BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Engineering Union organised a protest outside the South Korean consulate on June 20, in solidarity with the Korean Construction Transportation Trade Union, which organises
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Tuerkan Uzun, the editor and owner of a company which publishes an anti-capitalist newspaper and pamphlets in Turkey, faces prosecution in the country's State Security Court for breaching the country's anti-terrorist law.
Uzun has been charged for
BY BRONWYN JENNINGS & TRISHA REIMERS
The collapse of insurance giant HIH, the relocation of an Arnotts factory from Melbourne to Brisbane, and rumours of plans by retail company Target to relocate its head office from Geelong to Melbourne have
By Sophie Williams & Belinda Selke
"The shameful events of yesterday had nothing to do with democracy or individual freedoms." That was how NSW Premier Bob Carr described the June 20 trade union blockade of the NSW parliament imposed to stop his
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — "We got conned", South Coast Labor Council secretary Arthur Rorris told council delegates at a June 22 meeting to discuss the campaign against the New South Wales government's attempt to dismantle workers'
SAN FRANCISCO — Every time you think there is real progress in race relations in this country something ordinary occurs that tells you otherwise. Chicago's mostly white Catholic athletic league recently refused to allow the mainly black St. Sabrina
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — At its June 18 meeting, the O3 to CHOGM Alliance unanimously decided to organise an S11-style three-day blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum from October 3 to 5. The CBF is meeting in Melbourne before the
BY SEAN HEALY
Queensland and federal police and the Australian Defence Force are readying for one of their largest-ever domestic operations: to protect the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which is being held in Brisbane in October.
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"Before S11, I was just getting a taste of the extent to which the planet and its inhabitants have been hurt. S11 was a taste of something better: people, lots of people joining together for the common good, not individual gain. That was symbolic of
German Greens
Congratulations to the very well-informed articles by Jim Green about the rotten German Greens. I almost wrote a letter in regard to his first article (GLW #444) because I felt that some enlightenment about the deeply bourgeois nature
BY MAX LANE
On June 15 the Indonesian police kidnapped eight members of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and occupied and ransacked the PRD's West Java office. The PRD activists remain in police custody in Bandung and so far have been denied
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Revelations from the troubled ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) indicate that the Australian Public Service is becoming increasingly de-unionised.
CPSU members in Canberra were astounded to see
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