BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — On February 26, the Industrial Relations Commission rejected an appeal by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union against the termination of its bargaining period with Yallourn Energy.
The union had appealed
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BY TILLEY ELDERFIELD
SYDNEY — Expanding on its theme, "Women fighting for global justice", the Sydney West International Women's Day Collective has invited a Kerry Nettle from the Stop the Women's Jail campaign to address the Parramatta IWD
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — Mike Dwyer, past-president of the South Coast Labor Council and respected community activist in the Illawarra region, lost his 15-year battle with cancer on February 25. All those who knew him will be greatly
BY KATHY NEWNAM & REBECCA MECKELBURG
ADELAIDE — Declaring that "M1 will pick up where S11 left off in building the people's movement for global justice", M1 Adelaide served a "Notice of Closure" on the Australian Stock Exchange on March 1. The
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — Demands to cancel Third World debt and abolish multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation will feature prominently in M1 Alliance publicity for the May 1 blockade
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
MELBOURNE — The Democratic Socialist Party and Friends of the Earth have initiated a second "Global Action" conference to discuss corporate globalisation and the movement against it as a follow-up to the very successful
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — "The World Stage, Act I" is how the New York Times called President George Bush junior's February 16 military attack on the people of Iraq. Bush, the good ol' boy from Texas with little international policy
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Representatives of the Daewoo Motor workers' struggle committee and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions have launched an international campaign to arrest Kim Woo-Choong, former chairperson of the Daewoo group of companies. They
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — Every square inch of green space is precious in the overdeveloped, inner city ghettoes — which may be why 150 people turned out on February 24 to protest the building of more townhouses on one such area of green
BY ROWAN CAHILL
During September 2000, prior to the Sydney Olympic Games and the Melbourne S11 protests, the Howard government, supported by the ALP, passed the Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill, which clears the way
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
Between Two WorldsAt the National ArchivesKelsey Crescent, Millner, DarwinTuesdays and Wednesdays 9am-noon, until May 31Group bookings at other times by appointment
DARWIN — In 1939, the year Prime Minister John Howard was
REVIEW BY SUE BOLAND
Disaffected Democracies: what's troubling the trilateral countries?Edited by Susan J. Pharr & Roberto D. PutnamPrinceton University Press 2000362 pp, US$19.95
After declaring that "Democracy itself has triumphed as a result
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