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BY BRONWEN BEECHEY ADELAIDE — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union has claimed victory after a strike at Mobil's Port Stanvac refinery. The strike was part of a long-running dispute with Mobil over plans to reduce the work force at Port
BY KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — Following the overwhelming success of Adelaide's M1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange, more than 500 people joined the annual May Day parade here on May 5. A spirited contingent of Socialist Alliance members
BY ALISON DELLIT As the 2001 federal election approaches, immigration minister Philip Ruddock has signalled that the government intends to make racist scapegoating of refugees a central part of its re-election strategy. Launching the
BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — Long-distance truck owner-drivers have blockaded major transport depots on Brisbane's southside, and have forced major companies to sign up to improvements in payments and conditions, according to Transport Workers Union
BY NORM DIXON  Television viewers across the world could be forgiven for believing that rural Britain has been struck down by a plague of biblical proportions. Nightly, as the foot and mouth disease (FMD) “crisis” unfolded, breathless
BY SEAN HEALY A major international trade union confederation has told the World Trade Organisation that, in its view, the trade body has learned nothing from the defeat of attempts to launch a new, comprehensive round of trade talks at its last
REVIEW BY JOHN TRACEY BRISBANE — Theresa Creed has just recorded her first album, Unfinished Business, at Ando's Kitchen recording studio on the Gold Coast. It will be released through 4ZZZ's Zedhead Records later this year. Creed was born at
Getting Justice Wrong: Myths Media and CrimeBy Nicholas CowderyAllen & Unwin, 2001$19.95 BY KAREN FLETCHER Law and order politics have been the ticket to success for many an ignorant and talent-less politician or media "commentator". A really
Enlightenment or control A few years ago Clifford Stoll wrote The Cuckoo's Egg, an account of his attempts to track down some network hackers taking advantage of university computer networks to look at low security US military sites.
BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — Thirty-five people, including members of the Indigenous Student Network from New South Wales and ACT, Arbunna elder Kevin Buzzacott and elder Ray Jackson, attended the newly formed Indigenous Solidarity Action Collective
BY EVA CHENG Five hundred Chinese workers in Israel have been on strike since late March, demanding they be paid two years' worth of unpaid wages, even though Chinese authorities have threatened them with seven years' imprisonment if they
Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil WarBy James K. HopkinsStanford University Press, 2000 474 pages, $44.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON It was a desperate time. It called for desperate measures. When General Franco, aided