BY EVA CHENG
On August 30, on the eve of the September 10-14 World Trade Organisation ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico, the US government succeeded in having the WTO issue a "breakthrough" draft agreement that it claims will allow poor
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BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — Martin Kingham, the Victorian secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was a keynote speaker at a Socialist Alliance organised trade union seminar held in Parramatta on August 30.
BY BRONWYN POWELL
In a crackdown on political activists at Sydney University, two people have been arrested and a Resistance stall shut down in the space of two weeks.
On August 25, Lian Jevey, an activist in Socialist Alternative, was arrested
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — Johannesburg Water Company (JOWCO) has embarked on a program of installing pre-paid water meters throughout Soweto, as part of "Operation Gcin'amanzi". The move is being resisted by the community.
JOWCO claims it
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Fourteen refugees from the MV Tampa, released from behind the barbed wire of the Nauru detention camp, were welcomed by supporters of refugees' rights when they arrived at Brisbane airport on September 3.
The 14 Afghan
BY SUE BOLTON
An attempt by trade unionists working in the Pilbara mines in Western Australia to end rivalries between their unions, to present a united face to the mining industry bosses, has been sabotaged by the Australian Workers Union.
At
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — A statement issued by Queensland Teachers Union members in the Socialist Alliance has sparked considerable discussion among teachers in this state.
Teachers are currently voting on whether to accept the government's
BY JORGE JORQUERA
My only vivid childhood memories are from Chile in September 1973 — the gunfire, the burning of documents and the waiting. Like thousands of Chilean workers, my father did not return home from work on the afternoon of September
BY PIP HINMAN& VANNESSA HEARMAN
The Kopassus chief, Commander Major General Sriyanto, invited to Australia to cement a military deal with Canberra, will shortly be tried for human rights abuses in Indonesia.
Sriyanto, who graduated from the
Obviously not addressing GIs in Iraq
"All over the world, all across this globe, everywhere you go, people long for ... the ability to get up in the morning, walk out your door and not have to look in every direction to make sure that someone won't
BY ROLAND SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO - On August 14, the northeastern United States experienced its most extensive power blackout ever. The cause, according to US President George Bush's statement on August 15, was the "antiquated system". He might
BY SARAH STEPHEN
@Five-year-old Tania Singh was born in Australia in 1998, a year after her parents arrived from India seeking asylum. She has never been to India and speaks no Hindi. She goes to kindergarten and loves cricket. Yet she will be
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