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EAST TIMOR: Workers confront discrimination, poor conditions

EAST TIMOR: Workers confront discrimination, poor conditions DILI — As workers prepare to celebrate their first May Day in a free East Timor, their pay and conditions of work remain very low, especially compared with the vast sums paid to foreign

Red flags fly in Canberra

Red flags fly in Canberra BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — With prominent contingents from the Australian Education Union, the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, and Members First, the rank-and-file group in the Community and Public Sector

Members First challenges Caird to repay money

Members First challenges Caird to repay money BY STUART MARTIN CANBERRA — The national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), Wendy Caird, has been challenged to repay union money spent on a glossy brochure sent to all

NIGERIA: Violence erupts as Shell begins operations

NIGERIA: Violence erupts as Shell begins operations Police and military forces swept into K. Dere, a village in Nigeria's Niger River delta, on April 11, in response to peaceful protests against the efforts of Royal Dutch Shell to restart its

UNITED STATES: Protests begin to clarify anti-globalisation debates

UNITED STATES: Protests begin to clarify anti-globalisation debates WASHINGTON — The militant and youthful protests here, to coincide with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) meeting on April 16-17, dramatised the profound

Adelaide bus services go private

BY ERICA HAINES ADELAIDE — The South Australian Liberal government hoped to have Adelaide's bus services driving smoothly on the privatisation highway from April 23. Instead, the venture only shuddered along. The government chose the Easter

ACI backs down on lockout

ACI backs down on lockout BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — In a major backdown, ACI has ended its 18-week lockout of workers at its glass mould manufacturing plant in Box Hill. Workers met on April 19 and voted to accept a new enterprise agreement

Kakadu destruction 'world's best practice'

BY JIM GREEN The federal government submitted a report on the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory to the United Nations' World Heritage Committee (WHC) on April 15. The government was called on to explain what progress it had

Solidarity with Russian workers

Solidarity with Russian workers A protest vigil called by International Solidarity with Workers in Russia outside the venue of the Russia 2000 Expo in London on April 19. Two days earlier, ISWoR supporters demonstrated against President Vladimir

ALP machine dumps MPs

ALP machine dumps MPs BY STAN THOMPSON ADELAIDE — South Australian ALP delegates have dumped three members of parliament during a special Easter convention to pre-select candidates for the next state and federal elections. Former deputy state

RUSSIA: Supreme Court upholds Nikitin acquittal

MOSCOW — The Russian Supreme Court on April 13 confirmed the St Petersburg City Court's December 29 acquittal of Aleksandr Nikitin, accused of espionage for writing about the dangers of Russian nuclear submarines. The appeal by the prosecutor's

Looking out: Without my ID

Without my ID BY BRANDON ASTOR JONES Regular readers will know that once a year I share this space with a fellow prisoner. Last year the poet was an Anglo-American who cited how many families abandon their relatives in prison.