The collapse last week of trade talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Cancun, Mexico, has re-focused attention on the US-Australia negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). On September 14, trade minister Mark Vaile
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BY SHANE BENTLEY
Jack Heyman, business agent for San Francisco's Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), is one of 25 people charged with numerous offences following a brutal attack by Californian police on a peaceful
BY AHMAD NIMER
As the current Palestinian uprising enters its fourth year, many commentators appear puzzled by the duration and tenacity of the intifada (meaning "shaking off").
If the intifada was "orchestrated" by Palestinian Authority (PA)
BY DALE MILLS
It didn't take long for post-9/11 "anti-terrorism" legislation to be used against protesters in Britain. Police used powers under section 44 of the Terrorism Act to stop and search protesters during demonstrations outside of Europe's
BY EMMA MURPHY
In the first week of September, Lanora Jackson and her 12-year-old daughter Cassie drove masses of Stolen Wages Campaign postcards from Brisbane to Sydney and Melbourne, in a bid to build support and solidarity for the Queensland
BY EVA CHENG
On September 15, one day after the dramatic collapse of global trade talks at the World Trade Organisation's fifth ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico, US Senate finance committee chairperson Charles Grassley declared that while the
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BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — "If you do this recall, you may create a problem that you won't get over for a long, long time. This spreads instability and uncertainty among [California's] people and people around the country."
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BY JORGE JORQUERA
Venezuelan student leader Alvaro Guzman explained the revolutionary process underway in his country to hundreds of people at public meetings in Brisbane, Canberra, Newcastle, Wollongong and Sydney during the second week of his
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — More than 800 schools were shut down in NSW on September 17. The 24-hour strike also closed colleges and TAFEs across NSW, as tens of thousands of primary, secondary, TAFE and trainee teachers took part.
The industrial
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SUVA — The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) and Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy (ECREA) in Fiji on September 16 supported calls for a consumer boycott of products made by the Fiji government-owned Pacific Fishing
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