Only a few thousand workers participated in the "indefinite" general strike called by the illegal Korean Government Employees Union that began on November 15. The union, which has 140,000 members, said that 45,000 had committed to join the strike to
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The Secret Service payed a visit to Boulder High School on November 11, after it heard that students were planning a spoken word performance of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" at the school's talent show the following night. The school's principal Ron
The following is abridged from an address by Sydney-based Afghan refugee Riz Wakil to the November 16 convergence at federal parliament in Canberra.
Thank you for coming here on the first sitting day of parliament to say: "It doesn't matter who won
On November 16, the Philippines army and police massacred 16 people, including a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, in Hacienda Luisita, in Tarlac, during a protest of striking workers. More than 5000 sugar-mill workers and sugar-cane farmers in the
Hundreds of people came together on November 16 to protest the installation of pre-paid water metres in Soweto and other townships. The protest was organised by a Coalition that included Anti-Privatisation Forum, Independent Baptists, Jubilee and the
Doug Lorimer
Yasser Arafat, who died in a Paris hospital on November 11, at the age of 75, was the iconic figure of his people's struggle for freedom from six decades of brutal, US-backed, Zionist ethnic cleansing and colonisation of the
Michael Karadjis
Five years after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops entered Kosova, occupation authorities have begun a program of privatisation of state and social enterprises.
The surprise is not that NATO and the United Nations
The following is a message from jailed unionist Craig Johnston to the November 25 Melbourne rally calling for his release and for an end to the criminalisation of unions.
From my prison cell in Loddon I thank you all for attending this rally. I
Alex Tighe, Adelaide
Angered by federal health minister Tony Abbott's claim that there is an "abortion epidemic" in Australia and calls by Coalition backbenchers for the federal government to restrict women's access to abortion services, on
Jon Lamb, Darwin
East Arm Wharf is a new sprawling development on the edge of Darwin that is fast becoming the hub of the town's maritime trade. Established in 1999, the site has next to no facilities for seafarers, waterside workers and others who
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