Bronwyn Jennings, Melbourne
One hundred delegates and council members attended the Australian Education Union's Victorian state conference on July 16.
Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Brian Boyd condemned Howard's planned industrial
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At a joint press conference with British PM Tony Blair in London on July 21, Australian PM John Howard was asked by an Australian reporter working for the pro-war Murdoch press: "Yesterday an Australian bomb victim of July 7 linked the bombings to
Doug Lorimer
The day after his landslide victory in the Kyrgyzstan's July 17 presidential election, Kurmanbek Bakiyev told a press conference the presence of a US military base in the Central Asian republic should be reconsidered. Bakiyev was the
July 28
1941: Several unions hold 24-hour strike protesting the banning of the Communist Party of Australia.
July 30
1936: General strike in Bangladesh protests the killing of demonstrators.
1921: The Communist Party of South Africa is
Garry Preston
The Australian trade union movement and workers' rights are under attack in a way unseen in this country before. But one only needs to look across the Tasman to see what can happen to workers' rights and conditions under a right-wing
On July 2, the Workers Charter movement was founded in Auckland, New Zealand, by a group of left, union and social justice activists. The following is a draft charter for discussion and feedback.
Every worker has the right to dignity, which our
The Age of Commodity: Water Privatisation in Southern AfricaEdited by David A. McDonald and Greg RuitersEarthscan, 2005303 pages, $55 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
One billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water and two billion
PM John Howard's proposed industrial relations "reforms" include changing the way minimum wages are set to keep them low.
The government wants to replace the Australian Industrial Relation Commission's role in setting the minimum wage with a new
In a midnight raid on July 21, Zimbabwean police forcibly removed hundreds of homeless people from churches in Bulawayo, taking them to the Hellensvale transit camp, set up to house those made homeless by the government's crackdown on illegal
I wrote recently in this column about the seemingly strange fact that many of the wealthiest Australians report being dissatisfied with their lives in general and even with the state of their finances in particular.
For example, a greater
Stuart Munckton
Broadcasting his weekly Hello President television show live from a newly worker-run cacao processing plant, on July 15 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced plans to expropriate privately owned companies that have been closed
Liam Mitchell, Sydney
A recent case of workers being forced to sign AWAs has ended with a victory after a two-and-a-half week campaign by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU).
When workers at Masterton Homes were told they
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