BY THE PARTIDO NG MANGGAGAWANG PILIPINO(Philippines Workers Party, PMP)
MANILA, July 27 — The rank-and-file soldiers, junior officers from the rank of lieutenant-colonel down, have taken over the Ayala center in Makati, the heart of the business
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Victorian Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government is putting pressure on non-governmental community services organisations to make "productivity savings" in order to enable annual cuts to the Department of Human Services (DHS) budget over the next
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The first meeting of the Iraqi Governing Council was held in Baghdad on July 13. In the following week, two US soldiers were killed, and 13 injured, by rocket-propelled grenade attacks launched by Iraqi resistance fighters in
BY CHRIS LATHAM
During the past two decades, the number of Australian workers employed as casual workers has grown dramatically. More than 2 million workers — or a quarter of the workforce — are now employed on a casual basis.
"Casual
BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — The final report on the medically supervised injecting centre in the red-light district of Kings Cross has approved its continuation. It was the English-speaking world's first state-approved illegal-drug injecting centre.
BY MATTHEW RICH
MELBOURNE — On July 18, 60 people attended a public meeting on Indonesia's war on Aceh, organised by Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP).
The speakers were John Martinkus, a journalist recently returned from
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — On July 21, more than 100 students from the Victorian College of the Arts — 10% of the student population — disrupted a senior-staff meeting to place demands on VCA director Andrea Hull.
The college arts school
BY SUE BOLTON
Anyone who thinks union militancy is dead, hasn't been paying much attention lately. In the last two months, the WA and Victorian branches of the Maritime Union of Australia and the Victorian branch of the postal union have elected
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
VILLA GRIMALDI, Santiago — Until the end of the 1980s, Villa Grimaldi was the centre of detention and torture of Chilean citizens during the US-backed dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who seized power on September 11,
BY MARIA ENGQVIST
As in Iraq, the number of US military personnel being killed in Colombia continues to rise. The US military has lost at least eight soldiers and pilots since February, including three CIA intelligence experts who were taken
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