 billion proposal by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to take over US oil firm UNOCAL, an attempt to outbid a US$16.4 billion offer from the US's second biggest oil company ChevronTexaco, triggered an
Doug Lorimer The day after his landslide victory in the Kyrgyzstan's July 17 presidential election, Kurmanbek Bakiyev told a press conference the presence of a US military base in the Central Asian republic should be reconsidered. Bakiyev was the
BRISBANE — Around 400 residents and supporters of the campaign against the controversial Woolworths supermarket development in the small Sunshine Coast hinterland town of Maleny marched on July 16. The project threatens dozens of platypus burrows.
On July 2, the Workers Charter movement was founded in Auckland, New Zealand, by a group of left, union and social justice activists. The following is a draft charter for discussion and feedback. Every worker has the right to dignity, which our
The Age of Commodity: Water Privatisation in Southern AfricaEdited by David A. McDonald and Greg RuitersEarthscan, 2005303 pages, $55 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON One billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water and two billion
James Balowski, Jakarta A historic peace agreement has been reached between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) following a fifth round of negotiations in Helsinki, Finland, which ended on July 17. But strong opposition to
Nick Griffen, the leader of the far-right racist British National Party, pled not guilty on July 21 to four charges of stirring up racial hatred as a result of the July 15 BBC screening of a documentary Secret Agent, which documented an investigation
In a midnight raid on July 21, Zimbabwean police forcibly removed hundreds of homeless people from churches in Bulawayo, taking them to the Hellensvale transit camp, set up to house those made homeless by the government's crackdown on illegal
Garry Preston The Australian trade union movement and workers' rights are under attack in a way unseen in this country before. But one only needs to look across the Tasman to see what can happen to workers' rights and conditions under a right-wing
Liam Mitchell, Sydney A recent case of workers being forced to sign AWAs has ended with a victory after a two-and-a-half week campaign by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). When workers at Masterton Homes were told they