BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — South Korea's movement for democratic unions won an important victory on May 21, when the candidate of a rank-and-file alliance, Kim Jae-gil, won the powerful post of secretary of the Korean Railway Union in a landslide.
The
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REVIEW BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK& JO ELLIS
Organised by Michael Scott, education and community development manager for the Northern Territory AIDS Council, the recently concluded A Walk Through History exhibition presented a historical insight into the
The Green Left Weekly staff will be taking a well-earned break next week. The next issue of the paper (No. 452) will appear on June 20.
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Sydney has a new indigenous radio station — Koori Radio 93.7FM. After six years of campaigning by the Gadigal Information Service, the Australian Broadcasting Authority finally granted a full-time community radio
BY SHANE HOPKINSON
Tandem Thrust 2001 is the name of the joint US/Australia military exercise conducted during May in Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area, north of Rockhampton. Some 28,000 US, Australian and Canadian troops were involved and it
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — The May 15 commemorations here of Al Nakba (the Catastrophe), the anniversary of the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel, held special significance for Palestinians — for not since 1948 itself have the
The people's rollback versus Labor's
In the five years since John Howard was elected prime minister, his
government has carried through a breathtaking range of attacks on the working
class. Key among these were the sale of Telstra, the
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART Voluntary and forced redundancies at the Incat boat-building
company have resulted in Incats work force being reduced from 900 to 710.
Last year the work force was 1000-strong but workers who left have not
been
BY TILLY ELDERFIELD
SYDNEY — After 18 robberies, Sefton newsagent Les Clark armed himself with a pick handle. He declared, "It's a big relief to know you'll be able to defend yourself without breaking the law. I've got a pick handle beneath the
BY DICK NICHOLS
It was good to see two letters in last week's Green Left Weekly
question whether the Socialist Alliance has a future. Paul Petit's and
Lev Lafayette's doubts about the project invite us all to think about the
BY RENFREY CLARKE
Mention electricity supplies to a South Australian, and the answer is unlikely to be polite. As well as summer blackouts, there are pool prices that doubled during 2000 in the now-privatised state grid, and the prospect of huge
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