BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Teachers and parents in Dulwich Hill, in Sydney's inner west, are rallying to defend their local high school, appealing for statewide industrial action if the NSW government decides to close the school.
The two-month
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BY JEREMY SMITH
GEELONG — Five hundred people rallied on August 9 to protest against Labor Premier Steve Bracks, in town to open the Geelong Sheraton Hotel.
Most of the crowd were workers at Target whose jobs are under threat. Unionists in the
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — Hundreds of people took action around the country on August 8, in a national day of action to demand the repeal of anti-abortion laws. August 8 marked the anniversary of the introduction of Medicare payments for
BY SEAN HEALY
Giant US soft drink company Coca-Cola is being sued in a US federal court for allegedly collaborating with death squads to kill, threaten and intimidate workers at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia.
The suit was filed on July 20
BY SEAN HEALY
Cuban President Fidel Castro has congratulated the 300,000 people who protested against global capitalism during the July 20-22 summit of G8 leaders in Genoa, Italy, and joked that world leaders might soon have to meet on the
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has won a significant victory in the industrial dispute at the Sydney car parts manufacturer TriStar. The immediate issue was the safeguarding of workers' entitlements.
In the face of an intense
BY JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — A solidarity committee has been established by unionists and supporters, following criminal charges of riot, affray, aggravated burglary and criminal damage being laid against six members of the Australian
BY STUART MARTIN
WOLLONGONG — Determined to outsource maintenance work at its Port Kembla steelworks, BHP executives announced on August 7 that 436 jobs in the general and rail maintenance crews are to be axed and the contracts for them handed to
BY SUE BOLTON
In line with its perspective that the Socialist Alliance needs to give
support to extra-parliamentary campaigns, the conference voted to support
the protests being organised against the Commonwealth Business Forum in
BY SUE BOLTON
"An historic moment for the left in Australia" was the most common comment made by participants in the founding conference of the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne over the August 4-5 weekend.
This is not the first attempt to unite
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