NOWSA vox pops
Evelyn, NSW: I've always had an interest in feminism, and when I came to uni I joined the women's collective there straight away ... There should have been more workshops [at NOWSA] on organising actions.
Sharon, Vic: I first
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BY JUSTIN RANDELL
BRISBANE — Activists here have described as a big step forward the July 7 merger of local anti-corporate groups into an S11 Alliance to plan and build local participation in protests against the World Economic Forum meeting in
NSW Labor's commuter chaos
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — "CityRail regrets to announce ...". Before the details are even out, you can feel the atmosphere on the platform thicken with anger and exasperation. What is it this time: signal failure,
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Spotlight on Indonesia
Right to form unions
The Indonesia House of Representatives passed a bill on July 10 easing restrictions on workers' right to form unions.
The law also allows public servants to form and join unions; for decades they were
Abortion doctors reinstated
BY MARY MERKENICH
MELBOURNE — The Royal Women's Hospital announced on July 10 that it would reinstate three medical workers suspended for performing a late-term abortion on a 40-year-old woman who discovered that her
MUNYARADZI GWISAI, a member of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) Zimbabwe, was elected to the national parliament in the June 24-25 general election as a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) MP. PETER MANSON, from the British Weekly
Derogatory and insulting
"George Wallace, Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond became regional leaders, not in spite of, but because of, their overt appeals to our racism. And no matter how much we try to look the other way and pretend that [it is]
Correction
In the last issue of GLW (#411), the article titled "Tasmanian upper house stymies land rights" includes comments from Clyde Mansell from the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. This is a different organisation from the Tasmanian
Students, staff demand VC resignation
BY ROHAN PEARCE
HOBART — Students and staff at the University of Tasmania have called for the resignation of the vice-chancellor, Don McNichol. One hundred and fifty students and staff marched on the VC's
Wildlife conservationists protest
SYDNEY — Activists from a wide range of environment groups gathered outside the Australian Museum on July 13 to protest against a NSW Liberal opposition proposal that endangered native animal species be conserved
ARGENTINA: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo attacked
The following statement was issued by Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo on July 3 to support groups around the world. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo campaigns for the disappeared. In the early hours of
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