A call to all welfare recipients, welfare-rights organisations, union members and unions to unite for justice on June 28.
We are facing a major assault on all working people in Australia — paid workers, unemployed people and those who are not
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Sue Bolton
It took very little time for the federal government's lies about Work Choices to be exposed. Many workers were sacked on the day Work Choices came into operation, immediately revealing that the new law's sole purpose was to screw
Jenny Richards
Mexican state police unleashed a wave of terror on
the towns of San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco, about 25 kilometres north-east of Mexico City, after residents staged highway blockades on May 3 in solidarity with 60 flower vendors
Dipankar Bhattacharya, the general-secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), has recently been charged with attempted murder for his role in leading a 2001 march against mass killings by the BJP-led government of Jharkhand state.
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
The second national congress of the National Union of Workers (UNT), the main progressive union federation in Venezuela, was suspended on May 27 after factional divisions led to a walkout by groups representing a
Fred Fuentes
Chanting "Too young to vote, so hear us yell! Work Choices go to hell!", more than 500 young people, most of them high-school students, marched in Sydney on June 1 to protest against the Howard government's attacks on young workers
Zoe Kenny
In the face of mounting public pressure, PM John Howard announced on June 2 that the federal government would not sell its 13% share in the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme. Shortly after Howard's announcement, the NSW and Victorian
Jeffrey Wilson, Sydney
Political economy students at Sydney University are organising against discriminatory policies in the economic and business faculty that under-fund departments teaching primarily HECS students (who repay their university fees
Melissa Hughes & Pip Hinman
On the May 15 edition of ABC TV's Lateline, Northern Territory Crown Prosecutor Nanette Rogers went public with reports of violence and abuse of children in NT communities. She cited cases that were "beyond most people's
David Spratt
"The peace movement" is one of those odd phrases: it means everything to everybody, and often nothing in particular.
While opposition to war, militarism and the global arms race are common threads, practically speaking "peace"
Glory for the few, poverty for the many
"A quarter-century after Deng Xiaoping broke with communist orthodoxy, telling his countrymen 'To get rich is glorious', China has a burgeoning class of tycoons. The country has produced seven billionaires
Sue Bull, Melbourne
Anonymous late-night phone calls, threats of jail for non-appearance at interviews or for withholding information, allegations of illegal conduct at events up to two years previously and closed courts — such police-state
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