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BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE Why is the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national
office attacking the Victorian branch?, AMWU state secretary Craig Johnston
asked a stop-work rally on July 17. Addressing around 5000 of his union's
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VARADERO, Cuba — "The most beautiful land the human eye has beheld" was how Christopher Columbus described Cuba when he "discovered" it on behalf of the Spanish royals in October 1492. Despite several hundred years of Spanish colonisation and US
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On July 11, more evidence about the October 19 sinking of the boat SIEV-X (which stands for Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel — unknown) was presented to the Senate committee investigating the incident. The evidence strengthens
BY BRIAN BELKNAP
Dockworkers' union leaders on the US west coast continue to negotiate with management for a new contract. The existing contract, which expired on July 1, is being extended on a day-to-day basis.
In 1999, when the International
BY PIP HINMAN
US military ties with Jakarta have been restricted since the 1990s because of the Indonesian military's (TNI) human rights abuses in East Timor. Now, Washington is using the "war on terrorism" as justification to renew ties. On July
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Activists from the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) rank-and-file group, Members First, are campaigning against the latest tactic in the federal government's war on workers: using the federal government's New
BY ALISON DELLIT
After badly scalding his face, a friend of mine went to the emergency department of Sydney's Westmead Hospital at 2am, where he waited for six hours before his burns were even looked at.
Stories like this are common. Australia's
BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY — The first major conflict between the mass movement and Mexico's President Vicente Fox's administration has ended in a qualified victory for those opposed to the construction of a new international airport for the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The forced return of Alamdar and Montazar Baktiyari to the Woomera immigration prison — which dramatically unfolded on news telecasts on July 18 — has horrified millions of people across Australia and the world. It was a
Museworthy: Your Pen & Mine
The epiphanies are rushing togetherThe epiphanies of povertyOf light and emptiness and the mass of lifeThat remembers itselfIn the square of your childhood village
The sunflower's head is too heavyFor its
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — For 10 years now, a chorus of politicians, journalists and sociologists has been telling the Russian people a story as simple and appealing as Little Red Riding Hood.
It goes like this: society was deformed by
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Forget about the Gold Coast, the next series of Big Brother should be televised from the Woomera refugee detention centre according to comedian Rod Quantock. After all, "it's all ready to go, all you need is the
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