By Jim Green
A shipment of mixed plutonium/uranium oxide (MOX) nuclear reactor fuel from Europe to Japan poses dangerous weapons proliferation, environmental and public health risks. There have been several shipments of high-level radioactive
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'Perfect place' for a waste dump
By Natalie Zirngast
DARWIN — Thirty people from Everyone for a Nuclear-Free Future (ENuFF) protested against federal environment minister Senator Robert Hill's presence here on July 30. The action involved
By Sean Healy
SYDNEY — The NSW coroner's report into the death in custody of a young Aboriginal man, James Brindle, has highlighted the urgent need for alternatives to incarceration for minor offences. Yet politicians are strengthening their "law
It is possible that Governor Tom Ridge will sign a new death warrant for Mumia Abu-Jamal soon, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. The move is motivated by the state's desire to force Abu-Jamal's legal team to file for a writ of habeas corpus
By Jonathan Singer
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union has announced it will establish an industry-wide trust fund to pay workers' sick leave, annual leave, long service leave, severance pay and other accruable entitlements. The AMWU is also
By Jonathan Singer
After Patrick Stevedores sacked its work force (all members of the Maritime Union of Australia — MUA) in April 1998 to try to force the union out and cut jobs, Australian workers began industrial action that was not ordinary.
By Norm Dixon
Workers turned out in huge numbers in Turkey's capital, Ankara, on July 24 to oppose government moves to "reform" the country's social security system. Turkey's right-wing coalition government, elected in May on a wave of anti-Kurdish
National student league formed in Indonesia
By Max Lane
JAKARTA — On July 9-12, delegates representing 19 student activist committees met to form a new national student organisation, the National Student League for Democracy (LMND).
Indonesian trade union leaders to tour
By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY — Plans are well under way for the national speaking tour, from August 8, of Indonesian trade union leader Dita Sari. Dita's tour, organised by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and
Academics strike at UNSW
By Bea Brear
SYDNEY — Classes at the University of New South Wales were cancelled on July 28, the third time this year, because of industrial action by academic staff. Since October, the National Tertiary Education
Shared space #3
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The vilest deeds like prison weedsBloom well in prison air:It is only what is good in manThat wastes and withers there ..."Oscar Wilde, from The Ballad of Reading Gaol This is the third in a series of
By Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — Ten thousand construction workers jammed the streets in a march from Sydney Town Hall to NSW Parliament House on July 28. Andrew Ferguson, state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU),
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