BY STEPHEN MARKS
NEWCASTLE — Thanks to international working-class solidarity, 160 Southland Colliery workers near Cessnock are reported to have won their entitlements back after the collapse of the Colrack Group on January 10.
Colrack's parent
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PORTO ALEGRE — The World Social Forum was awash with debates. Lack of space prevents anything like a full account of these (some of which will be covered in future issues of Green Left Weekly), but among the most important were:
The state of the
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Traditional dances were performed outside Cairns District Court on January 31 to celebrate the acquittal of two Torres Strait Islanders charged with robbing a group of commercial fishers.
Benjamin Ali Nona and George
BY BARBARA WHELAN
PERTH — Residents of Burt Way, East Perth are outraged over Perth City Council's plan to demolish the housing in their street to make way for luxury high rise apartments.
Local resident Karen Kinsett told Green Left Weekly
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — The National Union of Students (NUS) education committee met on January 25 to plan its campaigns for 2001.
One of the main issues discussed was how NUS should respond to the Labor Party's federal election policy
BY PETER BOYLE
The Democratic Socialist Party's appeal for a socialist electoral
alliance to stand common candidates in the next federal elections has met
with an enthusiastic response from the activist left.
So far the International
BY NORM DIXON
An international gathering of scientists in Shanghai mid-January presented a report revealing that global warming caused by the emission of greenhouse gases could result in the atmosphere's temperature rising by almost 6°C by
Unearth ThisOb(zine) Blue Mountains/western Sydney music compilationAvailable from PO Box 300, Blaxland NSW 2774 or <http://fly.to/obzine>
BY BARRY HEALY
This collection of 17 tracks by different bands from the western Sydney/Blue
BY PHIL SHANNON
CANBERRA — The federal Department of Health and Aged Care has been publicly embarrassed by a recent outbreak of legionella in one of its Canberra buildings.
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) reports that staff in the
BY ROBERT DARCY
SYDNEY — Dita Sari, chairperson of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), has written to the central New South Wales branch of the Maritime Union of Australia to thank the union for funding a number of FNPBI
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