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BY
JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — More than 3000 Electrical Trades Union (ETU) members
met at Dallas Brookes Hall on January 22 to endorse a new enterprise bargaining
agreement (EBA).
The EBA, negotiated between the ETU and the main employer
Greens I
Bill Weller (“Write On”, GLW #521) asks why, if the Greens are doing
so well, and are so progressive, would the Socialist Alliance (SA) field
candidates against them? While the Greens play a valuable role in profiling
BY JON LAMB
NEWCASTLE — Miners at the United coal mine 16 kilometres west of Singleton and several other pits in the Hunter region are preparing to step-up industrial action to improve wages and conditions.
"At United, the miners accepted a
BY NORM DIXON
The US National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) has issued a call for a national one-day student strike to demand "Books not bombs! Stop the war against Iraq" on March 5.
US President George Bush's "administration is
BY STUART MUNCKTON
"We have burnt our boats. There is no turning back", Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared in a national broadcast on January 6. "We will carry on consolidating and deepening the revolution", the radical pro-poor president
BY
GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Recent emergency actions against war in Iraq show the
depth of anger against the Australian governmentÂ’s decision to back the
impending war against Iraq.
On January 19, more than 150 people joined a hastily
BY PETER BOYLE
Police raided the Kuala Lumpur office of malaysiakini.com, a progressive and independent web site, and seized computers on January 20. Ten hours later, while a protest vigil was being held outside the office, the site was up again,
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — At lunchtime on January 20, 200 women sat on the steps of Victorian Parliament House wearing bras on the outside of their t-shirts in protest against war on Iraq.
The action was organised by the prominent actor
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — "We come to work standing, walking and talking, but with the current safety conditions, we could leave work in a pine box", the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) organiser Alan Paton, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly.
Workers on
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — In the largest anti-war protest since the peace marches of the Vietnam War era, some 200,000 people filled the streets here on January 18. Demanding "No war against Iraq", the demonstrators were a representative
BY EVA CHENG
Australia's right to draw up or maintain non-profit-oriented social policies will be under threat from the "free trade" agreement (FTA) that the Coalition government seeks to make with President George Bush's US administration. Formal
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