BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — Daewoo's Bupyong factory recommenced operations on March 7 under the guard of 8000 riot police. As 80 buses took workers into the factory about 200 laid-off workers attempted to block them. All were detained by the police.
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Tahiti's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru was re-elected mayor of the working-class city of Faa'a, near Tahiti's international airport, with an overwhelming majority in the municipal election held March 10-11.
Temaru's election is a big boost
Imagine you are sitting your year 12 exam. Girls sit at the tables with pink-coloured test papers, while boys sit at the tables with the blue test papers. It may sound ridiculous, but this is exactly what is being proposed by the president of the
[Sometimes we can find] out who people are by listening to the music
and rhythm they carry in their speech, and theorizing that we are not really
who we are when we are perfect in grammatical sentences (which I think
of as a form of
Finding the enemy
Who is the enemy? This is a dilemma for the US military chasing funding
in a post-Soviet era of peace dividend.
In Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll's dramatic account of intrigue
and interference in data networks
HOBART — On February 24, Greens Senator BOB BROWN endorsed the May 1 (M1) protests against corporate tyranny. The protests will be held around Australia and target the Australian Stock Exchange. "M1 is a way of expressing the need for us to close
MELBOURNE — Feminist and socialist activist SURMA HAMID, from the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights, has been active in the campaign to close Australia's immigration detention centres. In February, she was detained by Greek immigration
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the PreposterousBy Nick CohenVerso, 2000247pp, $35(pb)
"I appreciate there were some people who voted for us who thought we would make a difference. They didn't understand" —
BY MARGARET PERROT
WOLLONGONG — The sacking of Dr Ted Steele from Wollongong University has attracted a great deal of media attention in the past month. Much less well known is the university's treatment of Green Left Weekly journalist and
BY ANA KAILIS
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has announced that it will carry out a "marginal seats campaign" during the next federal election, which is expected before the end of the year. But are such campaigns a winning strategy for the
BY JEFF HALPER
TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon's governing coalition, embracing both Labour's Shimon Peres and hard-line rejectionists, exposes the contradictions in the conventional left-right distinctions in Israeli politics.
Over seven years after
PARIS — In the last decade France has provided some of the most important examples of workers' capacity to struggle against the power of capital, and in December the small French city of Nice was added to the list of the sites of struggle against
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