BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — "We got conned", South Coast Labor Council secretary Arthur Rorris told council delegates at a June 22 meeting to discuss the campaign against the New South Wales government's attempt to dismantle workers'
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BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — At its June 18 meeting, the O3 to CHOGM Alliance unanimously decided to organise an S11-style three-day blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum from October 3 to 5. The CBF is meeting in Melbourne before the
SAN FRANCISCO — Every time you think there is real progress in race relations in this country something ordinary occurs that tells you otherwise. Chicago's mostly white Catholic athletic league recently refused to allow the mainly black St. Sabrina
"Before S11, I was just getting a taste of the extent to which the planet and its inhabitants have been hurt. S11 was a taste of something better: people, lots of people joining together for the common good, not individual gain. That was symbolic of
BY SEAN HEALY
Queensland and federal police and the Australian Defence Force are readying for one of their largest-ever domestic operations: to protect the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which is being held in Brisbane in October.
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German Greens
Congratulations to the very well-informed articles by Jim Green about the rotten German Greens. I almost wrote a letter in regard to his first article (GLW #444) because I felt that some enlightenment about the deeply bourgeois nature
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Revelations from the troubled ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) indicate that the Australian Public Service is becoming increasingly de-unionised.
CPSU members in Canberra were astounded to see
BY MAX LANE
On June 15 the Indonesian police kidnapped eight members of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and occupied and ransacked the PRD's West Java office. The PRD activists remain in police custody in Bandung and so far have been denied
BY NOREEN NAVIN
Despite incredibly short notice it was inspiring to hear the Labor Council call for a blockade of parliament. It reminded me of the unity and successes of S11 and M1 where we collectively demonstrated the power of people and the
Women have suffered disproportionately under the military rule of the Taliban. Since 1994, the Taliban regime has terrorised the people of Afghanistan, especially women and girls, imposing harsh decrees forbidding women from leaving their homes
BY KYLIE MOON
Behind closed doors in its Geneva headquarters, out of view of the public eye, the World Trade Organisation is currently negotiating the expansion of GATS, the General Agreement on Trades in Services. The product of extensive
By Kylie Moon and Chris Atkinson
Since the November 1999 siege of Seattle a new movement has come
onto the world stage, the movement against corporate globalisation. This
was sparked by the victory in Seattle of stopping a new round of
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