BY REBECCA MECKELBURG
BRISBANE — The bitter industrial dispute in May over the use of underpaid, non-unionised labour on the CSL Yarra was reignited when the re-flagged ship, now called the Stadacona, returned to Australian waters.
The Maritime
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BY NORM DIXON
The national strike by the more than 110,000 members of the South African Municipal Workers Union entered its second week on July 9. In the face of mass arrests, police violence and a slander campaign by the capitalist media, South
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — On July 10, news broke that RMIT University has joined private prison operator Group 4 Falck to tender for the delivery of "educational and recreational sporting activities" to asylum seekers in Australian detention
BY CHRIS CAIN
When the Workers First team, headed by Craig Johnston, was first elected to lead the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) in Victoria in 1998, it was like a breath of fresh air coming into the union movement.
What the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"Four teenage boys are crouched in front of the TV, watching, listening, hanging on the words of the BBC reporter who is describing the carnage when US jets bombed a wedding party celebration in central Afghanistan... A slight boy,
Zionism
Philip Mendes contribution to the debate on the Israel/Palestine dispute is typical of the Israeli public relations machine. Ceaselessly and selectively dragging up past Palestinian transgressions.
Maybe the Mufti of Jerusalem
The survival and growth of Green Left Weekly can be attributed
to the commitment of those who support it, including those who distribute
the paper in their local areas. If you can take some copies of GLW
to distribute in your area, please call
and aint i a woman: NOW and the 'war on terrorism'
US President George Bush has not only used the September 11 terrorist attacks to launch an imperialist war drive, he has used the advantage they created to attack progressive organisations and
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON For 101 days, British Royal Marines have been engaged in
a farcical operation as mercenaries of the United States, whose lawlessness
now qualifies it as the world's leading rogue state.
Shooting at shadows, and
LONDON — Human rights activists on July 9 began 24-hour vigil outside Australia House in protest at human rights abuses at the Woomera refugee detention centre. Four hunger strikers positioned themselves in front of the building. The protest was
Museworthy: Afton Blommor (Evening Flower) for Par Lagerkvist
You asked our questionsWhen we could not have asked themBecause we did not know what would fulfil usBecause we did not know what to askThat you were forgotten is rightThat what you
UN award for Tampa seafarers
Wilhelmsen Line and the crew of the MV Tampa have jointly won a $100,000 award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for rescue on the high seas.
The Tampa's crew and owner were given the award for
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