On May 1, the day
of international workers' solidarity, anti-corporate activists, unionists
and peace campaigners will be taking to the streets of cities around Australia
to oppose the corporate looting of Iraq and to protest against the First
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UNITED STATES: Architects of empire
By URI AVNERY
BY ROHAN PEARCE
For those who expected the US-led invasion forces in Iraq to be welcomed with open arms, events on April 15 proved to be a shock. On that day in Nasiriya, some 20,000 Shiite Muslim Iraqis protested against the US occupation of Iraq,
BY NORM DIXON
"The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International
BY PAUL PRITCHARD
HOBART — Deep in the forest, from the vantage point of a rickety bridge, spanning a lazy river black with tannin, some of the vegetation is as it would have appeared 60 million years ago.
Myrtle, sassafras, celery-top pine,
BY EVA CHENG
The strains on Washington's close, seven-decade relationship with Saudi Arabia burst into the open last August when the Washington Post revealed that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB) on July 10 had
BY JIM MCILROY
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an
BY
SUE BOLTON
PERTH Of the 392 adverse findings that the building industry royal
commission made against Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union,
two-thirds were directed against the Western Australian branch of the union.
Does
REVIEW
BY SARAH STEPHEN
No Blood for Oil: Australian Voices for Peace
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No Blood for Oil brings together a varied and interesting
collection of
BY AMY PARISH
On April 11, the University of Wollongong's council appointed George Maltby as chairperson of the Illawarra Technology Corporation (ITC), the corporate arm of the UOW.
Maltby was already chairperson of Thales International Pacific