[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union
seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation.
This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP,
has been an
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BY KAMALA EMANUELÂ
HOBART — Four hundred nurses rallied on the Parliament House lawns
on May 25 to protest the failure of the state Labor government to live
up to an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) under which all nurses with
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — Striking workers at the Dayson compressor maintenance plant in Rydalmere have rejected a management offer of a 4% pay increase in August and a further 2% in December, as part of a non-union agreement.
The workers have
GLW #494 incorrectly stated that Doug Cameron is the national president
of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. He is the national secretary.
GLW apologises for the error.
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ALP ranks respond to mass pressure on refugees
The rumblings in the ranks of the ALP about the partyÂ’s disgusting sell-out
of refugees are increasing. In Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria,
ALP state conferences passed motions
BY EVA CHENG
The rulers of India and Pakistan — both nuclear-armed allies of Washington in the US-led "war on terrorism" — are terrorising each other with the threat of nuclear war.
The Pentagon estimates that a full-scale nuclear exchange
BY SUE BOLTON
The ballot for the position of national secretary of the Australian
Manufacturing Workers Union food and con- fectionary division has still
not been decided. The ballot closed on May 20 and counting was carried
out on May
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — Supporters of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly are once again having to defend their right to distribute the papers in public space. The latest attack on that right has come from Mindil Beach Sunset Markets Association (MBSMA).
GLW
[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — A non-violent blockade of a meeting featuring immigration minister Philip Ruddock, extreme right-wing Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt and anti-immigration academic Bob Birrell was violently attacked by police in front
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Media-monitoring group Electronic Intifada has released a report by Nigel Parry into media coverage of the April 2-May 10 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, during which seven Palestinians were killed, and
BY NEVILLE SPENCER
SYDNEY — On May 31, Cuba solidarity activists set up a Free the Cuban Five Committee with aim of supporting the worldwide campaign to free five Cubans sentenced to long prison terms in the US on espionage charges.
The five
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