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Ben Reid There is growing political turmoil in the Philippines as the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has become increasingly besieged by critics. Broad coalitions of political forces are beginning to emerge calling for her ouster
PM John Howard's new industrial relations laws will be disastrous for working people. The changes are not simply an attack on the wages and conditions of today's workers, they are an attempt to render workers powerless and allow bosses free reign in
Sheikh Taj Eldin Al Hilaly went to Iraq to help secure the release of Australian hostage Douglas Wood. He spent more than a month there, working with the Australian emergency response team. Wood was released on June 15 after Iraqi and US forces
Doug Lorimer In stark contrast to the endless coverage of the supposed "rescue" of Australian-born hostage Douglas Wood, most media has been silent on revelations of hundreds of Iraqi Arabs and Turkmen kidnapped by US-backed Kurdish police and
Sarah Stephen How fast the federal Coalition government can move when it wants to! On June 17, Prime Minister John Howard came to an agreement with the "Rebel 4" Liberal Party backbenchers on a compromise deal to reduce the harshness of mandatory
On June 21, 200 people, representing 127 organisations, gathered at Malaysia's Parliament House to protest the proposed privatisation of the country's water supply management. Malaysia's ruling National Front party is rapidly privatising basic
Malik Miah, San Francisco The latest setback for US workers' right to secure retirement pensions occurred in the airline industry with the termination last month of four defined benefit pension plans at United Airlines (UAL), the world's second
Kathy Newnam& Jon Lamb, Darwin The race card came up trumps for the Labor Party in the June 18 Northern Territory elections, which saw the ALP returned to government with an unprecedented 12% swing in its favour. The Country Liberal Party, which
Pablo Neruda: A Passion for LifeBy Adam FeinsteinBloomsbury, 2004497 pages, $65 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Pablo Neruda was a poet who won the Nobel prize for literature. He was also a lifelong, if increasingly troubled, Stalinist. As Adam
Sibylle Kaczorek, Sydney On June 18, 200 people attended a public meeting organised by the Greens to discuss PM John Howard's planned new anti-union laws. The meeting was addressed by a number of union leaders. Unions NSW assistant secretary Mark

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