We Built This CityWritten and directed by Donna JacksonMelbourne Workers TheatreWith Mark SeymourScienceworks, MelbourneUntil May 6
PREVIEW BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
At a time when the Howard government has introduced the most reactionary IR
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Sarah Stephen
Mohammad Sagar, 29, and Muhammad Faisal, 26, are Iraqis who have been granted refugee status but remain stranded on Nauru after arriving there four-and-a-half years ago. The Australian government won't take them after ASIO deemed them
Simon Cunich and Katie Cherrington
After being detained by the Wolf Brigade — an elite police squad controlled by the US-backed Iraqi Interior Ministry — in February 2005, Khalida Zakiya, a 46-year-old woman from Mosul, appeared on Iraqi
The Wall Street Journal published a worried analysis about the April 10 day of action for immigrant rights, pointing to widespread absenteeism by workers who participated, which forced many employers to shut down.
Workers at an Excel meatpacking
Luisa Ara
The April 9 presidential election in Peru attracted the attention of many in Latin America and the rest of the world, given the possibility that Peru may join the wave of South American countries turning against neoliberal policies and
Eva Cheng
A seven-year battle by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) to gain registration as a legal association failed to produce a clear result when the case was heard in the country's Court of Appeals on April 10. The court reserved its
Kylie Moon, Melbourne
On April 12, 50 unionists protested outside the Optus city centre offices against the sacking of 70 field technicians in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The protest was organised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions
Documents released under freedom of information laws show that queer activists at universities have been monitored by an intelligence system set up for surveillance of suspected terrorists. The official role of the secretive Counter-Intelligence
Simon Tayler, Sydney
Mamdouh Habib, arrested in Pakistan and held without charge in Guantanamo Bay for three-and-a-half years until he was released without charge in February 2005, was arrested again by Parramatta police on March 29.
This latest
The French government's decision on April 10 to scrap its First Employment Contract law is a great victory for working people, and shows the way for us in Australia.
The Chirac government was forced to scrap the law it passed last month that would
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