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National anti-Bush protests

Across Australia, people are planning to travel to Canberra to protest against US President George Bush's visit to Australia, likely to be in the few days after October 21. Solidarity protests are also being planned in a number of cities. Planned so

CPSU/CSA members hold stopwork

BY RUSSELL PICKERING PERTH — A lunch-time mass meeting of 1000 public service employees on September 17 voted to begin an industrial campaign in support of better pay and conditions after Premier Geoff Gallop government's refusal of anything

VENEZUELA: Workers, peasants mobilise

BY CHRISTIANO KERRILA "Organise yourselves and we will give you the political and economic support" was Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's advice to the revolutionary movement in his country. Workers and peasants in Venezuela are heeding it. The

News briefs

Forum marks Chile coup BRISBANE — On September 11, 100 people attended a "People's Forum" to mark the 30th anniversary of the military coup which overthrew left-wing Chilean president Salvador Allende. Greetings were given to the gathering by

Residents fight Collex waste dump

BY SIMON TAYLER SYDNEY — Local residents in the heavily populated Auburn-Clyde-Granville area, in Sydney's western suburbs, are fighting to stop the Collex corporation from opening a waste "transfer station" in Clyde. The dump has the backing of

UNITED STATES: Democrats forced to 'backflip' on undocumented workers

BY BARRY SHEPPARD SAN FRANCISCO — An important victory has been won by undocumented workers in California as a result of the recall election of Democrat governor Gray Davis. To avoid being recalled in the October 7 poll, Davis has reversed his

UNITED STATES: ILWU leader charged after police assault

BY SHANE BENTLEY Jack Heyman, business agent for San Francisco's Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), is one of 25 people charged with numerous offences following a brutal attack by Californian police on a peaceful

Canberrans organise against Bush

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS CANBERRA — The ACT Network Opposing War held a meeting on September 16 to organise the largest protest possible against the visit to Australia by US President George Bush planned for late October. The meeting, which 20

Queensland challenge to AMWU leaders

BY MARCE CAMERON BRISBANE — In a challenge to conservative union officials in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, AMWU metal division activists will stand for state and national conference delegate positions in the November union

Stolen wages: fighting for compensation

BY EMMA MURPHY In the first week of September, Lanora Jackson and her 12-year-old daughter Cassie drove masses of Stolen Wages Campaign postcards from Brisbane to Sydney and Melbourne, in a bid to build support and solidarity for the Queensland

WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: Revolt by poor countries causes collapse of Cancun summit

BY EVA CHENG On September 15, one day after the dramatic collapse of global trade talks at the World Trade Organisation's fifth ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico, US Senate finance committee chairperson Charles Grassley declared that while the

8000 teachers rally in Perth

BY CHRIS LATHAM PERTH — Eight thousand members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) attended a vibrant stop work meeting at Subiaco Oval on September 17, as part of a half-day stoppage to win a 30% pay rise over the next three years. Hundreds