On May 1, as millions of immigrant workers marched for their rights in May Day rallies across the US, an agreement was signed at the University of Miami giving hundreds of low-waged janitors the right to form a union. The agreement followed
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A Commander of Bush's Empire
"Captain John Peterson, chief of staff to the commander of the US Navy in the Middle East, received a CBE. His citation praises his role of leading British and American forces in 'the campaign to secure Iraqi oil
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
Australian trade unionists who were part of a solidarity brigade to Venezuela participated in Caracas's huge May 1 demonstration and had an opportunity to address the crowd from the front stage near Miraflores,
Noreen Navin
Fear of defamation was one of the excuses given by TVS to withdraw ARTV's Coca Cola Kills documentary, and the rest of the program, from Channel 31 on March 26. TVS also asserted that the documentary, which called for a boycott of Coca
Peter Boyle
Maria, a 2.6 kilogram baby from East Timor, is recovering in Sydney Children's Hospital from surgery to close a hole in her heart. She would have died if not for a burst of generous donations that allowed her to be treated in Australia.
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
More than a million workers from throughout Venezuela marched through city streets in Caracas on May 1. The theme of the May Day demonstration was "No to imperialism, no to corruption, no to bureaucracy; for
The Chaser's War on Everything — Lampoons the world of politics, business, religion, media and culture. ABC, Friday, May 12, 10.05pm.
Crunching the Numbers — Follows a woman struggling with the tough economic realities of health care in
Sylvia Hale
Today [May 4] at lunchtime, Ian Cohen and I hosted a public forum about the proposed privatisation of Snowy Hydro. The response to the awful possibility that this government, a desperate government in decline, a government more
On May Day, 30,000 people rallied in Paris and thousands more took to the streets in other cities across France to celebrate the victory against the CPE (First Employment Contract). The law, which would have allowed employers to sack young workers
Marce Cameron
"The world is rapidly being globalised; an unsustainable and intolerable world economic order is rapidly being established. Ideas are the raw material from which consciousness is forged; they are the raw material of ideology par
Ben Courtice, Melbourne
"Direct action gets workers' jobs back", announced the media release from community activist group Union Solidarity after the reinstatement of three workers who were sacked under the Howard government's Work Choices laws on
Rachel Evans
At its meeting on April 30, the ALP-led national executive of the National Union of Students (NUS) voted against organising a national day of protest in August against the Howard government's "voluntary student unionism" (VSU)
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