BY TIM GOODEN& SUE BULL
DELHI — Workers are locked out of a car manufacturing plant, scabs are brought in and workers are told to sign individual contracts before they can return to work. The new contracts require workers not to participate in
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On October 29, 26 million Brazilians voted for municipal governments in cities where no candidate had won an absolute majority after the first round of voting on October 1. Brazil's left-wing Workers Party (PT) won 13 of the 16 cities where it had
Maqsood Alshams was released from Sydney's Villawood Detention in April after 16 months of imprisonment and abuse. He was interred under Australia's racist mandatory detention policy for asylum seekers.
Maqsood sought asylum in Australia because he
BY PETER BOYLE
Hundreds of commemorations of the first anniversary of the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are being organised for around November 30.
In Seattle, the street protests outside, and the activities of
More than 60,000 municipal workers around South Africa on November 15-17 staged strikes and marches to oppose the privatisation of local government services being pushed through by mainly African National Congress-controlled councils.
In
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — With the ACT Liberal government targeting public spaces such as nature reserves, ovals, lake shores and parklands for privatisation, nearly 400 people rallied in opposition on November 18. Community groups from across
BY DAVID BACON
SAN FRANCISCO — Their hands sewed the clothes you're wearing, and the ones in your closet. They picked the vegetables on your plate and cut the meat in your refrigerator. These hands stuffed chips into the motherboard of your
The following are remarks made by US Greens presidential candidate Ralph Nader to the National Press Club on November 8:
The Green Party is alive and well. This campaign has established the Greens as a viable political force. We are now third
BY SANA KAMAL
AMMAN — The outcome of the “emergency” Arab summit convened to adopt
a unified Arab position towards the Palestinian uprising did not come as
a surprise to most Arabs. But it was a great disappointment to those who
had hoped
BY PETER BOYLE
The new movement against corporate globalisation has been built around a series of mass civil disobedience actions dogging the gatherings of some of the main institutions of global capitalism. As a result, these institutions are now
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
Canberra — The Burmese embassy will be the site of a demonstration on November 30, the deadline set by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for forced labour to end in Burma.
The ACT Trades and Labour Council (TLC) will
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