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BY RAY FULCHER Centrelink and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are back in negotiations over a new "development agreement" after a rejection by 72% Centrelink staff of management's attempt to get an unpopular pay and conditions
Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersDirected by Peter JacksonWritten by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair and Peter JacksonStarring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen. REVIEW BY LAURA DURKAY The corporate media were quick to
BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — On January 22, more than 300 journalists and other observers crammed into a room in the Struggle Museum to hear representatives of several political and social movement organisations announce the formation of a new
ANTARCTICA — People at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica — seven continents united — joined with hundreds of thousands of others around the world on January 18 to call for peace not war in Iraq. With the Antarctic mountain range in the
BY MALIK MIAH SAN FRANCISCO — In the largest anti-war protest since the peace marches of the Vietnam War era, some 200,000 people filled the streets here on January 18. Demanding "No war against Iraq", the demonstrators were a representative
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government's department of state development has given formal notice to protesters camped outside the site of the Narangba nuclear irradiation plant, now under construction, that they will be
BY FEDERICO FUENTES BUENOS AIRES — Two separate delegations travelled to the northern province of Tucuman, one of the poorest provinces in Argentina, in January. Each represented the deep gulf that divides Argentinian society and politics.
BY PIP HINMAN US President George Bush's "alliance of the willing" to attack Iraq is looking pretty thin: the governments of Britain's Tony Blair and John Howard don't make up for Washington's general lack of allies. Now, with Howard's popularity
BY FEDERICO FUENTES PORTO ALEGRE — This city is buzzing as more and more people arrive each day for the third annual gathering of the World Social Forum (WSF), being held here January 23-28. Once again, tens of thousands of global justice
BY ROHAN PEARCE The wave of global anti-war protests on January 18 was a massive show of opposition by the world's working people — in particular those in the United States — to a US war on Iraq. The protests also signal that the US
PERTH — More than 2500 people rallied outside the Western Australian parliament on January 19 to oppose the war on Iraq and the “sea swap” agreement between the Australian and US governments. The rally was organised by the Fremantle
Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan women have joined in protest marches and actions defending their government. The opposition, a US-backed wealthy elite, has locked out workers from their factories, called for a new presidential election and