Lance Selfa, Chicago
Officials in an administration that has gotten the US bogged down in an unpopular war and overseen a net loss of jobs and a net increase in poverty should be polishing their resumes for their inevitable defeat in November. Yet
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An estimated 700,000 to four million people are trafficked annually worldwide.
Trafficking occurs for a variety of purposes, including bonded labour, forced prostitution, forced marriage and the stealing of human organs.
Approximately 50,000
Message Stick: Ankula Watjarira — Follows the Ernabella Choir — established in the Ernabella Mission in remote South Australia in the '50s — as it travels to the Adelaide Festival, blending Western hymns into Pitjantjatjara language. ABC,
Meredith Aby, Minneapolis
Colombia is the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. On average, right-wing paramilitary death squads or the military murder three Colombian trade unionists a week. Many more are threatened each day.
Simon Butler, Newcastle
The mining division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has welcomed the August 9 conviction of the companies and individuals responsible for events that led to the tragic deaths of four coal
Duncan Meerding
Workers want higher wages and better conditions, while employers want to keep down labour costs. This is one of the major contradictions in the capitalist world today. The labour costs that employers come across include not only
Leslie Cannold
Recently, ABC TV's Compass program screened a documentary about abortion. The British filmmaker Julia Black is the daughter of the founder of Marie Stopes International. Heavily pregnant during the filming, Black sets out to revisit
The August 27 Court of Appeal decision to jail militant unionist Craig Johnston is a sharp illustration of the class prejudices of Australia's legal system. While Johnston is locked up because of property damage sustained during an industrial
Rohan Pearce
It was the biggest-ever protest against a political convention in the United States. The August 29 demonstration against the Republican National Convention was a resounding rejection of the White House and its "war on terror". The
US Greens
In response to Tennessee reader Howard Switzer's complaints (Write On, GLW #596) about my comments on the US Greens in my article in "Democrats sabotage Nader-Camejo campaign" (GLW #595), the main point of my article was the fact that the
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'Make refugee rights a political issue'
BRISBANE — "The best thing we can do to help the refugees is to make refugee rights a key political issue", Aladdin Sisalem, the last asylum seeker to be held on Manus Island, told a public meeting of
Jenny Long, Sydney
As part of its campaign against new job-threatening multi-year contracts to clean schools and other public buildings announced in June by the NSW Labor government, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) announced
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