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UNITED STATES: Why AMFA represents future for mechanics at United Airlines

BY MALIK MIAH & RICH LESNIK SAN FRANCISCO — Mechanics and utility workers at United Airlines face a new representation election. The standoff pits the incumbent union, the International Association of Machinists, against the upstart Aircraft

Action updates

M1 assessed BRISBANE — Fifty people packed the Resistance Centre on May 5 to hear speakers on the M1 (May 1) blockades of Australian stock exchanges and the next step for the anti-corporate globalisation campaign. Tim Stewart from the M1

PALESTINE: Eight months of resistance

BY REEM HALAWANI As the Palestinian intifada enters its eighth month, the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon remains intransigently against granting any concessions to the Palestinians. Instead, it has escalated its attacks on the occupied

An open letter to all CPA members

BY PETER PERKINS   I was disappointed and disgusted at the ideas expressed by Rob Gowland in a recent article of the Guardian newspaper on the M1 protests [see accompanying box — Ed.]. Many of the opinions that have been put

Seraiki National Party to attend Easter conference

BY JOHN PERCY SYDNEY — The Seraiki National Party from Pakistan has accepted an invitation to attend the second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, scheduled for here at Easter 2002. The conference will be the first time

Beattie accused of 'kneejerk reaction' on dingo culling

BY JIM McILROY BRISBANE — John Jones, spokesperson for the Dalungalee Aboriginal traditional owners of Fraser Island, accused Queensland Labor Premier Peter Beattie of a "kneejerk reaction", after the state government ordered the immediate

Incat workers choose the less bad option

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — "Workers had a gun at their head." This was how Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organiser Greg Cooper described the circumstances surrounding the vote workers employed by the Incat boat-building company on May

Pine Gap crucial to 'Star Wars' plan

BY EVA CHENG Australia was singled out for praise by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld twice on May 7. That his praise came five days after US President George W. Bush's declaration of support for the National Missile Defence scheme was no

Higher education on the GATS chopping block

BY VIV MILEY As if the federal government wasn't enough of a threat to Australia's crisis-ridden tertiary education system, an agreement currently under negotiation in the World Trade Organisation's Geneva headquarters could enforce the further

loose cannons

The mouth of a tiger? "What is safer than being in the hands of the police?" — Malaysian deputy national police chief Jamil Johari, responding to accusations that people arrested under the Internal Security Act have been mistreated. Also?

Police attack Burma protest

BY DAVID GOSLING CANBERRA — Supporters of democracy in Burma were attacked, and several injured, by police here on May 4 when they attempted to burn a Burmese flag outside the military regime's Canberra embassy. The 80 protesters were calling

Business to dominate CHOGM

BY ZANNY BEGG After the spectacular success of the M1 mobilisations many activists are turning their attention towards the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane, October 6-8, and the Commonwealth Business Council meeting in