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Legal action for West Papuan refugee

Law firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques has taken legal action against the Howard government to force it to make an immediate decision on the application for refugee status of David Wainggai, the only one of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who arrived

Rum Jungle: opposition grows to new mine

Justin Tutty, Darwin If Compass Resources gets its way in the Rum Jungle region, the site of the Northern Territory's first and dirtiest uranium mine, the future of the NT town of Batchelor looks bleak. Rum Jungle is very close to Browns Cut where

SOUTH AFRICA: 'We guard billions, but are paid peanuts'

Leo Zeilig, Johannesburg Brian Mfisa starts work at 6am each day for the international security firm Chubb. He guards a large house in the wealthy suburb of Melrose in Johannesburg. Brian sits in a small wooden box — a "guard hut" — that is

Discriminated against for a visual impairment

Duncan Meerding While blindness and low-vision services are quite advanced in Australia, many people with a visual impairment are out of work. Often this is due to a boss's dogmatic belief that people with a visual impairment cannot work as

VENEZUELA: Revolutionary unionists get organised

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas A March 30 meeting of almost 1000 Venezuelan trade unionists decided to organise a national congress in May of the National Union of Workers (UNT) — the major national confederation of militant and

'Let's fill the streets this May Day'

Chris Williams, Wollongong Being part of the May Day protests this year is more crucial than ever, south-coast trade union legend Fred Moore told Green Left Weekly. "This year we've seen the most devastating industrial laws come in; our very

Ben Harper: expressing the anger from the US

Both Sides of The GunBen HarperVirgin Records REVIEW BY DUNCAN MEERDING "You whip the back of freedom till it bleeds an oil streamAnd you sailed down upon it in your killing machineOld men who send children off to die in vainThey will hear

March against racism in Sydney's west

Graham Matthews, Sydney A community rally and march against racism will be held in the western suburb of Auburn on June 3. The rally was initiated by the Socialist Alliance and has so far been endorsed by the Reid Greens, the Stop the War

PHILIPPINES: International investigation into labour killings

Delegates from 12 countries, including Australia, will visit the Philippines in early May to investigate the killings of union leaders and the repression of worker activists. Some of the cases to be looked into include the recent killing of United

More action needed to defeat Work Choices

Sue Bolton Large protests in France, Nepal, Indonesia and the Solomon Islands over the last few weeks have forced back-downs from their respective governments. Can Australian workers do something similar and force the Coalition to withdraw its

IRAN: No pay-off yet for Washington's UN manoeuvres

Doug Lorimer The veto-welding permanent members of the UN Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the US — remained divided over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program following the council's receipt on April 28 of a report from

Racism by any other name

Live and BecomeWritten and directed by Radu MihailenauWith Yael Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Mosche Abebe and Sirak M SabahatScreening nationally REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE AND LACHLAN MALLOCH Romanian-Franco Jewish writer-director Radu