BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — After six days of a round-the-clock picket line, workers at Linencare linen service in Perth's southern suburbs returned to work victorious.
The members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union,
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BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
COPENHAGEN — "We want a totally different agenda", Enhedslisten (Red-Green Alliance) MP Karl Albrechtsen, from Denmark, told the "Europe after Nice" conference held here on March 3-4.
Attended by 160 delegates from 31
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — "Although Indonesia has, like a good child, been obeying the [International Monetary Fund], the economy is not improving", Indonesian union leader Dr Setia Pribadi told a March 15 public meeting here on labour struggles
[Sometimes we can find] out who people are by listening to the music
and rhythm they carry in their speech, and theorizing that we are not really
who we are when we are perfect in grammatical sentences (which I think
of as a form of
Double standards
Despite having witnessed the mass media hoopla around International Women's Day this year — celebrating how far we've come and women who have "made it" — I wasn't overly surprised to be informed at a recent job interview that
A landowner group along the Ok Tedi River in PNG's Western Province is demanding more than A$1 million compensation for the destruction of the river system by the Ok Tedi mine, owned by BHP.
The Opp Incorporated Land Group, claiming to represent
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the PreposterousBy Nick CohenVerso, 2000247pp, $35(pb)
"I appreciate there were some people who voted for us who thought we would make a difference. They didn't understand" —
BY TAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — John Howard faces little chance of re-election if his reception in Sydney's western suburbs is anything to go by — the Prime Minister, wearing his trademark stupid grin, was accosted by 150 demonstrators when he held
At the founding meeting of the Socialist Alliance on February 17, representatives
of the eight founding parties the Democratic Socialist Party, the International
Socialist Organisation, Workers Power, Workers Liberty, the Workers League,
the
BY AL GIORDANO
While it is front-page news in South America, US President George Bush's half-billion dollar increase in funds for Plan Colombia — complete with a public relations facelift and attempted name change — has flown under the radar of
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