By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Workers at one of Russia's largest atomic power plants won another round late in August in a long-running battle to force management and the government to keep wage payments up to date. Protest action at the Leningrad
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Philippine union fights railway privatisation
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — The "bonanza sale" of public assets has been described as a new form of colonising the Third World. The Ramos government in the Philippines, with Ramos describing
Enterprise agreement rejected
By Russell Pickering
SYDNEY — A meeting of more than 300 Department of Public Works and Services (DPWS) wages staff in Granville in Sydney's west on September 3 overwhelmingly rejected the department's enterprise
The story so far
Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before, for the benefit of new readers:
BILL CLINTON, a presidential nominee, conceives the project of executing a salutary missile strike to mark the consequences of wrongdoing and
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French unionists oppose deportations
Thousands marched in protest at the French government's tough immigration policies on August 28. The demonstrators, led by Communist Party leader Robert Hue, dissident former bishop Jacques Gaillot and human
Global merchants of death
Tobacco has become a political issue in the 1996 presidential campaign. First, Republican candidate Bob Dole, while speaking in a tobacco-growing state, said that many smokers never become addicted to nicotine. This is
Post Election Blues Haiku
everyday
we walk
a little lighter
pockets emptied
into politicians'
lies
John Tomlinson
By Graham Matthews
More than 40 people attended the Brisbane Fight Back conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance here on September 1. The day featured discussion by trade unionists, students, migrants and Aboriginal
Can the education campaign win?
By Natasha Simons
Ten thousand university and high school students took to the streets on August 29 as part of a post-budget national day of action against cuts to education, student fee and HECS increases, and
'No food for our communist enemies'
With these words uttered in front of the television cameras, the police stopped the parents of students locked up in Yonsei University from bringing food and medicine to their sons and daughters. The final
After two weeks of bluster and evasion, the ACTU Council has officially absolved itself from all responsibility for the actions of angry workers at Parliament House on August 19.
In a cowardly and dishonest statement issued from its September 2-4
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