BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
On June 18, Greek workers paralysed the country with a massive general strike against a government attempt to increase the age of retirement and reduce pensions. This militant action underscores the radicalisation that is
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BY ROWAN STEWART
GEELONG On June 28, 600 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union,
Electrical Trades Union and Australian Workers Union members and contractors
from the joint Alcoa and Kaal aluminium smelter and rolling operations
at Point
BY PIP HINMAN
August 26 marks one year since the Coalition government refused to
allow the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa to deliver those asylum seekers
it had rescued to Christmas Island it marks one year of the Pacific
Solution.
Bradbury film
In seeing David Bradbury's new documentary film Fond Memories of Cuba on opening night, I was thoroughly disappointed with its simplistic and muddled portrayal of Cuba from such a renowned left-wing filmmaker.
To a less informed
BY ROGER RONNIE
More than 100,000 municipal workers across South Africa members of the militant South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) began a national strike on July 2. Tens of thousands have marched in demonstrations in major
BY DAVE McKAY
WOOMERA A 34-year-old Iranian nurse recovering in the Woomera town
hospital from a near-fatal suicide attempt inside Woomera detention centre,
has sent a message to well-wishers promising that she will continue to
seek ways
BY CRISTINA SACCO
WOLLONGONG Following an explosion at the Port Kembla Copper smelter
(PKC) on June 8, the Wollongong City Council has asked PKC to stay closed
until an independent safety investigation has been carried out. NSW planning
More than 400 Afghans protested outside the United Nations compound
in Kabul on July 4, according to the BBC. The demonstration was against
the July 1 US bombing raid in the country's south-west that slaughtered
at least 40 people, possibly
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BY EVA CHENG
Pakistan is moving into a new period of political turmoil following
the June 26 and July 2 killings of 13 Pakistani soldiers in firefights
with al Qaeda forces.
According to the June 27 Washington Post, the June 26
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