BY ALEX MILNE
MELBOURNE
The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry hosted
a conference on construction industry safety on September 19 and 20. The
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the
510
BY NORM DIXON
Iraq's surprise decision on September 16 to accept the return of
UN weapons inspectors was the last thing US President George Bush wanted.
It deprived his administration of a key pretext one that is convincing
enough to
BY CHRIS WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG Illawarra Greens candidate Michael Organ won an historic
15% of the vote in the Wollongong lord mayoral by-election on September
14. The humiliating defeat inflicted on ALP candidate Bob Proudfoot, who
won
ADELAIDE: Picket against war on Iraq. Saturday October 28, noon. Outside foreign minister Alexander Downer's office, 100 King William Street, city. To get involved in the campaign against war on Iraq, phone NOWAR on (08) 8332 4861.
BRISBANE: Rally
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG In a show of people's power, 6000 residents of KwaMasiza Hostel in Sebokeng reoccupied their homes on September 12 after being forcibly evicted a day earlier by thugs employed by a company partly owned by African
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY A campaign has begun to pressure the Indonesian government to release detained British-born Australian academic Lesley McCulloch and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler. The women's interpreter, Fitra bin Amin, has already been
BY ALISON DELLIT
"We have allies and Australia is an ally. And I think it's good to always recognise the contributions that allies make and we've had no greater contribution [to the War on Terror] from anywhere in the world than the contribution
The right medicine
Regarding John Percy's article, "DSP discusses major left unity initiative" (GLW #508) on the DSP's national executive's September 2 decision to propose to its membership to liquidate publicly in 2003, and put all available
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said on September 18 that
they are seeking substantial autonomy and self-government in the Tamil
homeland and expressed optimism that a solution to
Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could be worked out by
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against
the World's Most Famous ScientistBy Fred JeromeSt. Martin's Press, 2002358 pages, $40 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When "communism" was the official flavour-of-the-month threat in the US,
BY CHRIS SLEE
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers around Australia, members
of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), went on strike for two
hours on the morning of September 18. The strike followed the breakdown
of
BY
MAX LANE
MANILA More than 450 delegates representing more than 100,000 workers
gathered in Baguio City on September 14-15 to plan out their campaign of
resistance to the neo-liberal globalisation offensive hitting Filipino
workers.
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