BY SUSAN PRICE
Unionists Against Corporate Tyranny has launched a new web site which, according to site editor Melanie Sjoberg, will help broaden the campaign against corporate-led globalisation.
"The site has only been up for a week", said
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BY DANIEL KELLY
SYDNEY — Dave Hauser was sacked from his job as a wharfie with P&O here in March, for allegedly reading a newspaper on the job. A delegate for the Maritime Union of Australia, Hauser was one of several to be sacked in the past
Brownbuilt workers locked out
MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members employed by Brownbuilt, which makes filing cabinets and other furniture, are picketing the company's plant in Oakleigh South after being locked out on
Hundreds of protesters were arrested during the S26 protests; many remain
in appalling conditions in Czech jails. They need your help.
Write to the authorities in Prague to demand the immediate release of
the arrestees and the release to
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BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
This year is the 21st anniversary of the "birth" of rap as a commercial music. In 1979, "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang was the first rap song to
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — "There is definitely renewed curiosity and interest in socialist politics following the S11 protests", says Democratic Socialist Party activist Anne O'Casey, who has revealed that both the DSP and the socialist youth
LONDON — The idea that Britain has a "dot com" economy got a severe jolt with the week-long protests outside the oil depots, which brought the country to a complete stop. It became rapidly apparent that, to function, every aspect of industry and
Heavily armed gunmen, suspected of belonging to a paramilitary group, murdered four leaders from the Embera-Kateo indigenous communities in Colombia's Upper Sinu River Basin on September 19. Twenty other Embera-Kateo people were abducted by the
LAHORE — Progressive groups have called a conference for October 12, the first anniversary of the military's takeover of Pakistan, to demand the restoration of democracy.
Twenty-five political parties, excluding the religious parties, have been
BRAZIL: Land reform activist murdered
Sandoval Alves de Lima, a land reform activist and one of the leaders
of a group of landless families occupying an estate in northeastern Brazil,
has been shot dead by a gunman closely linked to the
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — The furore caused by police brutality against S11 protesters, and the explicit backing given to it by Premier Steve Bracks, has not died down. Community lawyers assembling the case against police are confident that an
The Central Intelligence Agency admitted for the first time on September 20 that a high-ranking Nazi general placed his spy ring at the disposal of the US government during the early days of the Cold War.
A press release by the US National Archives
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