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Exhibition exposes ships of shame By Ana Kailisand Claudia Beltran PERTH — The Global Mariner exhibition is an awesome multimedia display of issues facing seafarers worldwide. The ship Global Mariner was purchased by the International Transport
WA forests: for a green-worker alliance Western Australia's regional forest agreement (RFA) has given a glimpse of what an Achilles heel the environment continues to be for the capitalist system. From the very start of negotiations, the threat to
Southern Cross Uni dispute continues By Nick Fredman LISMORE — On August 4, staff at Southern Cross University stopped work for the second time since enterprise bargaining negotiations broke down in May. Staff unions and the Student
US fans tensions with China By Eva Cheng Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui's July 9 statement of a desire for "state to state" relations with China has increased tensions, leading to Beijing's July 31 seizure of a Taiwanese military supply vessel
School bursar dispute continues By Sue Bull CANBERRA — Locked-out school bursars met with ACT education minister Bill Stefaniak on August 3 and came away empty handed. Stefaniak maintained he would have a proposal for the Community and Public
Web site launched for imprisoned South African poet By Norm Dixon The Campaign for the Release of Mzwakhe Mbuli has a launched a web site to publicise the case the renowned artist. Mbuli is known as South Africa's "people's poet" for his daring
Venting my spleen I cannot claim to possess oodles of imagination. But I have my moments. Sometimes I can envisage such bizarre delights that I can entertain myself for hours. Perhaps I really am a creative type person. An artist. A political
They jail trade unionists in Indonesia Last week, Green Left Weekly's MAX LANE spoke to Indonesian labour leader DITA SARI, who was released from jail on July 3 after serving three years of a five-year sentence for organising workers to fight for
Lamentable "I would lament that." — Richard Butler, former head of the UN Special Commission on Iraq, replying to a magazine interviewer's question about whether the US government used the commission to spy on Iraq, something that Butler used to
The following is abridged from a statement by the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). US trade unionists demonstrated outside Texaco's Washington office on July 30 to protest against labour and human
By Vannessa Hearman DILI — Pro-independence forces and United Nations Assistance Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) workers are very confident that the referendum in East Timor on autonomy or independence, now scheduled for August 30, will go ahead
Inside the Celtic Tiger — The Irish Economy and the Asian ModelBy Denis O'HearnPluto Press, London1998, 216pp. Review by Garret Mullan "Dublin is the new Paris" was the title of a recent article in the Observer newspaper. Ireland is a centre of