About 260 employees at hearing implant manufacturer Cochlears the Lane Cove factory in north Sydney are being pressured by the company to accept Australian Workplace Agreements (individual employment contracts) despite having twice voted in favour of having a union-negotiated collective agreement.
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With 44.9% of the valid votes cast, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, wife of President Nestor Kirchner, won Argentina’s October 28 presidential election. Fernandez was backed by her husband’s Front for Victory (FPV) party, still formally a faction within the Peronist (nationalist-populist) Justicialist Party (PJ).
Over the last few weeks, thousands of intellectuals from different political, philosophical, and religious backgrounds from around the world have mobilised to speak up in defence of Cuba.
The idea that we build something much better than capitalism had been around for generations but, 90 years ago in Russia, for the first time an alliance of workers and peasants made a revolution that was to frame the course of history ever since
Becoming Julia — An unflinching look at what makes a man and what makes a woman, with all stereotypes turned on their head. SBS, Saturday, November 17, 1.20am.
Message Stick: Kokoda Dreaming — The Wanga Idingii project is an early intervention
We are on the brink of celebrating the 90th anniversary of Russias October Revolution, that beautiful, cherished uprising which asked for nobodys permission to turn the hopes that the world might one day belong to those who work on it into a reality.
A program for cultural transformation is being developed by ordinary Cypriots after the islands politicians have proved unable to resolve the Cyprus problem, which has figured in international politics for over half a century.
Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday [November 5], defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military offensives, Reuters reported that same day.
On November 3, Pakistani military dictator General Pervez Musharraf initiated an intensified crackdown against all opposition to his increasingly unstable regime, with the decleration of a state of emergency. While the militarys spin doctors have attempted to make a distinction between this state of emergency and martial law, it has seen thousands of people put into preventative detention, mobile phones jammed, all non-government broadcasting stations taken off air and the abandonment of what pretence of rule of law still remained under Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999.
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