Eva Cheng
Some 2000 workers and their retired counterparts from the Tieshu textile factory in Suizhou, Hubei province, staged an angry protest on February 8 denouncing the now-defunct plant's management for cheating workers of savings and benefits.
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Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
Prominent consumers' rights advocate Ralph Nader's decision to stand in the November US presidential election as an independent is freaking out Democratic Party and its liberal and leftist hangers-on. While claiming to
GEELONG — On February 24, 30 members of four trade unions attended an emergency meeting called to discuss a defence campaign for Craig Johnston, former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
Johnston goes to trial in
Michael Bull, Melbourne
Since its first meeting on February 10, the Defend Craig Johnston Committee has planned a range of activities to defend the former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).
Johnston is
Susan Price, Sydney
The death of 17-year-old TJ Hickey on February 15, and the subsequent explosion of community anger in Redfern — sparked by police provocation on top of decades of police violence and racism — has been seized upon by NSW
John Pilger
Once again, the neat, placid surface of white Australia is disturbed by those who owned and cared for this country and remain its internal exiles.
On February 15, a crowd of Aboriginal youths set fire to a railway station and fought
This week, the Socialist Alliance launched its Gender Agenda: A Charter for Women's Rights. The charter aims to put women's experiences, needs and aspirations up front in the political discussion and activity of the Australian left. It reflects and,
Mary Merkenich, Melbourne
On March 3, Victorian public school teachers and their colleagues from the Catholic school system will stop work for one day. This collaborative action is unprecedented and is a sign of the desperation that teachers feel
In this interview by Eduardo Jimanez Garcia, which first appeared in Alma Mater, the journal of the University of Havana, Mariela Castro Espin, the director of the Cuban National Institute for Sex Education (CENESEX), advocates an amendment to the
Sarah Stephen
Government policy that imposes ever harsher measures to "protect our borders" from desperate refugees doesn't just increase suffering, it kills.
The people-smuggling disruption program that Australia was central to establishing in
A Twist of Lemon DeliciousWritten by the Lesbian IdolsDirected by Louise FisherNew Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown, SydneyMarch 6-13Bookings (02) 9519 8958$15 per ticket
REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS
As part of the lead up to Sydney's gay and lesbian
Tariq Ali
The whole world knows that US President George Bush and British PM Tony Blair lied to justify the war, but do they know the price being paid on the ground in Iraq?
First, the blood price — paid by civilians and others every week. More
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