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M1: The people behind the letters

BY SEAN HEALY The two letters — M1 — are certainly getting around: they're on flyers, on lamp posts, stencilled onto footpaths, they've even started to get into the mainstream media. The idea is getting around too: "we're going to blockade the

Reactor plans hits another hurdle

BY JIM GREEN The federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights hit another hurdle on March 15 when a French court banned a ship from unloading 360 spent fuel rods from the existing

Capturing the feel of a new movement

S11 DocoWritten, produced and directed by Charlie Hill-Smith, Cindy Elliot & Pat Stirling$8Order a copy by email at <charlie@cobweb.com.au> StruggleKineticDistributed by MGM Records BY SEAN HEALY I've spent most of the last six months

Linencare workers victorious

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,

M1 club censored at Tas Uni

BY SARAH CLEARY HOBART — Despite much interest in the planned M1 action from students, the University of Tasmania's clubs and societies council voted on March 12 to deny an application to affiliate from the campus' M1 Alliance group. While the

Rio Tinto may pursue Jabiluka uranium mine

BY JIM GREEN Multinational mining company Rio Tinto may now decide to complete construction of and then operate the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory itself, it was revealed on March 14. For several months Rio Tinto has been

ZIMBABWE: 'Only a new revolution will dislodge Mugabe'

BY DALE T. McKINLEY HARARE — For a man who might soon find himself facing the life-threatening wrath of a former comrade turned despotic head of state, Dzinashe Machingura shows amazingly little concern. Maybe that's because Machingura is better

ISRAEL: Sharon seeks to shore up Zionism's 'iron wall'

BY JEFF HALPER TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon's governing coalition, embracing both Labour's Shimon Peres and hard-line rejectionists, exposes the contradictions in the conventional left-right distinctions in Israeli politics. Over seven years after

Looking out: Light the way

“[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

Indonesian unionist condemns IMF

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

KOREA: Daewoo factory reopens under police siege

BY IGGY KIM SEOUL — Daewoo's Bupyong factory recommenced operations on March 7 under the guard of 8000 riot police. As 80 buses took workers into the factory about 200 laid-off workers attempted to block them. All were detained by the police.

VIETNAM: The pauper among the 'tigers'?

BY MICHAEL KARADJIS HANOI — While the historic advances made by revolutionary Cuba in education, health, welfare and other fields have long made for impressive contrasts with the grinding poverty, illiteracy and death from preventable diseases