GLW issue 494, published 2002-05-29.

GERMANY: 'Peace for the world - pretzels for Bush'

'Peace for the world - pretzels for Bush' A crowd of 50,000-70,000 rallied on May 21 in Berlin against George Bush's phony �war on terror�, preparing to give the US president a not so much warm as heated �welcome� to the city when he arrived

Labor Party members discuss refugee policy

BY IGGY KIM SYDNEY — "If it wasn't for the Tampa, we'd have a Labor government today", former NSW premier Neville Wran told a May 23 Labor for Refugees forum which heard calls for an end to the government's present policy towards asylum seekers.

Write on: Letters to the editor

CFMEU Gary McCarthy's tirade against the CFMEU NSW construction division [Write On, GLW #486] cannot go unanswered. The CFMEU does not claim to have led the anti-apartheid movement or the green bans of the 1970s. The Building Workers

Ruddock continues persecution of Kayanis

BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — Relatives of Shahraz Kayani, who died as a result of setting himself alight on the Parliament House forecourt on April 2, 2001, have been prevented from coming to Australia on the anniversary of his death. On May 27,

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Australian News

CMG Meatworkers strike

BY TERRICA STRUDWICK ROCKHAMPTON — On May 23 employees at Consolidated Meat Group's Lakes Creek plant called a 24-hour work stoppage. As from May 24, the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) members at the plant will cease doing

'Trust us, vote for a non-union agreement'

BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — Government heavy Tony Abbott is asking the workers of his own department, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), to trust him, even as he seeks to reduce employee conditions and to introduce

Further Australian News

International News

BRITAIN: The great betrayal

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — In his first few weeks as prime minister, Tony Blair made a number of symbolic gestures. One of them was to visit the Aylesbury estate in South London, where the poor lived. The stairs of the rough-cast concrete estate

INDIA: Attacks on terrorised Gujarat victims step up

BY EVA CHENG In Gujarat state, where since February Hindu fundamentalist violence has killed more than 2000 people, mostly Muslims, and terrorised many thousands more, the local government plans to force 100,000 Muslim refugees out of relief camps.

Further International News

Editorial

Breach the corporate bludgers!

In another predictable round of dole bludger bashing, federal employment minister Mal Brough announced on May 19 that government-commissioned research, largely based on Centrelink surveys, had shown that some 16% of the unemployed were "cruisers" —

Cultural Dissent

Two stories of a nation's struggle for freedom

REVIEW BY JON LAND This is a two-part series looking at how two different individuals begin new lives in East Timor following the August 31, 1999 referendum on independence. Rosa's Story, which screened on May 23, is a particularly moving account

Targets, London 1850

The dullest of records were old Factory Reports bound, called �Blue Books�. List of figures, translations of workers' lives tossed about in debate and later boredom. Members of Parliament used these for target practice (the force of

Further Cultural Dissent

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