[The following statement was issued in Sydney on July 18 by Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP).]
Plans to "interdict" North Korean shipping and the Pentagon's Operations Plan 5030 (brought to light in the July 21 US News and
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MELBOURNE — Workers from One Steel subsidiary Martin Bright Steels have been on strike for more than two weeks, as part of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Campaign 2003. The strike follows two weeks of overtime bans. The workers are
BY PHILIP AGEE
Condemnation of Cuba was immediate, strong and practically global following the imprisonment of 75 political "dissidents" and the execution of three ferry hijackers. Prominent among the critics were past friends of Cuba of recognised
BY DEIRDRE GRISWOLD
LOS ANGELES — US President George Bush flew into California on June 27 to raise millions of dollars from wealthy Republicans. He got the money, but he also got booed by thousands of protesters in Los Angeles and in Burlingame,
BY SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — In a victory for militant unionism, the Members Reform Team, consisting of rank-and-file postal workers, has won control of the Victorian postal and telecommunications (P&T) branch of the communications division of the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
SYDNEY — "War is the inevitable result of a system that places power and greed before solidarity and need", Lincoln Hancock, a Melbourne-based activist, told the July 11-13 Resistance national conference, held in Sydney.
The
BY DALE MILLS
What do you call a trial in which, even if found not guilty, you can end up in solitary confinement for the rest of your life? According to Attorney-General Daryl Williams, one in which "all the fundamental guarantees of the US and
BY JUSTIN TUTTY
DARWIN — Two of the Northern Territory's major rivers face serious threats from development proposals.
Australians are already struggling to comprehend the billions of dollars that will be required just to keep the
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
DAMPIER, WA — A dispute that began with a company's arrogance towards a team of cleaners led to a week-long strike — and victory — for workers at Woodside's construction site on the Burrup Peninsula, near Dampier in Western
EDI workers strike for job protection
BATHURST — Unions representing 90 striking workers at the EDI Rail factory, which manufactures train undercarriages, have been ordered by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission to a compulsory conference on
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