Dahr Jamail & Ali al Fadhily, Ramadi The US military has lost control over the volatile Anbar province, Iraqi police and residents say. The area to the west of Baghdad includes Fallujah, Ramadi and other towns that have seen the worst of the US
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Marcus Greville, Melbourne "Not paying these workers is in fact theft", Electrical Trades Union (ETU) organiser Shaun Leane told Green Left Weekly. He was commenting on the refusal of electrical parts manufacturer Heinemann Electric to pay wages to
MELBOURNE — On September 10, a meeting of 52 taxi drivers at the Richmond Town Hall decided to promote the formation of the Victorian Taxi Drivers Association. Socialist Party Yarra city councillor Steve Jolly told the meeting that the VTDA needed
CANBERRA — A new campaign urging the Howard government not to proceed with its proposed security treaty with Indonesia was launched on September 15 by former West Papuan politicians Willem Zonggonau and Clemens Runawery, and Greens Senator Bob
Kim Bullimore On September 13, Palestinian political leaders condemned Washington's refusal to lift its aid embargo against the Palestinian Authority (PA) after Hamas and Fatah, the two major Palestinian political parties, reached agreement on
Stuart Harrison, Toronto A 23-year-old sergeant in the US National Guard has become the latest deserter from the US military the September 1 Toronto Star reported. Corey Glass signed up for an eight year National Guard stint in 2002, believing he
In his comment piece, "Should Venezuela have entered Mercosur?" (GLW #682), Raul Bassi emphasises the incapacity of Mercosur — the "Common Market of the South" set up in 1991 between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay — to
Federico Fuentes Reporting in La Epoca, Daniela Otero wrote of the September 8 "pro-autonomy" strikes across Bolivia's four eastern departments (Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando): "The government and the leaderships of the civic committees with
Trish Corcoran, Sydney Barry Hemsworth, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) delegate at Botany Cranes, one of the largest mobile crane businesses in Sydney, was sacked on September 6 for "gross insubordination". Hemsworth
Soft TargetsExibition by James Lamar PetersonSeptember 29 ... October 12Art Factory Gallery, 84 Merrivale Street, South BrisbanePhone 0417 002 122 "Soft Targets" is an exhibition of recent art works by James Lamar Peterson. It incorporates
Troy McGuinness A 48-hour strike by 500 National Distribution Union members in three New Zealand cities has turned into all-out war. The workers were locked out of supermarket distribution centres when they took strike action on August 25.
Geoff Payne, Newcastle The long sharpened axe for Bryce Gaudry, the ALP's MP for the state seat of Newcastle, has fallen. Labor's national executive dropped the 15-year incumbent in favour of businessperson and former TV newsreader Jodi McKay, who
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