Unionists set upon by cops, then lawyers
BY ALANA KERR
SYDNEY — Having failed to keep construction union officials out of enterprise agreement negotiations at its Rooty Hill factory on July 7, giant construction parts company CSR has now
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Derogatory and insulting
"George Wallace, Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond became regional leaders, not in spite of, but because of, their overt appeals to our racism. And no matter how much we try to look the other way and pretend that [it is]
Police close Aboriginal concert
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — Police have been accused of racism after 12 officers raided the Melbourne Hotel in the suburb of West End on July 7, shutting down a National Aboriginal and Islander Day of
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — While it poses as the heroic opponent of federal government support for genetically modified organisms, the Tasmanian Labor government is yet to take any concrete measures against it, or even against controversial
Up to 120,000 East Timorese are still languishing in refugee camps throughout West Timor 10 months after the post-referendum rampage by the Indonesian military and their pro-integration militia proxies forced around 290,000 East Timorese across the
ARGENTINA: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo attacked
The following statement was issued by Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo on July 3 to support groups around the world. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo campaigns for the disappeared. In the early hours of
NOWSA vox pops
Evelyn, NSW: I've always had an interest in feminism, and when I came to uni I joined the women's collective there straight away ... There should have been more workshops [at NOWSA] on organising actions.
Sharon, Vic: I first
PAKISTAN: Journalists appeal for help
LAHORE — Police raided the Lahore Press Club on July 10 in an attempt to arrest a small traders' leader holding a press conference inside the building. Twenty-four journalists who sought to deny the police
The spectre of Frantz Fanon
DURBAN, South Africa — July 20 is the 75th anniversary of Frantz Fanon's birth but his spirit lives on. A few days after McDonald's opened its first branch here, some large and bold graffiti appeared on the
Students, staff demand VC resignation
BY ROHAN PEARCE
HOBART — Students and staff at the University of Tasmania have called for the resignation of the vice-chancellor, Don McNichol. One hundred and fifty students and staff marched on the VC's
Spotlight on Indonesia
Right to form unions
The Indonesia House of Representatives passed a bill on July 10 easing restrictions on workers' right to form unions.
The law also allows public servants to form and join unions; for decades they were
Unionists oppose unjust world economic order
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
The protests in Seattle and Washington against the global corporate rich have become a catalyst for activity in the struggle for a more humane and just world. In Melbourne on
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