Following the success of the June 30-July 1 nationwide union protests against the Howard government's proposed anti-union laws, in which up to 350,000 people participated, the ACTU executive has called a national day of protest action on Tuesday,
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Thank you supporters, we have raised nearly half our target!
Peter Boyle
In just three weeks of campaigning, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's supporters have raised $46,630 for the Emergency Appeal. This is a spectacular response.
Certainly, John Pilger's
Liam Mitchell
Employers are rubbing their hands with glee at the early Christmas presents PM John Howard's new industrial relations laws promise them.
The prospects of cutting labour costs, reducing or eliminating benefits such as long-service
On August 4, 90% of nurses went on strike across Fiji after the government failed to agree to agree to their demands. The nurses are demanding a wage rise and are refusing to accept a pay cut due to a recent overpayment. Labour minister Kenneth Zinck
Workers on all of Argentina's railroads, except the Buenos Aires subway network, went on strike on August 4, together with other sectors, demanding a salary rise. Engine-driver guild representatives warned that if there was no agreement in a week,
Marcus Pabian, Ciudad Bolivar
On August 3, our solidarity brigade group ventured out early to visit 16 young Indigenous students at the National Experimental University in Ciudad Bolivar.
As we arrived, a veteran indigenous leader was addressing
Norm Dixon
The Australian government's policy on global warming could be summed by a verse from Bobby McFerrin's facetious late-'80s hit song "Don't worry, be happy": "In every life we have some trouble/ But when you worry you make it double/ Don't
Bernie Stephens, Harare
The finding by UN Special Envoy Anna Tibaijuka that Operation Murambatsvina (drive out rubbish) — the bulldozing of informal settlements — has left up to 3.3 million Zimbabweans "deeper in poverty, deprivation and
In some countries, marriage-like laws recognise "registered partnerships" rather than "marriage" for same-sex unions. This is the case in Denmark, where, in 1989, same-sex couples were able to "marry" with the same rights as heterosexual couples.
The House of Saud — Covers the period from late 1973 when the Saudi Arabian oil embargo was affecting US military capabilities and its war in Vietnam, to the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and then the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. SBS, Friday, August 12, 2pm.
The Howard government is using the recent terrorist bombings in London as a pretext to reintroduce the idea of a national identity card. If this idea became reality, it would spell the death of civil liberties in Australia.
Coalition and Labor
John Pilger, London
The latest bombings in London have produced a strange political atmosphere here; I cannot recall anything like it. A truth is struggling to be heard. It is being said guardedly, apologetically. Occasionally, a member of the
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