Jenny Long, Sydney
NSW teachers are disappointed with their 12% wage increase over two years, half of what they sought, and blame Premier Bob Carr's Labor government for being less than honest with the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) about
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Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader named long-time activist Peter Miguel Camejo as his vice-presidential running mate at a press conference in Washington, DC on June 21.
The announcement was covered by
David is a founder of the Moreland Peace Group and active in the anti-war movement. He is a union delegate with the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance and recently led a successful strike.
David played a key role in the S11 protests against the
Ghali Hassan
"Today you are free. The torture chambers and rape rooms have been shut down" — US Secretary of State Colin Powell, told Iraqi women on March 8, International Women's Day.
In one of the most secular countries in the Arab world,
Sam Watson is a well known Aboriginal leader and community activist based in Brisbane. Sam first became politically active as a high school student during the late 1960s, when radical students from across Brisbane used to gather outside the post
David Bacon
In a Service Employees Union hall in Boston, a hospital worker raises her hand. "If Saddam Hussein was such a bad guy", she asks, "why is the US enforcing his law banning unions in Iraq?"
Since January, workers like this orderly have
You can keep your camera's lens cap on but turn your tape recorder off.We'll tell you when you've heard enough. Inmates expect to be treated rough,shade your eyes, don't try to bluff. We'll tell you when you've seen enough.Don't talk to them they'll
Our Common Cause: June 30 is not a handover
June 30 is supposed to mark the "return of sovereignty" to the Iraqi people. But the make-up of the new government in Iraq makes it clear nothing will change. The new prime minister has been in the pay
Vivienne Porzoltz, a founding member of Jews Against the Occupation, and a member of the Australian Socialist Alliance, recently travelled to Palestine to take part in an international women's march for peace and justice. She spoke to Green Left
Sarah Stephen
The seven crew members on two boats that made up the Flotillas of Hope spent 28 days at sea, travelling a distance of 4000 kilometres, only to be threatened with arrest and turned away from Nauru on June 20, World Refugee Day, by six
Max Lane
Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appears to be the front-runner in Indonesia's presidential election, to be held on July 5. Some political analysts say he will win more than 50% of the vote, meaning there would be no need for a
Esther Anderson
"The scale of the tragedy in Darfur would be difficult to believe if it were not for the terrible fact that it is a reality. More than 1 million Sudanese from Darfur are existing — barely — in desperate circumstances ... This
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