The near-meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in the US in 1979 remains a major warning of the danger of nuclear power generation. What makes an industrial accident involving a nuclear power plant so much more dangerous
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The following abridged letter from Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of Congress of South African Trade Unions, was handed to the Australian High Commissioner on June 13.
Workers' interests in Australia are being increasingly undermined. The
Shane Bentley
The weeks of street demonstrations and strike days that forced the French government to withdraw the First Employment Contract laws in April occurred 70 years after another historic event — the wave of strikes and factory
Chris Slee
On June 17, troops from the Sri Lankan navy carried out a massacre of Tamil civilians hiding in a church in the fishing village of Pesalai.
According to a report by Krishan Francis in the June 19 Melbourne Age, "Sri Lankan forces,
NEWCASTLE — All kinds of drivers tooted their car horns as they drove past the protest outside the Newcastle Spotlight store on June 22.
The community action expressed solidarity with Spotlight unionists and condemned Spotlight's attempts to
Enemy Combatant, A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and BackBy Moazzam Begg with Victoria BrittainFree Press, 2006395 pages, $34.95
REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY
After the suicide of three inmates of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp on June
REVIEW BY TOM CRUMPACKER
Fightback: A Collection of Socialist EssaysBy Sylvia WeinsteinSocialist Viewpoint Publishing, 2003358 pages, US$ 25.00 (pb)Order from 1380 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110Send cheque for US$25.00 + 5.95, shipping and
Colin Mitchell, Melbourne
On June 14, 13 men who were arrested in sensationalised raids in Melbourne in November and March appeared in court and were charged with belonging to an unnamed terrorist organisation and donating money to that
Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas
The June 20 Diario Vea reported that more than 4000 campesinos (peasants) marched in the town of Guasdualito, in Apure state, near the border with Colombia. The protesters alleged that right-wing paramilitaries
According to an opinion poll conducted by Hart/McInturff on June 9-12 for the Wall Street Journal and NBC TV News, 52% of US adults think removing Iraq's Saddam Hussein from power was not worth the number of US military casualties and the financial
Graham Matthews
"We can win this", Tim Gooden, secretary of the Geelong and Region Trades Hall Council, told Green Left Weekly, referring to the campaign against Work Choices. "We've always had bad laws and history shows we can win if we take
Art Resistance TV, edition 14Produced by Art ResistanceSingle DVD $25, or by subscriptionemail <artres@aussieisp.net.au>
REVIEW BY JILL HICKSON
The latest DVD release from Art Resistance contains four programs. The first features
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