BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — An important victory has been won by undocumented workers in California as a result of the recall election of Democrat governor Gray Davis. To avoid being recalled in the October 7 poll, Davis has reversed his
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BY DOUG LORIMER
Two weeks after Prime Minister John Howard denied that his government had received requests from Washington to increase the number of Australian troops in Iraq, he announced on September 8 that US President George Bush had accepted
BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH — Eight thousand members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) attended a vibrant stop work meeting at Subiaco Oval on September 17, as part of a half-day stoppage to win a 30% pay rise over the next three years. Hundreds
BY MARCE CAMERON
BRISBANE — In a challenge to conservative union officials in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, AMWU metal division activists will stand for state and national conference delegate positions in the November union
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
BY CHRISTIANO KERRILA
"Organise yourselves and we will give you the political and economic support" was Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's advice to the revolutionary movement in his country. Workers and peasants in Venezuela are heeding it.
The
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
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