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BY EVA CHENG Existing arrangements for nuclear arms control were placed in jeopardy on May 2 when US President George W Bush announced his plan to go ahead with the long-mooted "Son of Star Wars" National Missile Defence scheme. In choosing to
Thirteen DaysDirected by Roger DonaldsonWritten by David SelfWith Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood and Steven CulpAt major cinemas REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE For two weeks in 1962 the sights of the world's largest superpower were trained on a small
While efforts by the state to mount a lawsuit against Indonesia's former dictator collapsed ignominiously last year, the PRD has succeeded in taking Suharto and 12 other generals to court for the unlawful arrest of its members in 1996. This is the
BY MALIK MIAH & RICH LESNIK SAN FRANCISCO — Mechanics and utility workers at United Airlines face a new representation election. The standoff pits the incumbent union, the International Association of Machinists, against the upstart Aircraft
Under the headline "Murdoch supports May Day — Oh yeah!", Rob Gowland wrote in the May 2 edition of the Guardian, weekly paper of the Communist Party of Australia: "On Friday, April 27, The Australian, flagship of the Murdoch press and a paper
BY REEM HALAWANI As the Palestinian intifada enters its eighth month, the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon remains intransigently against granting any concessions to the Palestinians. Instead, it has escalated its attacks on the occupied
BY JIM McILROY BRISBANE — John Jones, spokesperson for the Dalungalee Aboriginal traditional owners of Fraser Island, accused Queensland Labor Premier Peter Beattie of a "kneejerk reaction", after the state government ordered the immediate
BY JOHN PERCY SYDNEY — The Seraiki National Party from Pakistan has accepted an invitation to attend the second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, scheduled for here at Easter 2002. The conference will be the first time
M1 assessed BRISBANE — Fifty people packed the Resistance Centre on May 5 to hear speakers on the M1 (May 1) blockades of Australian stock exchanges and the next step for the anti-corporate globalisation campaign. Tim Stewart from the M1
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — "Workers had a gun at their head." This was how Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organiser Greg Cooper described the circumstances surrounding the vote workers employed by the Incat boat-building company on May
BY LINDA WALDRON MELBOURNE — Six hundred Bradmill workers seized the opportunity presented by the re-enactment of the first sitting of federal parliament in Victoria's Parliament House on May 10 to mobilise to save their jobs. They demanded to
BY VIV MILEY As if the federal government wasn't enough of a threat to Australia's crisis-ridden tertiary education system, an agreement currently under negotiation in the World Trade Organisation's Geneva headquarters could enforce the further