BY KATRINA BARBEN
BRISBANE — Industrial action by workers at the Australian Communications Exchange has led to a significant breakthrough in negotiations, management agreeing in advance to implement a Queensland Industrial Relations Commission
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SEOUL — The protests against the Asia-Europe parliamentary meetings (ASEM) on October 20 (O20) in Seoul were very lively, youthful and colourful (see GLW #425). However, they also reflected the most pressing problems facing the South Korean left
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"Suharto had promised to build foundations that would secure Indonesia's future. Instead, he bequeathed his people a house of cards".
This is
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Protesting community members in East Kalimantan were violently attacked by the Indonesian Mobile Police Brigade (BRIMOB) on October 8. Seven protesters were shot, several were seriously wounded, and two were declared missing. The violence ended a
Part two of a three-part eyewitness report on the protests against the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting in Prague in September
by Russian socialist BORIS KAGARLITSKY. Part
one was published in the previous issue of Green Left
Women rallied across Australia on October 27 to "Reclaim the Night" and protest against violence against women.
In Sydney, Lauren Carroll Harris reports, 1000 women and children assembled in Hyde Park for the rally, which was kicked off with a
BY NADYA STANI
SYDNEY — Gwen and Joan have spent the day at the Paralympics being inspired by the athletes. "They're just terrific", said Joan. Mitchell, who brought his son with him from Orange in western NSW, said he takes the Paralympics
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The Jubilee 2000 anti-debt coalition has condemned the practice of "vulture funds", private hedge funds which buy Third World countries' debt cheap and then sue for full repayment, after one such fund received a one-off $58 million payment from Peru
Hundreds of people confronted the world's most powerful finance ministers during three days of protest against the October 24-25 meeting of the G20 in Montreal.
Protest organisers said the G20 — which includes the Group of Seven richest
BY SUE BOLAND
A few months ago, federal minister for workplace relations and small business Peter Reith told a meeting of the Financial and Treasury Association (SA branch) that "political correctness" in the media meant that businesspeople were
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