BY MALIK MIAH& JENNIFER BIDDLE
SAN FRANCISCO — How could the biggest airline in the world, with the most enviable route structure, largest and most diverse fleet, employing over 100,000 workers — an airline that made US$8 billion in net profit
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MICK BULL
MELBOURNE Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry,
Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), Martin Kingham, has urged all trade unions
to participate in an afternoon rally on the day that the US launches its
war
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — "Bring all the warships home!" was the rally cry on February 18 at the National Maritime Festival where the HMAS Newcastle was on show to the public.
The Newcastle No War Collective organised a snap protest, because
Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States mobilised on January
18 to oppose a US-led war on Iraq. A crowd estimated at between 100,000
and 200,000 rallied and marched in Washington. They listened to the radical
British band
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA The corporate media on January 14 and 15 denounced new
flexible leave conditions contained in the latest industrial agreement
for employees of the federal Department of Education, Science and Training
(DEST).
BY JOEL BEININ
In the early stages of the campaign for Israel's January 28 Knesset (parliamentary) elections, there were no armed attacks by Palestinians on Israelis. During the same six weeks, Israeli forces shot dead some 75 Palestinians in the
Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil FireBy Jack DoyleEnvironmental Health Fund, BostonAvailable for free download at <http://www.shellfacts.com>Hard copies can be ordered from Gary Cohen, Environmental Health Fund, 41
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit
of Labor's Last Century
by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin DG Kelley
Beacon Press, 2001
174 pages, $34.50 (pb)
Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean
BY STUART MUNCKTON
"The strike that once left most commercial areas of the city dark and abandoned — at an economic cost of more than $50 million a day — is now a collage of contrasts: abandoned shopping malls and bustling street markets ...
Old McBush, IEAE Oh!
"And then the North Koreans made a decision ... to ignore international ... agreements that they had reached, and start building potential nuclear weapons, enriching uranium. And now they are ... in the process of kicking out
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