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CPSU delegate purged for militant stand

Nick Everett, Canberra On September 7, long-time Community and Public Sector Union activist and delegate to Unions ACT council Paul Oboohov was removed from the CPSU's delegation to the council. Oboohov was also disendorsed as a CPSU representative

Leonard Peltier in his own words

My Life is My Sun Dance: Prison Writings of Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier is one of the United States' longest-serving political prisoners.

Write on: Letters to the editor

Cuba and psychiatry Rachel Evans' rejection of drug therapy (Write On, GLW #640) is akin to blaming all industrial technology for ecological destruction. The most enlightened country, Cuba, uses psychiatric drugs such as the generic version of

CDU attacks student union

DARWIN — The Charles Darwin University Students' Union has been hit with a pre-emptive strike from the university management as it tries to beat PM John Howard to the punch in starving the student union of funds. The university administration is

BRITAIN: Union federation declares solidarity with Venezuelan revolution

On September 14, 1500 delegates representing 6.7 million workers unanimously voted to express their support for Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution and the National Union of Workers (UNT). The motion was presented by the university and college

Traditional owners reject nuclear dump

ALICE SPRINGS — The traditional owners of one of the federal government's proposed nuclear dump sites — on Arrernte land 25 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs — say they don't want poison from Sydney's Lucas Heights nuclear reactor brought

US peace activist deported as threat to 'national security'

Dale Mills Like a scene from a James Bond flick, 36-year-old Texan-based peace activist Scott Parkin was picked up on the streets of Melboune at lunchtime on September 11, while he was at a cafe. He was arrested by six immigration officials and

KOREA: Hotel tries to smash union

The Korean Federation of Service Workers' Unions (KFSU) is continuing its battle against the union-busting campaign by Hotel Riviera in Daejeon City, which began in August 2004 when the hotel's owners, the Shinan Leisure Corporation, closed the

VENEZUELA: 'Tremendous courage against the odds'

In Caracas, Green Left Weekly's Kiraz Janicke spoke to Gregory Wilpert about the developing revolutionary process in Venezuela. Wilpert has been living in Venezuela for five years and is the editor of venezuelanalysis.org, an independent website

'Law and order' not justice

BRISBANE — "The prison system is racist and sexist, and we need to openly challenge it", Debbie Kilroy, director of the women prisoners support group Sisters Inside, told a public forum at the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre on September 10. The

Council in censorship scandal

MELBOURNE — Canberra's 18, a new work by artist Azlan McLennan, due to appear in the Platform exhibition space in Flinders Street Station, has been barred from exhibition by the Melbourne City Council. The work was to list the 18 "terrorist"

Students picket for free speech

NEWCASTLE — On September 16, 15 people held an anti-ASIO, pro-free speech picket in Hamilton. Members of the environmental collective at Newcastle University Students Association brought banners in the drizzling rain and gave out leaflets that