SYDNEY — At a May 10 Defend Our Unions public forum at the Gaelic Club in Sydney, attended by 60 people, it was unanimously decided to launch a cross-union defence committee to oppose the federal Coalition government's anti-union laws.
The public
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On May 14, at least 2500 workers employed by Katexindo Citra Mandiri, went on strike to protest ill-treatment and unpaid overtime. Katexindo is an Indonesian-owned garment factory licensed to produce clothing for several famous US designer brands,
Barry Healy, Perth
Unity among rank-and-file members of different unions has beaten back an attempt by contractors hired by Alcoa to prevent unions from organising on the job.
One of the activists involved told Green Left Weekly that the Alcoa
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Graham Matthews, Sydney
"Blair was elected on 36% of the vote, with a voter turnout of just 61%, giving him the support of just 22% of the voting population", began David Golan, introducing his report on George Galloway's electoral breakthrough for
At least 10,000 pro-democracy protesters defied heavily armed Nepalese security forces on May 23 to support a seven-party alliance's call for the complete restoration of democracy by jamming the central Kathmandu market of Ason. The protesters,
A huge crowd of people attended a protest march in
the Tongan capital, Nuku'alofa, on May 26. The march was
organised by the Human Rights and Democracy Movement, which claims 20,000 people took to the streets. The demonstration took aim at the
Norm Dixon
"Equality, liberty, humanity, feminism, ecology" are the watchwords of Lalit, the revolutionary socialist party active in the Indian Ocean state of Mauritius. "Lalit nurtures a love of and respect for ordinary people, and gives value to
Socialist Alliance today welcomed one of its most prominent members, former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) state Victorian secretary Craig Johnston, back to freedom and to the looming struggle against the federal Coalition government's
On May 26, hundreds of teachers and pupils from St John's Primary School in Rochdale marched down the town's streets to the local Catholic church. The students held homemade signs, one reading: "Why send our friends to their deaths?". Many carried
May 27 was an important day for the union movement in Australia. It was the day that a unionist who will play an major role in the campaign to defend unions from the onslaught of anti-union laws — Craig Johnston — was released from prison.
In possible signs of a renewed attack on file sharing, on May 25 FBI agents simultaneously executed 10 search warrants across nine states to shut down Elitetorrents.org, a free members-only BitTorrent aggregate site hosted in the Netherlands.
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