We send solidarity greetings to Resistance's young workers' fight-back rallies at McDonald's in Sydney and Melbourne.
Last weekend, Workers Charter began a Supersize My Pay campaign with a 50-strong picket outside a KFC store in Auckland.
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Home Among the Gum TreesArtwork by Gabrielle AlexanderThe Artery Fitzroy87-89 Moor St, FitzroyOpening September 21, 6pmExhibition September 20-October 2Phone Zola on (03) 9415 9200 or email <info@theartery.com.au>
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Bronwen Beechey & Andrew Martin, Auckland
The historic public servants' strike in the south Pacific country of Tonga ended on September 3 after the government agreed to the strikers' demands for 60-80% rises in pay. A memorandum of understanding
Federico Fuentes, Caracas
The right-wing controlled opposition media and big business, both foreign and Venezuelan, have unleashed a wave of condemnation against the recent actions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land (MAT).
The editorial in
Marce Cameron
"How could this be happening in the United States?", asked the headline of a September 3 Washington Post article in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "People around the world cannot believe what they're seeing", the Post reported. "From
Eva Cheng, Kajang
Two-hundred socialist activists and their sympathisers were joined by socialists and Malaysian political exiles from at least eight countries at Kajang near Kuala Lumpur on September 10-11 to discuss the way forward for socialist
DARWIN — The Charles Darwin University Students' Union has been hit with a pre-emptive strike from the university management as it tries to beat PM John Howard to the punch in starving the student union of funds. The university administration is
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
"Gunns don't appear to have a very good name in Tasmania. They are seen to be a company based on arrogance. Gunns are not widely respected in the Tasmanian community from my observations."
These are the diplomatic words of
On September 14, 1500 delegates representing 6.7 million workers unanimously voted to express their support for Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution and the National Union of Workers (UNT). The motion was presented by the university and college
Stuart Munckton
The willingness of the left-wing government of Hugo Chavez to implement the program it was elected to carry out — to use the nation's resources to solve the problems of poverty and underdevelopment — and the inability of foreign
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