BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — Striking workers at the Dayson compressor maintenance plant in Rydalmere have rejected a management offer of a 4% pay increase in August and a further 2% in December, as part of a non-union agreement.
The workers have
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ALP ranks respond to mass pressure on refugees
The rumblings in the ranks of the ALP about the partys disgusting sell-out
of refugees are increasing. In Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria,
ALP state conferences passed motions
GLW #494 incorrectly stated that Doug Cameron is the national president
of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. He is the national secretary.
GLW apologises for the error.
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BY EVA CHENG
The rulers of India and Pakistan — both nuclear-armed allies of Washington in the US-led "war on terrorism" — are terrorising each other with the threat of nuclear war.
The Pentagon estimates that a full-scale nuclear exchange
BY SUE BOLTON
The ballot for the position of national secretary of the Australian
Manufacturing Workers Union food and con- fectionary division has still
not been decided. The ballot closed on May 20 and counting was carried
out on May
[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — Supporters of Green Left Weekly are once again having to defend their right to distribute the papers in public space. The latest attack on that right has come from Mindil Beach Sunset Markets Association (MBSMA).
GLW
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — A non-violent blockade of a meeting featuring immigration minister Philip Ruddock, extreme right-wing Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt and anti-immigration academic Bob Birrell was violently attacked by police in front
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Media-monitoring group Electronic Intifada has released a report by Nigel Parry into media coverage of the April 2-May 10 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, during which seven Palestinians were killed, and
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON Soon after New Labour came to power in 1997, the then foreign
secretary, Robin Cook, announced an ethical dimension to British foreign
policy. He said that the government will not issue an (arms) export licence
if
BY NEVILLE SPENCER
SYDNEY — On May 31, Cuba solidarity activists set up a Free the Cuban Five Committee with aim of supporting the worldwide campaign to free five Cubans sentenced to long prison terms in the US on espionage charges.
The five
BY EVA CHENG
Anticipating he would not be able to get parliamentary approval for a six-month extension of the state of emergency in place since November 2001, on May 22 Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba dissolved the parliament and called
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