Protest over arrests of Los Palos Six
By Kerryn Williams
CANBERRA — Responding to a call by the Dublin-based East Timor Solidarity Campaign for worldwide actions to protest against the British government's jailing of six East Timorese
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By Wendy Robertsonand Keara Cortney
SYDNEY — Forty people attended a "Stop the Jabiluka mine" information and planning night at the Wayside Chapel here on November 24 to discuss ways of increasing the activist base of the campaign. The night
By Peter Sullivan
On October 26, municipal elections were held in Colombia. The international media were at pains to convince the world that Colombia's bipartisan political system was one of the most advanced "democracies" in Latin America. The
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Parliamentary gallery protest
By Sue Bull and Nikki Ulasowski
CANBERRA — On November 25, as federal parliament began the second reading debate on the Native Title Amendment Act, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation organised a
Conference urges international workers' unity
By Caroline Lund
SAN FRANCISCO — An important conference took place in mid-November: the Western Hemisphere Workers' Conference Against NAFTA and Privatisations. The nearly 400 participants came
Damned if they do, damned if they don't: Working women and the Louise Woodward trial
By Walter Lippmann
Louise Woodward, a 19-year-old English au pair, has been found guilty in the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen. A storm of
By Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — Now that the Victorian government's WorkCover bill is before parliament, and unions have had a chance to scrutinise it, it has been discovered to be worse than predicted. In addition to removing the right of injured
Editorial: How to defend native title
How to defend native title
As opposition mounts to Howard's native title amendment bill, the government is desperate to claw back support by raising the bogey that native title claims will be made over
AIDS crisis far from over
By Marina Carman
SYDNEY — On November 24, a black coffin was carried by AIDS activists from Circular Quay to Parliament House. A minute's silence was held as a mark of respect for the 5370 Australians who have died
By Norm Dixon
Thirty-eight trade unionists protesting against the visit of Indonesian President Suharto to South Africa were arrested in Cape Town on November 20. The protesters, members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), who
Cricketers hit out for justice
By James Vassilopoulos
It is sometimes in the most unlikely situations that class struggle bursts to the surface. An industrial dispute has developed in the green pastures of the "gentlemen's game", where the
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