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M1 to join with militant trade unions

BY FELICITY MARTIN & GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — M1 is steadily gaining support amongst major Victorian trade unions, with the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the M1 Alliance agreeing to combine forces for an "Anti-Corporate Unity March" on May

RUSSIA: Defending Budanov

BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY ROSTOV — Among analysts, there is general agreement that the affair of Colonel Budanov should have split Russia. It should have split it into people who are sure that their country's army is always in the right, and that the

Cuba and human rights

BY FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE This an abridged version of a statement delivered by Cuban foreign Felipe Perez Roque at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, March 27, 2001. It has been lightly abridged. We have come