Sue Bolton, Melbourne
On February 2, 40 members and officials from 10 unions in Victoria founded the Defend the Unions Committee to coordinate resistance to the federal Coalition government's planned attack on union rights — its industrial
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Jan Lacey, Australia Asia Worker Links coordinator for the Stolen Wages Project, died on January 17.
Jan was born in Melbourne into a working-class family. She started working in retail when she was young and later went to work at Leeds Dyeworks in
Farooq Sulehria
On February 1, Kathmandu witnessed another government dismissal — the 14th government change in as many years.
In May last year, Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa resigned following weeks of street protests by opposition groups
Selena Black, Sydney
On February 11, hundreds of building workers were sacked in Sydney and Queensland by the collapsed company Walter Construction Group.
Walter went into receivership on February 1 and many more of its 1000 employees are likely
Doug Lorimer
"I call on all religious and political powers that pushed towards the elections and took part in them to issue an official statement calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of the occupation forces from Iraq", Moqtada al Sadr, the
Barry Healy
A new and extensive investigation into Haiti's human rights situation has found that conditions in the country have sharply deteriorated since the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was snatched from the country by US forces in
On January 20, more than 10,000 secondary students from 18 schools in Quito took to the streets, demanding access to concession fares and student cards. Organised by the Federation of Secondary Students of Ecuador, the students have declared their
The following is abridged from a call issued by a group of Melbourne activists, who can be reached at <wajpp@yahoo.com>.
In March, Israeli president Moshe Katsav will tour Australia. We are calling upon all concerned with the systematic
BRISBANE — A Socialist Alliance forum on February 8 screened videos on the history and current stage of the Acehnese national liberation movement, and heard two speakers recount stories of recent upheavals and past conflict.
Coral Wynter
During Easter, refugee-rights activists will converge on the Baxter Immigration Detention Centre near Port Augusta, South Australia, to protest against the ongoing human rights abuses of asylum seekers. Green Left Weekly's Virginia Brown spoke to
BRISBANE — The new wave of struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia that began in the 1960s was launched by the Freedom Ride led by Charlie Perkins in February 1965, Murri activist Sam Watson told a solidarity night at the Jagera Centre,
SYDNEY — On February 12, exactly 40 years after the legendary 1965 Freedom Ride, 200 supporters farewelled the Freedom Ride 2005 bus as it departed from Sydney University to follow the original route. After a welcome to Gadigal Land of the Eora
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