BY EVA CHENG
Hard on the heels of the US House of Representatives' May 2 approval of a bill containing a mammoth US$249 billion, six-year package of farm subsidies, the US Senate endorsed the legislation on May 8. US President George Bush has given
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In Italy, one man with wealth valued at over $25 billion has major influence over 90% of all television stations. He also owns newspapers, magazines and video outlets. Now, he is running a campaign to strip away the rights of Italian workers.
This
BY MELANIE SJOBERG& JOHN MCGILL
Connie Frazer died, aged 76, on May 6 after a struggle with breast cancer. She was a poet, a feminist and a member of the Democratic Socialist Party.
Connie's presence will be missed from the Adelaide political
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — On May 6, Anne Duggan, the Victorian training officer of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was ordered by Commissioner Terence Cole to give the royal commission into the building industry the
BY CHRISTINA SACCO
WOLLONGONG On May 3, the Land and Environment Court gave Stocklands
Construction permission to restart its development of Sandon Point. The
development, which had been halted by a court injunction, now looks set
to go
and ain't I a woman: US 'aid' used to deny right to choose
What does the United States government have to do with deciding whether women in Nepal can access safe abortion services? Well, everything.
Even though the sovereign state of Nepal
The Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), the militant
trade union federation, organised mass actions across the country on May
1. Pro-democracy groups joined the workers' rallies.
The workers' demands included legalising
Manufacturing Workers Union, firefighters, maritime unions, Graham Matthews, Communist Party of Australia, the Socialist Alliance, Treasury Gardens, Nikki Ulasowski, Unions WA, Fremantle, peace and justice, Wollongong's May Day march, Jim Tannoch,
BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK
DARWIN The fourth solidarity brigade to East Timor organised by
Action in Solidarity with East Timor/Action in Solidarity with Asia and
the Pacific will leave for Dili on May 13.
We will be helping build a well in
BY ALISON DELLIT
On May 8, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee delivered its report on the package of "anti-terrorist" legislation currently before the Senate. The committee proposed a series of amendments to the legislation
Kautsar, chairperson of the Acehnese Peoples Democratic Resistance Front (FPDRA), attended the second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference in April to build support for the Acehnese people's struggle for self-determination. Kautsar spoke
Because Grandmagrew old twiddlingthumbs, hands clasped, eightfingers locked together neatas a carpentry join,thumbs barreling roundand round, over andover in useless activityreleasing the blocked energy— the hint was there.
Yet I lived without
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