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Write on: Letters to the editor

Bradbury film In seeing David Bradbury's new documentary film Fond Memories of Cuba on opening night, I was thoroughly disappointed with its simplistic and muddled portrayal of Cuba from such a renowned left-wing filmmaker. To a less informed

Aluminium workers exposed to health risk

BY ROWAN STEWART GEELONG — On June 28, 600 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Electrical Trades Union and Australian Workers Union members and contractors from the joint Alcoa and Kaal aluminium smelter and rolling operations at Point

Commission puts conditions on Southwood

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — The controversial Southwood woodchip mill proposal was approved by Tasmania's Resource Planning and Development Commission on July 3. Despite onerous conditions imposed by the commission, Labor Premier Jim Bacon's

INDONESIA: Wahid, Sari call for 'people's congress'

BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — On June 25, the Jakarta Media Centre was packed to overflowing. Former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) and Dita Sari, the most prominent labour movement figure in Indonesia, were going to speak on the

Nationalise the insurance industry!

BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS HOBART — On July 2, the Tasmanian branches of the Socialist Alliance called for the nationalisation of the insurance industry to solve the insurance crisis. The announcement was a response to the July 1 suspension of

First anti-US protest in Kabul

More than 400 Afghans protested outside the United Nations compound in Kabul on July 4, according to the BBC. The demonstration was against the July 1 US bombing raid in the country's south-west that slaughtered at least 40 people, possibly

Mother pleads for her son

BY DAVE McKAY WOOMERA — A 34-year-old Iranian nurse recovering in the Woomera town hospital from a near-fatal suicide attempt inside Woomera detention centre, has sent a message to well-wishers promising that she will continue to seek ways

Skilled six workplace motion

[This is a model motion unionists can move in their union to support the AMWU leaders under attack.] That [workers/unionists from this workplace/meeting] note the role played by the leadership of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing

News briefs

AMWU members defend their union GEELONG — On June 28, a meeting of 150 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members from Alcoa's Port Henry aluminium smelter discussed the state and federal governments' attacks on the leadership of

UNITED STATES: Waterfront showdown looms

BY SHANE BENTLEY The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which covers 10,500 waterfront workers (known as longshoremen) on the US west coast, is headed for a showdown with the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) after the ILWU's

Loose cannons

Could have been the wedding cake "We are aware of reports of civilian casualties, but don't know if casualties were caused as a result of the bomb." — Pentagon spokesperson Lieutenant Comm- ander Jeff Davis, commenting on the US military's July

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