BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — After two months of fruitless attempts to negotiate a pay increase, workers at Geelong Windows decided that only industrial action would make their boss see reason — and got what they were demanding after a week of
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BY CHRIS SLEE & GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — On June 30 Socialist Alliance activists took their campaign in the federal electorate of Aston to the streets to protest the first anniversary of the GST. The Aston by-election, to be held on July 14,
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
JAKARTA — "It's become much worse since the economic crisis. There are more homeless people, more street singers, and more street sellers", Onie told me, before turning back to his battered guitar and filling the tiny office of
It is only three weeks since Tony Blair led New Labour to a landslide victory in the British elections. But the future looks grim for the government, with members of the largest union in the country openly questioning their allegiance to the Labour party and pledging a full-blown fight against Blair's privatisation plans.
BY SHANE BENTLEY
NEWCASTLE — The state Labor government's determination to push ahead with the Workers' Compensation Amendment Bill has forced thousands of unionists in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley to reconsider their allegiance to the Labor
Axe the GST!
The Socialist Alliance's June 30 anti-GST pickets received saturation media coverage. The ABC, SBS and three commercial TV channels all highlighting the only nationwide protests against the hated tax.
Our pickets explained the real
BY DAVID BOYD & DANIEL OOI
SYDNEY — The University of New South Wales University Council has announced plans to merge the Faculty of Life Science and the Faculty of Science and Technology, a move which has staff and students worried about the
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
@detail = Lenin: A BiographyBy Robert ServicePapermac, 2001561 pp, $33 (pb)
Vladimir Lenin has too often been the much-abused meat in the biographical sandwich, mangled and distorted between the turgid adulation of
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
Imagine this: you've had a bad day at school, bullies have pestered you, and your teachers don't do anything to prevent it. Finally the bell rings and you can go home, where you decide to vent your rage — by writing a revenge
Convincing refutation
"... there's an assumption that we're an American company that exports things everywhere else to make a lot of money... Sure, we're everywhere, but so too is ... NBC and CNN." — McDonald's CEO Jack Greenberg.
Balanced
BY DAVID BACON
OAKLAND, California — Last month 14 men and women left their coffee farms in Veracruz, Mexico, and began the journey north. Within days, their bodies were found on the hardpan of the Sonora desert. At first glance, they died of
"Best wishes to the Socialist Alliance and your campaign. So serious is the domination of the transnational corporations and economic rationalist ideology, all socialists and environmentalists must fight harder to link economics and ecological
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