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NSW CFMEU strategy I attended the June 22 "Stand Up and Speak Out" meeting at Parramatta Town Hall. Contrary to what your article [in GLW #631] reported, CFMEU NSW secretary Andrew Ferguson did not "urge caution, lest the right of entry of union
Jon Lamb On July 25, Lieutenant Colonel Lance Collins, a leading intelligence expert on East Timor and Indonesia, blew the whistle on the Australian Defence Force's intelligence manipulation and cover-ups in East Timor in 1999. Collins has also
BRISBANE — The US government faces "deficits" on a number of fronts in its occupation of Iraq, leading US peace activist Phyllis Bennis told a public forum at the Avid Reader Bookshop on July 27. The forum was sponsored by the Brisbane Social Forum
Alex Bainbridge, Toronto Two-hundred people, mainly academics and graduate students, participated in the first international anniversary conference of the California-based red-green journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism over the July 22-24
Sue Bolton Kevin Quill, a member of the Electrical Trades Union and a Pilbara Mineworkers Union activist at Hamersley Iron, described what happened when individual contracts were introduced in the Pilbara in the early 1990s. "Individual contracts
Kathy Newnam, Darwin Coalition Senator Nigel Scullion was given a cool reception at an "information session" he held in Alice Springs on July 26 in an attempt to sell the Coalition government's proposal to build a nuclear-waste dump near the town.
To the chagrin of right-wing media pundits in Britain, Karl Marx has been voted "greatest ever philosopher" by listeners in a five-week online poll run by the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time. The July 21 Weekly Worker reported that the In Our Time
Max Lane East Timor's local elections are now in their eighth month. In Aileu, close to Dili, the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) achieved second place after Fretilin, pushing the Democrat Party into third place. Overall, in the districts contested
Sarah Stephen If it's true that terrorists are driven by a hatred of Western "democracies" and liberal ideas, it's more than ironic that, in the wake of the London bombings, there is bipartisan agreement in Australia to step up security
Max Lane "The mobilisations on July 23 when Arroyo gave her state of the nation address to Congress were the biggest since the anti-Arroyo actions began", Sonny Melencio told Green Left Weekly by phone on July 27. Melencio is vice-chair of Bukluran
Students were brutally attacked and tear-gassed by police at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby on July 27, following a series of clashes over a new grading system at the university. A number of students sustained serious injuries
BRISBANE — "The trade union movement is facing the biggest challenge in its history" from the Coalition government's planned anti-union laws, environmentalist and former NSW Builders Labourers Federation secretary Jack Mundey said at the July 24