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BY IGGY KIM SEOUL — Hundreds of riot police have attacked 400 workers laid off by the troubled Korean car manufacturer Daewoo, injuring 70, in an attempt to prevent the workers gaining entry to their own union office. But their assault may have
M1: Our world is not for saleCompilationAvailable from activist centres and independent music stores. REVIEWED BY DANNY FAIRFAX The fact that this CD's proceeds go to funding the May 1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange building in Sydney
The REAL: Life on Film documentary festival provides a dynamic forum for documentaries exploring issues of cultural identity, human rights and provides a voice for those otherwise muffled by bigotry, poverty and war. The not-for-profit festival,
BY SEAN HEALY Authorities in the mid-west city of Cincinatti have lifted a week-long night-time curfew, imposed after the city's black residents rose up in anger at the police's April 7 killing of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas. Thomas was killed as
Citigroup protests in 12 countries Students in 12 countries and 80 cities protested against the US-owned Citigroup banking corporation on April 11. Activists attacked the banking giant's funding of environmentally destructive projects. In New
A national day of action to free the refugees has been called for June 3. It has been endorsed by the ACTU, the Victorian Trades Hall Council and refugee rights campaign groups around the country and is calling for the closure of the detention
Geelong M1 sets up web site GEELONG — The collective organising a regional contingent for the Melbourne M1 blockade has established a web site of its own. Its designer, Camilo Jorquera, said the web site
BY NORM DIXON In late March, newspaper headlines hailed the announcement that giant Australian-owned mining, oil and steel corporation BHP and the huge Anglo-South African mining and base metals conglomerate Billiton had agreed to merge, forming
BY SAM FROST & KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — The United Trades and Labor Council here has decided to back a "Unity Rally Against Corporate Tyranny", which will conclude the Adelaide M1 Alliance's blockade of this city's stock exchange. The UTLC's
BY SEAN HEALY Despite their best efforts over the past 18 months, the world's most powerful governments have had little success strong-arming others into agreeing to a new, comprehensive round of World Trade Organisation talks, which they had hoped
SYDNEY — In lively scenes reminiscent of the 1990s' campaign for East Timor's freedom, about 100 protesters — many of them Acehnese — gathered outside the Indonesian consulate here on April 21 to demand the Indonesian military leave Aceh and a