US President George Bush is preparing for a new war on Iraq using the pretext
that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is threatening the world with weapons
of mass destruction.
Pentagon papers leaked on July 4 reveal plans for an assault on
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BY SUE BOLTON
As the royal
commission into the building industry continues its assault on militants
in the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, state attacks on
the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
In the space of a week, the federal government shocked the world by voting against an optional protocol to the United Nations convention against torture, then aggressively dismissed a UN report which was highly critical of Australia's policy of
Among the ancient rocks I pace,Scattered through the friendlyStringybarks, and gaping waterhole,Which feeds the parched red clay.
And gazing on antipodean stone,I shield my eyes from glaringWinter, solstice sun.
Then in a flash I am
The NavigatorsDirected by Ken LoachWritten by Rob DawberScreening in most major cities from August 8
REVIEW BY JANET BURSTALL
Ken Loach's latest film, The Navigators, depicts the impact of privatisation on a group of former British Rail workers.
BY CHRIS CAIN
Many rank-and-file trade unionists, officials and others are now turning their backs on Labor, because they see that much of that party is no better than the Liberals. And I have to say quite honestly that they wouldn't be far wrong.
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On July 23, a US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplane dropped a 1000-kilogram bomb on an apartment block in Gaza City. The bomb killed 15 civilians, including nine children along with Hamas leader Saleh Shehade. Eleven of those killed
BY NATASHA IZATT
LONDON On July 17, 750,000 local government workers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland went on strike in support of a pay increase. Between 70% and 80% of union members participated.
Teachers aides, caretakers,
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)
staff voted July 19 by more than 90% to reject a management draft industrial
agreement.
The draft included a pay rise of only 6.5% over two years (low by
BY FIDEL CASTRO
[The following is a slightly abridged version of a speech given on July 26 by Cuban President Fidel Castro at a rally of 150,000 people in the Cuban central province of Ciego de Avila.]
History has proved that nothing could defeat
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — An early morning protest outside the NSW Department of Housing's Liverpool head office on July 30 turned into a 24-hour stop-work, as some 300 workers expressed their disgust with a management proclamation that they
Geelong construction workers prepare for the building industry royal commission's return to Victoria on August 12 by proudly hoisting their flag on Geelong's largest building site in defiance of bosses' wishes. Unionists and supporters will rally at
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