BY JOHN NEBAUER
ADELAIDE — Workers at Balfours Bakery have rejected an invitation to have their wages cut by management, in a vote on September 19.
Management had asked staff to accept a pay cut of 76 cents an hour and other measures, including
422
BY BILL NEVINS
TAOS, New Mexico — John Trudell, founder/leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, is now a movie star (Thunderheart and Smoke Signals), a recording artist (with albums Graffiti Man and his latest, Blue Indians),
BY JIM GREEN
British Petroleum (BP), one of the world's largest petroleum and petrochemicals groups, is "rebranding" its corporate image. BP's web site describes the exercise: "The move to a single brand follows a $120 billion series of mergers and
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Fifty people gathered at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on September 20 to assess the movement for indigenous rights in the wake of the small and divided protests coinciding with the opening of the Olympics on September
BY SEAN HEALY
The S11 protests against the World Economic Forum summit in Melbourne may have claimed a quite unintended, but welcome, victim: a quick launch of a new round of World Trade Organisation talks.
The Seattle ministerial meeting of the
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The state Labor government has a plan to close schools in Tasmania, disguised by the promise that "no school will be forced to close". The value of this promise is revealed by the dispute that has erupted over the plan
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — Unions covering workers at Perry Engineering are not confident that the new owners will re-employ staff who lost their jobs when the company closed. The firm went into receivership earlier this year, and workers are
BOSTON — Protesters who were in Philadelphia would later remember the four burly men — who went by the names Tim, Harry, George and Ryan — as kind of suspicious, not quite fitting the bill as political activists. Still, the men were hard
BY NOAM CHOMSKY
There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system.
In
The following is the text of a model motion for trade unions and community groups to condemn police violence at S11.
This (union/meeting/executive) condemns the September 11-13 assaults by the Victoria Police on non-violent blockaders at Crown
The Ministry of Information and security forces of the Iranian government have summoned the president of the Saqqez bakers' union, Mahmoud Salehi, back to prison.
Last year, Salehi and four other members of the union were imprisoned for four months
COMMENT BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — The day after the Olympic opening ceremony, the Australian establishment media outdid themselves with superlatives, hyperbole and pure dross. Australians both black and white can now stand proud, they said, hand
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