Victory for Samsonite workers
On September 13, the last 29 workers illegally sacked by a Thai subcontractor of US luggage giant Samsonite were reinstated. The company gave assurances that it will not "interfere with trade union activities" or
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BY ALISON THORNE
[The following is the text of a talk given at a panel at the International
Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2002 conference held in Melbourne, September
6-8. Alison Thorne spoke on behalf of the Freedom Socialist Party, one
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG In a show of people's power, 6000 residents of KwaMasiza Hostel in Sebokeng reoccupied their homes on September 12 after being forcibly evicted a day earlier by thugs employed by a company partly owned by African
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — The anniversary of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US were remembered with highly charged images, especially those of the grieving families of the victims. The respect and sympathy owed to these suffering
SYDNEY More
than 100 protesters rallied in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn on September
20, opposing any war on Iraq. The protest was organised by the Socialist
Alliance, which decided on September 17 to run local activist Roberto
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said on September 18 that
they are seeking substantial autonomy and self-government in the Tamil
homeland and expressed optimism that a solution to
Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could be worked out by
BY LEIGH HUGHES
Refugee activists, trade union militants, free education campaigners and socialists by the trainload are to gather at Trades Hall this weekend to discuss and further their respective struggles. They will be attending the 31st
BY KERRY VERNON
BRISBANE University of Queensland (UQ) academics, members of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union, will take industrial action from September 25 over the university's decision not to renew the employment contract of
Palestine is Still the IssueDocumentary by John PilgerThursday, October 8, 8.30pmSBS
REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE
John Pilger's documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue, is a moving and powerful indictment of Israel's illegal occupation of the West
BY JOCHEN STAY
BERLIN Looking back now at the promises made by the German Green Party and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the 1998 election campaign, it is clear that the record of the SPD-Green coalition government on nuclear power
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