When the government is preparing to wage a bloody war on the people of Iraq, which will result in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people;
When Australian corporate war-profiteers, like Qantas, BHP, and Dunlop, are set to
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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 BRONWYN JENNINGS
GEELONG — For several years, Victorians from all sorts of backgrounds have made an annual trek to Avalon, near Geelong, to view the acrobatics of dozens of international aircraft. It has become a family weekend for hundreds of
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 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 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
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
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
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It was almost better than sex, thought Eric Hobsbawm during the massive but last legal march of the German Communist Party (KPD)
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 JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
A firestorm swept through the western suburbs of Canberra on January 18, resulting in the deaths of four people, the destruction of 503 homes. Around 300 people had to be treated for burns and smoke inhalation and 60
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
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