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Council caves in to right-wing Vietnamese

John Percy SYDNEY — Fairfield City Council has caved in to pressure from the right-wing Vietnamese Community in Australia (VCA) and agreed to the group hoisting the defunct flag of the old Saigon regime on council land on three occasions each

NSW combined delegate meetings

John Gauci, Sydney At the April 27 Unions NSW meeting it was reported that four Sydney-based combined delegate meetings would take place at the following locations: May 18, 10am — Masonic Centre, Sydney and Blacktown RSL; lMay 15, 10am —

NEPAL: Anti-monarchy struggle at a crossroads

Eva Cheng Seeking to break the increasingly explosive momentum of nearly three weeks of continuous mass protests and strikes despite shot-to-kill military curfews, on April 24 Nepal's King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah announced on national television

Our Common Cause: Bad medicine: The Accord process repeats

One hundred and fifty years ago, on April 21, the eight-hour-day movement began in Australia when stonemasons and building workers marched through Melbourne. The young working class of this country proved its industrial worth as one trade after

Legal action for West Papuan refugee

Law firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques has taken legal action against the Howard government to force it to make an immediate decision on the application for refugee status of David Wainggai, the only one of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who arrived

SOUTH AFRICA: 'We guard billions, but are paid peanuts'

Leo Zeilig, Johannesburg Brian Mfisa starts work at 6am each day for the international security firm Chubb. He guards a large house in the wealthy suburb of Melrose in Johannesburg. Brian sits in a small wooden box — a "guard hut" — that is

Rum Jungle: opposition grows to new mine

Justin Tutty, Darwin If Compass Resources gets its way in the Rum Jungle region, the site of the Northern Territory's first and dirtiest uranium mine, the future of the NT town of Batchelor looks bleak. Rum Jungle is very close to Browns Cut where

VENEZUELA: Revolutionary unionists get organised

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas A March 30 meeting of almost 1000 Venezuelan trade unionists decided to organise a national congress in May of the National Union of Workers (UNT) — the major national confederation of militant and

Discriminated against for a visual impairment

Duncan Meerding While blindness and low-vision services are quite advanced in Australia, many people with a visual impairment are out of work. Often this is due to a boss's dogmatic belief that people with a visual impairment cannot work as

'Let's fill the streets this May Day'

Chris Williams, Wollongong Being part of the May Day protests this year is more crucial than ever, south-coast trade union legend Fred Moore told Green Left Weekly. "This year we've seen the most devastating industrial laws come in; our very

March against racism in Sydney's west

Graham Matthews, Sydney A community rally and march against racism will be held in the western suburb of Auburn on June 3. The rally was initiated by the Socialist Alliance and has so far been endorsed by the Reid Greens, the Stop the War

Ben Harper: expressing the anger from the US

Both Sides of The GunBen HarperVirgin Records REVIEW BY DUNCAN MEERDING "You whip the back of freedom till it bleeds an oil streamAnd you sailed down upon it in your killing machineOld men who send children off to die in vainThey will hear