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  • Cuba tour in Che's footsteps

    Cuba tour in Che's footstepsThe "heroic guerilla", Ernesto "Che" Guevara, may be all the fashion on T-shirts or posters but those people who want to get beyond the romantic imagery now have a special chance to do so. Ocean Travel

  • Red flags fly in Canberra

    Red flags fly in CanberraCANBERRA — With prominent contingents from the Australian Education Union, the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, and Members First, the rank-and-file group in the Community and Public Sector

  • ALP machine dumps MPs

    ALP machine dumps MPsADELAIDE — South Australian ALP delegates have dumped three members of parliament during a special Easter convention to pre-select candidates for the next state and federal elections. Former deputy state

  • Campaign targets Nike

    Campaign targets NikeMELBOURNE — Activists unfurled a banner with the message "Nike slavery: Just stop it" over busy Hoddle Street here on April 18, launching a planned eight-week campaign against the clothing and

  • Coober Pedy says no to radioactive waste dump

    Coober Pedy says no to radioactive waste dumpCOOBER PEDY — The Coober Pedy Against Radioactive Waste Repository Committee and the local Aboriginal women elders, the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, joined together to demonstrate at

  • Action updates

    Tax workers reject pay offer MELBOURNE — Community and Public Sector Union members in the Australian Taxation Office have rejected, by an 88% margin, a management pay offer. The offer included a pay rise of 4% per year, conditional on

  • Right wing defeated at Melbourne University

    MELBOURNE — Students at Melbourne University have had a resounding victory over the right-wing dominated Student Council. Over three days from April 17, students approved four referenda proposals, by margins of up to 90%, to

  • Loose cannons

    Healthy choice "There will be a variety of food, [it] will include McDonald's." — SOCOG on why only ticket holders with an explanatory medical certificate will be allowed to take food or drink not bought from a sponsor into Olympics venues. Also

  • Maritime College locks out academics

    Maritime College locks out academicsHOBART — Academic staff were locked out of the Australian Maritime College (AMC) in Launceston on April 20 and April 26 in response to industrial action by the academics' union. This was

  • East Timor activists fined

    East Timor activists finedCANBERRA — East Timor solidarity activist Gareth Smith was fined $16,335 on April 12 for painting the slogan, "Shame, Australia, shame", on the front wall of federal Parliament House to protest

  • Locals support Kosovars' right to stay

    HOBART — One hundred people gathered at the International Wall of Friendship on April 11 to protest against the forced removal of the five remaining Kosovar refugees in Tasmania. The Sopjani family were being held by the

  • Young people rally against 'legalised racism'

    Young people rally against 'legalised racism' Hundreds of secondary students walked out of school last week to protest the racist policies of the federal government, in particular its refusal to repeal mandatory sentencing laws in Western Australia